Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy literacy, environmental policy, and human rights, and Founder of PTS Advance, a California based company.

Ronald advocates that energy literacy starts with the knowledge that wind and solar do different things than crude oil. Renewables only generate occasional electricity from unreliable breezes and sunshine but cannot manufacture anything for the eight billion on this planet, they just generate electricity.

Crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity but when manufactured into petrochemicals, is the basis for virtually all the products in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800’s.

From the versatility of more than 6,000 products developed and now made from petroleum derivatives manufactured from crude oil, and the manufactured fuels that supports militaries, space programs, infrastructures that did not exist prior to 1800’s, 50,000 merchant ship, 50,000 jets, and 1.4 billion vehicles worldwide, the world has had more than 200 years to develop a replacement for crude oil, as wind and solar cannot manufacture anything for humanity.

Until a crude oil replacement is identified, the world cannot do without crude oil that is the basis of our materialistic “products” society.

The main aspect of Ron’s publications is spreading awareness among the public about energy-related subjects to increase their energy literacy. Being an energy agnostic, he tries to engage people in conversations about intermittent electricity from renewables, and the products and fuels manufactured from fossil fuels that collectively support lifestyles and economies of humankind worldwide.

Ronald is a co-author of three books that focus on energy literacy, and an internationally published columnist, and speaker. His books are easily available from Amazon:

• The 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations - Helping citizens
understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support “clean” energy.
• The 2020 book Just GREEN Electricity – Helping Citizens Understand a World without
Fossil Fuels, and
• The 2019 book Energy Made Easy – Helping Citizens become Energy Literate.