A little bit of knowledge is dangerous, sometimes. This group may have members with a lot of knowledge in certain electrical and wind mill terms, words, configurations, names in the industry etc, but a good percentage may lack such knowledge.
Many drop by to get some information and many say that they are green with extremely low knowledge of the facts to even be dangerous in this estrange field of the renewable energy. I think that it is best to assume that the person communicating in this forum may have a very limited knowledge in the forum areas of interest, because if one goes to determine who knows and who does not know we could find that some of the members that may be participating in a continuous basis DO LACK basic knowledge of the principles involving renewable alternative energy production. Sometimes reading a message one may find the education level of the writer, that may have a good practical knowledge in the area of interest but the writer may be putting both feet in his mouth expressing terms, or principles. Normally, I tried to inform the writer, away from the forum, about some of those mistakes instead of embarrassing them openly. Regards and my 0,02 dollars. Nando ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 5:15 PM Subject: [microhydro] Getting journalists to understand the difference between energy and power > I suspect that he really did mean kWh. > > However, there is a much bigger issue. We have an uphill battle trying to > inform and educate journalists who write about energy matters without having a > clue about the difference between kW and kWh. Moreover if you are interviewed > on renewable energy matters by a magazine or newspaper journalist, as I have > been many times, they generally refuse to let you read their draft article, > claiming that you are trying to exercise censorship. I have been told this even > when I said that I just wanted to make sure that they got their facts right > and that they used the right terms to describe energy and power. Two of the > articles (Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle) were sufficiently > embarrassing to me (due to mistakes made by the reporters) that I stopped giving > interviews. > > Has anyone else in this group had a similar problem with the media? > > Regards, > > Jerome Weingart > Senior Energy Specialist > Energy and Environmental Management Division > International Resources Group, Ltd. > Washington, DC > > 703-524-8372 residential office phone and fax > 703-625-4428 mobile / voice mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
