Edward Rouse Pryor received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and studied graduate geophysics at Columbia University. He spent many challenging technical and management years at the Virginia Electric Power Co., the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation. As president of the Stonington Product Development Co., he participated in the development of an electric automobile. Now retired from the corporate world, he studies, observes, analyzes, thinks, writes, and lectures about our energy past and future.