Mr. Dick Lawrence
ASPO-USA World Energy Modeling Project
ASPO-USA co-founder
Dick Lawrence graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Physics. For most of his professional career, he worked for Digital Equipment designing graphics workstations, and later for Intel developing processors for cellphones and PDAs.
In 1986 he read the seminal work Beyond Oil by Gever, Kaufmann et al, which was his introduction to the Hubbert curve, the reality of depletion, and a wake-up call to a nation already addicted to oil. By 2001 the Internet and energy-related web sites made it possible to network with others around the world having similar concerns about our global industrialized civilization and its appetite for fossil fuels.
Dick attended annual ASPO meetings in Uppsala, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Pisa and Cork, Ireland. At the Berlin meeting, he presented a proposal for dynamic-systems modeling of world energy flow, for modeling future energy scenarios and as a tool for energy policy decisions. Modeling work commenced in 2007 and first results were presented at the ASPO-USA Houston conference that fall. In 2005 Dick co-founded ASPO-USA with 4 others from Colorado, Texas, and California, and they organized national conferences in Denver, Boston, Houston, and this year in Sacramento.
