Dave Evans

And I got to be honest with you, it's so much harder than I thought.

This growing up thing, we'd never get it done.

Well, it's in the mechanical engineering department.

I got my bachelor's of science in mechanical engineering, and there are two divisions of that department, the thermoscience division.

Some mechanical engineers burn things.

They're kind of the power and engine guys.

And some mechanical engineers make mechanisms that kind of, you know, bend and forge things, mostly out of metal.

So I ended up on the thermos side of the house, the guys that make engines, because I cared about the energy problem.

And my master's degree was in thermosciences.

So I graduated actually...

with a degree paid for by Chevron Research, the oil company paid for my master's degree, and I became a certified advanced energy technologist in 1976.

What did you want to do with this?

How did you want to make a difference to the world?

It was very simple.

I wanted to solve the energy crisis.

I had an absolute epiphany.

I was waiting in line at a store one day and there was a television playing up in the corner of the store and the news was on and gasoline had suddenly hit a dollar a gallon, a dollar a gallon, 1973.

And I said, that's got to stop.

We've got to get off this oil thing.

That's what I need to do.