Why it's kinda hard to be an environmental economist...
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You have to be some sort of science expert in the area that your researching. Case in point: Here I am, working on a presentation I have to give for my Environmental Mgt. and Policy class - on an alternative energy source. I have chosen to focus on Hydrogen Fuel Cells... for the purpose of transportation. I have an hour and a half, but if I went into both power generation and transportation it would be too much. So I'm sitting here reading these journal articles... and they're really scientific. I do not know what a GigaJule is (though, I'm sure I learned about it in high school.) I've read about electrolysis, but I still don't get it. All I want to do is find an article that proves that there are economies of scale in the industry... more specifically, increasing returns to scale ( - the cost of production decreases as the quantity produced increases.) Meh... I'm not a scientist. I don't want to get up there and explain some process that I don't fully understand... people will ask me questions, and I'll be unable to answer them.
On another frustrating note. I got my analytical writing score back from the GRE folk. Apparently, I'm not as good of a writer as I thought... or I just can't defend useless babble. I got a 3.5 on a scale up to 6. Last year I took it, wrote a shit story and got a 4. I was furious. It made me cry. I know I write well. I know I can defend an argument. I know I can write a paper. Meh... that's another stressor.
I am, however, enjoying my maps. Alright... I don't feel like writing anymore. I just wanted to get the whole science thing off my chest.
You have to be some sort of science expert in the area that your researching. Case in point: Here I am, working on a presentation I have to give for my Environmental Mgt. and Policy class - on an alternative energy source. I have chosen to focus on Hydrogen Fuel Cells... for the purpose of transportation. I have an hour and a half, but if I went into both power generation and transportation it would be too much. So I'm sitting here reading these journal articles... and they're really scientific. I do not know what a GigaJule is (though, I'm sure I learned about it in high school.) I've read about electrolysis, but I still don't get it. All I want to do is find an article that proves that there are economies of scale in the industry... more specifically, increasing returns to scale ( - the cost of production decreases as the quantity produced increases.) Meh... I'm not a scientist. I don't want to get up there and explain some process that I don't fully understand... people will ask me questions, and I'll be unable to answer them.
On another frustrating note. I got my analytical writing score back from the GRE folk. Apparently, I'm not as good of a writer as I thought... or I just can't defend useless babble. I got a 3.5 on a scale up to 6. Last year I took it, wrote a shit story and got a 4. I was furious. It made me cry. I know I write well. I know I can defend an argument. I know I can write a paper. Meh... that's another stressor.
I am, however, enjoying my maps. Alright... I don't feel like writing anymore. I just wanted to get the whole science thing off my chest.