Green Sustainable Energy

As the world struggles with sustainable practices and policies regarding environmental protection, green sustainable energy is a key player. The chemistries involving energy production must be efficient, but also must evolve and change to meet new restrictions and footprint guidelines.

Dr William Nelson is an organic chemist, and has been involved with Green Chemistry since 1995. Growing up within a military family, he has been able to see many parts of the world, which heightened his commitment to preserving the natural environment and promoting sustainability through chemistry. He earned a doctorate in organic chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University, during which time he studied the synthesis and photobiology of analogs of the environmental carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene. Bill has worked in industry as a research chemist, in government (both Illinois, US EPA, and the US Army Corps of Engineers) in environmental protection and pollution prevention, and in education (teaching and directing research.) He currently is a Senior Research Physical Scientist doing contract work for US government involving organic synthesis and photochemistry.