Dr Philip Lloyd is a senior engineer with a wide range of industrial experience in both contracting and consulting. He also has returned to academic life and has spent much of the past 19 years in many aspects of the energy industry. Industrially, in recent years he has been deeply involved as the expert witness for the plaintiff regarding a major minerals processing plant which failed, before the International Court of Arbitration, and in the development of a major desalination project in Southern Africa. Academically he has been concerned with climate change, carbon capture and storage, and means for energising lower income homes.