Switch is a documentary film on global energy directed by Harry Lynch, produced and distributed by Arcos Films,[1] and featuring Scott W. Tinker, a geologist and energy researcher who runs the Bureau of Economic Geology, a 200-person research unit of The University of Texas at Austin.
It has been accepted by many environmental groups, government agencies, fossil and renewable energy companies and academic institutions.
With each type, he visits various facilities, talks to the experts in the Department of Energy, universities, and gives an analysis of each resource’s major pros and cons.
While coal and oil will continue to play a large role especially in developing countries, a global transition to where their alternatives become dominant will happen in about 50 years.
It’s almost shocking in the way it sidesteps the kind of issue advocacy made commonplace by filmmakers Michael Moore, Davis Guggenheim and the like.
Tech credits are tops, particularly the seamless editing and the often beautiful photography.” - Variety[12] "Tinker comes across as affable, reasonable, and unfailingly curious.
- Boston Globe[13] "Tinker takes us along for this beautifully shot ride, excellent in its details, and mixes a kind of gee-whiz wonderment at the way energy is produced with pithy, on-the-mark observations about the realities of those sources.
- TreeHugger [15] As of 2013, Switch is currently screening at university campuses as part of an energy awareness and efficiency program sponsored by the Geological Society of America.