Climate Emergency?
By Paolo von Schirach WASHINGTON – Most sensible people would agree today that climate change due to global warming...
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Does America Need Nuclear Energy? Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) may be the answer to our need to have clean, affordable electricity
WASHINGTON – Can nuclear power come back as a cost-effective modality to generate electricity in America? Some scientists and...
China To Become Green Super Power? Will massive investments in renewables transform Chinese electricity production?
WASHINGTON – Many Western environmentalists and commentators openly praise China for its declared energy policy objective of turning itself...
Fight Global Warming With Disruptive Innovation – Not Mandates
WASHINGTON – The Paris event on climate change will probably yield nothing really concrete. The fact is that, despite...
Fusion: The Next Energy Revolution Abundant, cheap and emissions free energy for the world
WASHINGTON – TIME‘s cover story (November 2, 2015) has this tantalizing title: “Unlimited Energy. For Everyone. Forever. FUSION, It...
Obama’s Anti-Carbon Policies Will Have No Impact On Global Warming This is all about ideology. Most environmentalists are Democrats
WASHINGTON – President Obama is trying to transform the US energy industry via federal regulations. He just announced a...
Bill Gates: Fund High Risk Energy Ventures We need a breakthrough, real game changers that will perform better than carbon based systems
WASHINGTON – Here is what Bill Gates, (IT technology visionary, Microsoft founder, net worth about $ 80 billion), said talking...
New Technologies Will Make Carbon-Based Energy Obsolete Regulations and mandates will not work. Governments should invest much more in new R&D
WASHINGTON – The NYT recently had a front page (scary) story on global warming, accompanied by a frightening map...
Germany’s Green Energy Revolution Based On Belief, Not Economics The government is mandating the use of renewable energy, even though it is more expensive than fossil fuels. Will this bet pay off?
WASHINGTON – An interesting WSJ story, (Germany’s Expensive Energy Gamble, August 27, 2014), provides a good illustration of top-down...
Global Warming Is Real – Still, Do Not Force The Adoption Of Imperfect Renewable Energy, Put More Money into R&D Bjorn Lomborg argues that green energy will replace carbon based sources only when it will be economically viable
WASHINGTON – If we knew for sure that man-made global warming were accelerating at a dramatic pace, threatening an imminent...