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...
Category: Energy
Solar Energy Coming to Africa The revolution is underway
WASHINGTON – A few months ago, a photograph of a little Asian child sitting next to a city lamp...
Keystone Pipeline Is Dead – The Triumph Of Politics Getting more oil from Canada would have enhanced US energy security
WASHINGTON – Now it is official. President Obama announced that he is against the proposed Keystone pipeline that would...
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...
Where Is The New African Middle Class? Rosy predictions failed to materialize. Lack of basic resources like electricity prevent a real economic take-off
WASHINGTON – In a recent article focusing on why the African middle class is still rather small, The Economist...
Commodities Exporting Countries in Deep Crisis From Brazil to Australia there will be a lot of suffering
JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) – Renowned oil expert Daniel Yergin recently observed that the collapse of crude oil prices is...
Despite GOP Opposition, Iran Nuclear Agreement Here To Stay Too much international momentum behind pact. Almost impossible to reopen the issue
WASHINGTON – The acrimonious Washington debate about the Iran nuclear deal is mostly noise –and almost entirely for domestic...
Will Tesla Be The Electric Car Maker of The Future? The company has an absurd market valuation, while it keeps losing money. Does it matter?
WASHINGTON – Thank God, US IT tech companies are still in the lead. It is hard to match the...
Trouble Ahead For America The Stock Market did not crash, but America is not on solid foundations
WASHINGTON – May be we should not try to read too much into the Dow Jones 1,000 points plunge...
A Very Weak American Economy While the US economy remains very fragile, the presidential campaign is about "anchor babies"
WASHINGTON – The slow but steady decline of the US economy should be the main theme of this unfolding...