Mass Produced Electric Cars? Sooner Than You Think The cost of batteries is going down. EVs are becoming more affordable
WASHINGTON – The still unresolved issue that will determine if and when there will be real mass demand for Electric...
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Impossible to Bring Back To the US Old Industries –Focus On New Technologies The US outsourced the entire supply chain on which manufacturers rely. Imnpossible to bring it back to America
WASHINGTON – An interesting story in the WSJ focused on how some US companies are looking at the prospect...
Lockheed Claims Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough If this is true, we are on the verge of an energy revolution
WASHINGTON – I have observed in previous pieces that our long season of economic stagnation here in America (and...
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...
Chinese Experts Say That China Needs A Lot More Natural Gas – Not Renewables The focus is on cost effective alternatives to coal. And it is natural gas, not solar or wind
By Paolo von Schirach February 17, 2014 WASHINGTON – In the often schizoid US national debate on energy issues...
Cheap Energy Makes America More Competitive Europe is losing ground. Many energy intensive industries want to relocate to the USA
By Paolo von Schirach September 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Does cheap energy make a difference when it comes to...
If Solar Power Became Affordable, Developing Countries Would Be Transformed Lack of electricity is the main barrier to development. Building power plants and transmission lines is very expensive. Solar would generate power even in remote villages
WASHINGTON – When it comes to electric power generation and distribution, in developed countries we are used to this...
Cost Competitive Solar Power? Coming Soon, But Not Here Yet An FT story talks about a breakthrough that has not quite happened
By Paolo von Schirach August 9, 2013 WASHINGTON – The FT published a big spread on solar power, (A rising...
“Power Africa”: US Aid To Increase Electricity Production Finally Obama discovered that Africa needs electricity in order to have development. A long term commitment?
By Paolo von Schirach June 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Back in 1998, while working on an export promotion project in...
Natural Gas And Renewable Energy May Be Complementary – Major Study Cited By PennEnergy The Brattle Group indicates that in Texas wind power could work very well with additional power supplied by natural gas
By Paolo von Schirach June 14, 2013 WASHINGTON – It is obvious that abundant and cheap US natural gas...