South Africa’s Solar Boom
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party since 1994, is a...
Tag: Energy
US Nuclear Power Future: Small Reactors
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Could it be that the now moribund U.S. civil nuclear power sector...
The Vertical Urban Farming Revolution
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Soon enough the lettuce or kale that you buy at your favorite...
Uber Driverless EVs: The Urban Transportation Revolution
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The promise of electric vehicles, EVs, is that they will do away...
Will NAFTA Be Fixed? Will negotiations produce an improved free trade area in North America?
WASHINGTON – It is not a bad idea to look at ways to improve NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement...
Major Economic Reforms In Saudi Arabia? Prince Mohammed would like to see quick modernization. It will not happen
WASHINGTON – What is going in Saudi Arabia? Probably too much. We have now an odd stew of engineered...
Coal Consumption On the Rise in Asia Developing countries pick the cheapest fuel to produce needed electricity
WASHINGTON – The Paris climate talks may end up with new carbon reduction commitments made mostly by Europe and...
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...
Vertical Urban Farming Is About To Happen From Singapore to Japan, the USA and Europe entrepreneurs are growing crops in cities
WASHINGTON – Over the years farming has become much more efficient. It has been heavily mechanized. Therefore it is far less labor...
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...