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...
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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...
America Is Beginning to Use Domestic, Cheap Natural Gas As Transportation Fuel Idea pushed by the Pickens Plan. Shift will amount to cutting oil imports, while using a cheaper and cleaner domestic fuel
By Paolo von Schirach July 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – The only real bright spot in the otherwise uninspiring scenario of the...
“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...
Biased, Negative Reporting On UK Shale Gas Discoveries By Aljazeera TV TV network is owned by Qatar, a country whose only resource is natural gas
By Paolo von Schirach June 27, 2013 WASHINGTON – Talk about transparent bias. Al Jazeera TV has a vast...
Obama’s Speeches Not In Sync With America’s Deep Concerns Nuclear disarmament, gloabal warming are imporatnt issues but not on top of any list. Obama's grandiose pronouncements fall flat. President out of touch?
By Paolo von Schirach June 26, 2013 WASHINGTON – I notice a huge disconnect between the big concerns of the...
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...
If Carbon Energy Will Continue To Be Dominant, Why Not Mention Added Supplies That Can Come To the US From Canada? By relying on more oil from Canada, on top of added domestic production, "Hemispheric Energy Independence" is now a real possibility for America
By Paolo von Schirach June 2. 2013 WASHINGTON – The high brow The Atlantic news magazine devoted 12 long...
Once America, With Canada’s Help, Becomes Energy Self-Sufficient, Expect Major Geopolitical Changes This will be the end of the OPEC stranglehold. Expect Russia to suffer
By Paolo von Schirach May 2, 2013 WASHINGTON – Imagine this brand new scenario for world energy. America will start producing at...
US Oil Production Will Soon Exceed Imports – An Amazing Change Due To North Dakota Oil And Improved Energy Efficiency
By Paolo von Schirach March 21, 2013 NAIROBI – Below you can read a release from the US Department of...