Sorting Things Out
More people than ever study the future. Most of them seem to have arrived at the conclusion that in the future we will have more of most of the things we see today: IT, communications, international travel, access to a large number of products and services. These people seem to have forgotten an important pre-requisite: [...]
Why No Call for Managed Transformation Programs?
ASPO provides the latest news about Peak Oil on its site. http://www.peakoil.net/ The lack of arguments in favor of managed transformation programs is conspicuous. Several sources high-light the alarming consequences of Peak Oil and it’s getting increasingly clear that the market mechanisms will not suffice to drive large scale energy transformation forward at a high [...]
Intellectual Honesty?
I’m currently reading Brian Greene’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos – Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality.” This is very interesting from a number of perspectives. Firstly, of course from the perspective of learning about the research frontier in physics, and how far physics have come in understanding and explaining the nature of reality [...]
GET Institute on Twitter
The Global Energy Transformation Institute is now on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/GETInstitute or under GETInstitute at Twitter.com. You are welcome to follow us or to let me know who you are. Bookmark It
DC Visit Created Excellent Contacts – Upcoming Visit to New York
My visit to Washington DC in June created a number of excellent contacts for GET Institute. As our research project ideas are becoming increasingly concrete we identify opportunities to finance the projects based on the contacts we have developed during and after the visit to DC. A new visit to the US is now in [...]
The Price Will Not Be the Main Problem
Many experts believe that a decrease in the oil supply will lead to higher prices, and that this will immediately reduce demand for oil, at little significant cost to the economy. A higher energy price will increase investments in renewable fuel technologies, which will at short notice increase the volumes of renewable fuels that are [...]
World-wide Lack of Insight into Decline in Oil Supply
In the previous posting I commented on the report of the Climate Commission (“Klimakommissionen”) that were appointed by the Danish Government in 2008. These eminent experts have been working for two years on their report that was published this week, and have, unfortunately, completely missed the important consequences of the decline in the global oil [...]
