Past the Global Peak in Oil Production
According to the International Energy Agency we are now past the global peak in oil production: http://www.iea.org/speech/2010/tanaka/AustraliaTanakaWEO2010.pdf This will change everything. And we are not prepared. Bookmark It
Ingrained Perception of Energy
Unfortunately, in the minds of most people, energy has become closely related to environmental issues. Reducing the use of energy has become something that environmentalists see as something that is favorable, and that we should work towards. In the future that is emerging this is only partly true. We need to make people aware of [...]
A Change Management Deja Vu
The development of energy technology, its increasing adoption, and the sudden realization that it is a very complex task to realize the value potential reminds me of a similar situation in the IT industry some ten years ago. Around the year 2000 many companies had invested in new integrated business systems, but after the implementation [...]
R.I.P. Hermann Scheer. A Beacon for the Prospects of Solar Power.
Please take the time to read this very informative article on Hermann Scheer. Writer Foretold World’s Solar Future More Than a Decade Ago. And of some of his fascinating insights, books, articles and attempts here to push energy forward and upward — not just by digging and drilling. How dangerous for such an intelligent species [...]
Congratulations GE Ecomagination Challenge Winners.
As most of you know, General Electric has been running a contest called the “GE ecomagination Challenge,” “…a $200 million innovation experiment where businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students share their best ideas on how to build the next-generation power grid – and just might get funded.” The process has be very interesting. What an effort [...]
What Happens as Cotton Prices Surge?
In the energy debate many people seem to assume that when oil prices increase oil will immediately be substituted by renewable energy sources. Now cotton prices increase dramatically, and there seems to be little evidence from the clothing industry that customers switch their preferences to wool, linen, nylon, perlon, or other alternatives to cotton in [...]
The Dynamic of Change
We tend to find it difficult to understand the dynamic of change. Maybe we think that it is easy for an individual to change behavior, beliefs, or life style once he or she gets a new insight. Like if someone receives information about the need to run large scale transformation programs in order to change [...]
