Wanted: Industrialists in Global Energy Transformation
Over the past decades as sustainability experts have measured pollution, calculated emissions and driven the energy debate a large number of experts have gathered in fields related to sustainability. These experts have spent substantial amounts of time building knowledge about the problems that we are facing: Pollution, climate change, and, more recently, Peak Oil. We [...]
President Obama Sends Pro-GET Signal
The recent appointment of the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt has been interpreted as a general pro-business signal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/business/economy/22obama.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Jeff%20Immelt&st=cse The appointment can also be interpreted as a preparation for large scale energy systems transformation. Mr. Immelt has been one of the key individuals behind the organization American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org) that in mid-2010 published a [...]
The Unturned Stone
The issues related to comprehending the scope of large scale-energy systems transformation (as in, global), and the often intimidating web of management issues that arise, represent “The Unturned Stone” of the energy debate. The fear of what is under it, inherited from thousands of years of genetic human nature, keep many walking around, over, away [...]
How to Change?
The global economic system is extremely complex. At present everything that has a value in our economic system is based on the premise of continuous economic growth. At the same time economists around the world debate the opportunity to continue to have prosperity without growth, as in the present report from a project financed by [...]
Template for Energy Transformation Strategy in Transportation Fuels
Yesterday I wrote a template for the development of an energy transformation strategy in the transportation fuels area. This can be used by any country or region that wants to develop a transformation strategy and it includes a transformation and investment plan. When the strategy has been developed it can be used as a template [...]
Uncanny Thought
I often, while trying to communicate the perils of Peak Oil and the need for large scale planned and managed energy transformation programs, get the impression that the most important thing for people is to not think or take notice of any ideas that are new to them. Even people I have been talking to [...]
The Adoption of Novel Ideas
In the seminal book ”The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” the sociologist Thomas Kuhn for the first time described a non-linear process of innovation and adoption of scientific ideas. Since then it has become increasingly clear that the adoption of ideas in general in society is non-linear. In the first stage when a novel idea is [...]
