Doing Nothing, or Very Little, is Not an Option
Despite increasing amounts of information about Peak Oil recently many people seem to think that we are on the right track and that climate change is the big problem. Sorry, we aren’t and it isn’t. We are increasingly falling behind and even people who understand this usually do not understand that we can do something [...]
Creating New Business Sectors and Sectors of Society
In most cases in the past sustainability has been driven by existing companies and organizations. Gradually a new research and consulting sector has developed that supplies knowledge and services, but the introduction of lower emission vehicles, unleaded fuel and white-goods free of freon have not created the need for large numbers of new companies or [...]
An Alternative Reason Behind the Financial Unrest
May the current financial unrest in part be due to the realization that oil is going to be short and that the only way to make up for this shortage will be to develop and implement renewable fuels on a large scale? Even if this is not yet the official explanation of the development in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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