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 [...]
Danish Energy Transformation at No Cost
The Danish government’s Climate Commission (Klimakommissionen) has delivered its report. This group of ten independent experts on renewable energy technology was formed in 2008 with the task of developing a plan for getting Denmark off its dependence on fossil fuels. The commission concludes that the Danish energy transformation can be made by 2050 and at [...]
A Sobering Thought About Telecom Growth Forecasts
In yesterday’s edition of the Swedish business daily DI the CEO of the global telecom giant Ericsson, Hans Vestberg, forecasts that in 2015 there will be 3.5 billion broad-band connections globally and in 2020 there will be 50 million. This tremendous growth projection is clearly based on the assumption that there will be growth in [...]
Electric Car Buzz
In case you missed it, Nissan’s electric car campaign is getting a great deal of buzz. In 60 seconds, they pretty effectively demonstrate how it’s possible to make a potentially lucrative business decision that also addresses the fossil fuels issue while potentially improving the environment. The polar bear seems to think so, too. Bookmark It
Switch of focus needed
Up until now the focus of politicians, business leaders, environmentalists, and energy experts has been on developing general purpose energy technologies, such as wind and solar power, electric cars and hybrids. Now we rapidly need to refocus. Each country is spreading research financing over too many technologies in parallell. Nations need to develop national energy [...]
Our riches don’t matter
People in developed countries may think that we are rich enough to be able to pay increasing amounts for oil and other types of energy as petroleum becomes increasingly scarce. Our riches, however, don’t matter much. In order for each individual country to maintain affluence and economic growth, we need to be able to maintain [...]
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