Aug
20
The Giant International Pickpocket War
August 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
BusinessWire, a Berkshire Hathaway Company run by the famed Warren Buffet and Charles Munger has republished a press release from the Amazon Defense Coalition prepared and pushed out by Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications, a PR firm. The Hinton press release is a seriously skewed update on the Chevron side of the old Texaco [...]
Jul
24
Geothermal Energy Is the Most Efficient Renewable Energy Alternative and Improves Fastest
July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling, an expert in strategic management and technology and innovation management, and Melissa Esmundo are finding that the cost of generating electricity with geothermal or wind energy is a fraction of the cost of solar energy. More importantly the performance of both is improving much more per dollar of R&D invested [...]
Jun
8
Watching the Money
June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Global information provider New Energy Finance contracted by the UN’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says in “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009” that $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energycompanies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro.
Even without a deep exposure of how the numbers and the criteria for [...]
Feb
16
The Way to Lose Energy Jobs – Well Just Jobs
February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s been said that all politics is local. So in less than 2 years we’ll get a shot at Congress again. The question that is begging answered is the same one that always matters to mayors and county officials – how to increase the tax base.
The tax base is the local payrolls, property, income, sales [...]
Feb
2
Addiction Economics
February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s not “voodoo economics” anymore. The U.S. Congress with an army of special interests bent on getting their losses covered by anyone other than their own capital have already cleaned the whole economy out of $700 billion and are busily setting up for spending hundreds of billions more if not more than another trillion dollars. [...]
Jan
26
Will Peak Oil Become Gap Oil?
January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Professor Chris Rhodes writing in Scitizen has offered the idea that “Gap Oil” could or should replace “Peak Oil.”
It’s a concept that I could agree to, if the premise fit reality a little better. Professor Rhodes seems to like the idea that his thought of the “Gap Oil” label comes from him first, and I [...]
Jan
20
Let’s Not Kill All the Bankers
January 20, 2009 | 5 Comments
Later today then President Obama will give his inaugural address. There isn’t much likelihood that the speech will directly discuss banking and the mess its in or how to get the mess straightened up. I expect soaring rhetoric and hot air.
The title today is a take off Shakespeare’s oft quoted, “lets kill all the lawyers,” [...]
Jan
6
Short Term Thinking vs the Big Japanese Photovoltaic Business Gets Bigger
January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday saw the NEC Top 100 Technologies reviewed here and Al Fin kicking in Checkbiotech.org’s Top Bioenergy Companies on his energy blog. Then last night the news out of Japan has it that Toshiba, the huge company we see in electronics like laptop computers and TVs has jumped into utility scale solar photovoltaics. Now don’t [...]
Nov
24
A Not So Small War
November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For many the piracy off the horn of Africa seems interesting if a little remote. The stories about pirates catching up to freighter ships then asking for a ransom might seem an odd curiosity.
But when pirates seize and move 2 million gallons of oil, or more than 36,000 tons of wheat we’re talking food and [...]
Nov
18
Where to Make The Big Money In Energy
November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Many believe that buying equities, stocks, oil well drilling project shares and bonds in companies that work in finding and producing oil plus the companies that are researching and expecting to produce alternatives are the investments positioned for great future growth. That’s a near sure thing as energy use is going to be volatile over [...]
