What Peak Oil?
Is peak oil imminent? Lots of people seem to think so. The data (released by BP a company who have a vested interest in oil scarcity) don’t agree. Proved reserves keep increasing: The oil in the ground...
View ArticleThe Next Industrial Revolution
Large, centrally-directed systems are inherently fragile. Think of the human body; a spontaneous, unexpected blow to the head can kill an otherwise healthy creature; all the healthy cells and tissue in...
View ArticleThe Long Run
Niall Ferguson’s misunderstanding of Keynes led me to the question of how humans should balance the present against the long run? It’s hard for us primates to have a real clue about the long run — the...
View ArticleOn My Enthusiasm For Solar Energy
I am a solar energy enthusiast. The energetic parts of the universe are clustered around stars. We sit here on this dusty ball of rock and water, heated continually by the Sun. The difference between...
View ArticleCan Google Go 100 Percent Renewable?
This week, Google announced in a blog post a new $80 million investment in solar energy in California and Arizona, bringing its total investments in renewable energy since 2010 to over $1 billion....
View ArticleThe world’s dumbest idea: Taxing solar energy
In a setback for the renewable energy movement, the state House in Oklahoma this week passed a bill that would levy a new fee on those who generate their own energy through solar equipment or wind...
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