When it comes to energy issues, Americans are far more interested in rhetoric than pragmatism. For proof of that, look no further than the massive energy bill passed by the House last month.
Read moreIt is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.
Read moreHugh Sharman is the founder and principal of Incoteco, an energy consulting firm based in Hals, Denmark. A native of the U.K., he received his degree in civil engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1962. Since then he has worked on energy infrastructure projects all over the world, including electric power plants in the Philippines, carbon dioxide injection projects in the North Sea, and the potential for electricity storage applications in Europe.
Read moreThe latest indictment of the biofuels madness concerns the copious quantities of water needed to produce them.
Read moreIt was just a year ago that Venezuela’s energy minister, Rafael RamÃrez, pledged that his country would be getting billions of new investment dollars from China and that oil production by 2012 will be at 5.8 million barrels per day.
Read moreThe word “polymath” best describes Vaclav Smil. A distinguished professor of energy and environmental studies at the University of Manitoba, he has published 25 books, most on various aspects of energy.
Read moreFor headhunters like Tom Zay, business couldn’t be better. “I have never seen demand like this,” says Zay, a managing director in the Houston office of Boyden, an executive worldwide search firm. “We’ve had cycles in the past. But this is different.”
Read moreIn mid-May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will allow the U.S. government to sue itself. Of course, that’s not how the bill’s backers sold the measure, known as the “No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007,” or NOPEC for short.
Read moreOn November 7, 2005, I sat in seat 13C on American Airlines flight 4631 from Austin to Raleigh, which then connected to another flight to Washington D.C. On the Austin-Raleigh portion of the journey, America representative to the Arab world, Karen Hughes, was seated in 13B.
Read moreThe ethanol madness continues! Last week, the Senate passed an energy bill mandating the production of 36 billion gallons of ethanol per year by 2022 sevenfold increase over current levels. Senators congratulated themselves for their environmental foresight.
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