I’m spending a bit of time this afternoon helping my daughter with an essay on Pride and Prejudice as a work of social satire. So many of the social conventions that Austen chops up so brilliantly in this masterpiece have …
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When I was in Boston on Tuesday I recorded a webinar in the office of Esplanade Capital’s founder Shawn Kravetz, who provided almost a full hour of really sharp insight into the ever-changing world of investment in solar photovoltaics. In …
A friend sent me this article on the adoption of electric vehicles for my comment. Like so many other things, there are two sides to the “EV” coin, but, as I told him, this piece was written for the lowest possible …
In the course of writing my second book (“Is Renewable Really Doable?”) I realized during an interview with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington DC that I had been misquoting the volume of subsidies that the oil companies receive from …
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After Wednesday night’s debate, I became one of literally millions wishing to give U.S. President Barack Obama advice, and, for that reason, I certainly do not believe that what I’m about to write has any particular importance. Having said that, …
On my piece about ARPA-E and government funding for the development of new, speculative technology, Larry Lemmert asks: Why should the taxpayer be funding speculative projects? Why should the taxpayer be the first to take a hit when the speculative …
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Many of us are scratching our heads, wondering how it’s possible that renewable energy, for all its merits, could be so slow to replace fossil fuels. As outlined in this article on Chesapeake Energy (our second largest natural gas producer), the …
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As we pay our respects to America’s fallen soldiers this Memorial Day, let’s take a moment and remember what put so many of them in harm’s way in the first place: our dependence on oil. While we’re at it, let’s …
If you were tasked with crafting the worst possible energy policy, what would you do? Well, you’d say, “OK, I’m going to reward bad behavior, and penalize good behavior,” right? Then you’d send enormous sums of tax-payers’ money to the …
I hope readers are following the discussions in Washington DC in which lawmakers are quizzing the CEOs of the five largest oil companies concerning the subsidies they receive from US taxpayers. Several senators have asked the industry to defend this …
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