What all this is about…
We are facing the global peak in oil production. The majority of oil producing countries are already well past their peaks and a few large producers struggle to increase production to accomodate to global demand. Yet world political leaders have failed to grasp the importance of this fact. We use energy to run our global [...]
Oil spill and carbon emissions not enough
In The Daily Beast of the 8th of July BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not enough to create a bipartisan majority in favor of taking America off it’s addiction to oil. No, neither carbon emissions, nor a major oil spill is likely to be enough. The fact that will eventually do [...]
The Importance of Systems Integrators in Renewable Energy
I have now spent the best part of a week in Washington DC presenting at the George Washington University, meeting influential people in business and NGOs. From these meetings I have come up with a number of ideas. One is that there is a need for a framework for national energy strategies. In my book [...]
In Good Company
Last week the high level lobby organization American Energy Innovation announced a suggested plan for large scale energy systems transformation in the United States. Bill Gates and Jeff Immelt are also going to meet with President Obama on Thursday the 17th of June to discuss the issues related to large scale energy transformation. Among the [...]
Traveling Wave Reactors
The company Terrapower with Bill Gates as one of the key investors develops the emerging technology of “traveling wave reactors.” This new nuclear technology is based on using uranium that has already been used in existing reactors. Only five per cent of the energy of the uranium has been used, and the used fuel could [...]
Bill Gates: Climate Change is a Bigger Issue than Inventing New Vaccines
In his recent TED speech, Bill Gates argues that climate change is a bigger issue than inventing new vaccines, and that we will need new “energy miracles” to cope with this challenge and develop and implement the necessary new energy technologies of the future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/bill-gates-ted-speech-201_n_461034.html Bookmark It
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Mats Visits GWU June 21
