Alan Krupnick: What Would an Energy NAFTA Mean for the Environment? Maybe Something Good
An energy-specific NAFTA would bring North America closer to energy integration. If done right, it could also lead us toward a more sustainable energy policy.
Carlos Jahn: Sailing Back Into the Wind
Shipping goods by sea accounts for about 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Ship designers like Norway’s Lade AS are turning to wind and natural gas technologies to cleanly power the future of the industry.
More than 200 years ago, the expression “sailing” started losing its original meaning in merchant transport.
Ralph Exton: The Age of Resilience: Building a Sustainable Water Future
With increasing global water scarcity now a given, it’s time to focus on resiliency so that we can preserve what resources we have for the long run.
Extreme weather is the world’s new normal. The same year Europe sustained an unprecedented heat wave, in 2010, Pakistan was deluged by floods. Australia endured consecutive “Angry Summers” starting in 2012, while the U.S. has been buffeted by increasingly intense hurricanes, polar vortices and several years of drought in California with no end in sight.
Jon Freedman: How Water-Starved Saudi Arabia Is Quenching Its Thirst
As demand for water increasingly outstrips supply, countries like Saudi Arabia are charting a course for sustainability with innovative water reuse policies.
The Industrial Internet is Already Changing Our Lives, You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Nabil Habayeb: Powering Egypt's New Era of Growth
Nabil Habayeb, Senior Vice President GE, President & CEO, GE International Markets At GE
March 13, 2015
Even oil-rich nations need an energy boost. GE is working to provide one for Egypt.
Delivering power where it matters and when it matters has been a major challenge for policy makers across the world. Electricity fuels life and growth, and with the population continuing to increase around the globe, the demand for reliable and assured power supply is growing as well, often at exponential rates.
Charles Feinstein: 3 Breakthroughs That Can Help Bring Power to Over a Billion People
Innovation in energy storage, smart grids and mini-grids hold the potential of improving access to power for billions of people around the world.
Amy Myers Jaffe: How to Beat OPEC — Take the Highway to Natural Gas-Powered Trucking
With OPEC defending its oil market share, the U.S. should lock in the advantages of a healthy natural gas sector. Piloting corridors for LNG-fueled trucking would be a promising start.
Devon Manz: When Energy Is Distributed, Everyone Benefits
Distributed power provides the reliable, low-cost electricity needed to support economic growth regardless of weather or infrastructure conditions. Utilities should embrace its potential.
James R. Maughan: A Brief History of Peak Oil
How technological advances in exploration and production have pushed back the date when oil output will max out, creating an opportunity for the development of alternative energy sources.
With apologies to Stephen Hawking for the title of this blog and an acknowledgement of a recent Wall Street Journal article on the subject, here’s a summary of various predictions of when the world will run out of oil: