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Jeremy Bentham: How Can We Achieve a Low-Carbon, High-Energy Future?

Jeremy Bentham Shell
February 06, 2015
The energy system is at the beginning of an inevitable transition, driven by numerous convergences: growing prosperity, changes in resource availability and technology and cost developments, to name but a few. Tackling the climate change challenge is a fundamental factor we must account for in this shift. However, it is not the only one; we must also address the rising demand for energy — especially in emerging markets.
 
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Charles McConnell: Don’t Worry About Low Oil Prices

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
February 04, 2015

How shifts in energy markets present an opportunity to invest in a sustainable future.

 

Lower oil prices will likely be with us for the next several years, given how market cycles tend to have lags. The oil and gas industry faces a choice: Adopt a defensive crouch until a recovery takes hold or push forward and invest in a future of sustainable energy.
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Fueling the Future — Q&A with Lorenzo Simonelli

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
February 03, 2015

Beyond headlines about oil prices, innovation is helping to bring about a more efficient oil and gas industry.

 

The oil and gas industry is experiencing a transformation, one that is broader and more long-term than what you read in the headlines about market swings. There’s a fundamental shift underway toward more innovative, efficient practices across the whole oil and gas value chain.
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Carlos Pascual: Making Green Projects ‘Greener’

Carlos Pascual Ihs
February 02, 2015

Trillions of dollars need to be invested in power over the next two decades. Here’s how to make emissions-reducing projects more attractive.

 

Over the course of 2015, large parts of the energy and environmental world will focus attention on achieving a new form of legally binding climate agreement in Paris under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Tim Schweikert: Powering a Smarter, Greener Marine Industry

Tim Schweikert GE
January 29, 2015
The challenges facing the marine business could make any ship captain double check their bearings — industry uncertainty and the need to go further and deeper in harsher conditions to meet customer demands.
 

In the choppy waters of the marine business, stability is the name of the game. Whether exploring for oil & gas in deep waters offshore, touring in a luxury cruise-liner or transporting LNG, everyone is after the same thing — greater efficiency.
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability

Ban Ki Moon United Nations
January 28, 2015
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development since its creation in 1945. The year will also be an opportunity to look forward — and in particular how to ensure that people everywhere can thrive on our one and only planet. 2015 is when we will set our course for a sustainable future.
 
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Virtual Pipelines, Piping Hot!

January 20, 2015
“Takin’ the freeway, driving the clean way, with Amoco in my machine.” It was one of the most singable advertising jingles of 1970s Australia, an era when the petrol tankers of Amoco, Esso and Golden Fleece thundered along our highways. The ad comes fleetingly to mind as virtual pipelines, which transport natural gas by road train, promise to bring cheaper and cleaner power to many remote mine sites and communities. Takin’ the freeway may sound retro, but these days innovation frequently comes from tweaking the wheel.
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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Power to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power

December 26, 2014
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot water needed to make its products. Elsewhere, tree bark, sewage sludge and even rubbish from landfill are all turning into one thing: power.
 

More and more companies are using waste products for power generation, thanks to the growth of distributed power.
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Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
December 22, 2014
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative steps on critical economic issues. In other words, less gridlock but little impact.
 
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