The Coming Energy Boom
by Ran Kohn
Numerous pundits have recently written about the second coming of oil and gas to America—“Happy Days are here again”. Are they? Is it really possible to turn the clock back to the good old days when we were gushing oil and gas in America?
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Whither Energy Independence
April 16, 2012
It’s seems wherever we go, we hear about natural gas. Low gas prices are making utilities rethink their options and alternative energy projects have a new bar to overcome. Fracking has become the oil and gas industry’s new go-to technology. As a result, we now have “more gas and oil than Saudi Arabia”; add that to “we are the Saudi Arabia of Coal” and “if only the government would get out of the way, we would have energy independence”. What’s going on?
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Solar is Apolitical
Dec 6, 2011 The following is an excerpt from the introductory comments at the Solar in New York event.
For the future success of solar energy, it’s vital that all of us, regardless of our political colors, make sure that solar is apolitical. I can hear the snickering already; what about Solyndra?
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The Solyndra Stain
Nov 6, 2011
The Solyndra loan guarantee reflects irrational exuberance mixed with the twin enemies of good government—lobbying and lack of oversight. So what’s next?
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What If
September 11, 2011
Overnight our leadership had an epiphany that our country would benefit if we dramatically moved to being powered primarily by renewable energy
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