WALL STREET JOURNAL . …….. Amazement and alarm have been persistent features, the yin and yang, of discourse about the power of computers since the earliest days of electronic “thinking machines.” In 1950, a year before the world’s first commercial computer was delivered, the pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing published an essay asking “Can machines…
CITY JOURNAL ………..The leaders of California and China have at least one thing in common: fear of blackouts. In late September, following widespread and economically debilitating losses of power, China’s vice premier Han Zheng ordered the country’s energy companies to ensure sufficient supplies before winter “at all costs” and added, ominously, that blackouts “won’t be…
TECHCRUNCH ……… A growing body of research points to the likelihood that widespread replacement of conventional cars with EVs would likely have a relatively small impact on global emissions. And it’s even possible that the outcome would increase emissions.
TESTIMONY BEFORE U.S. SENATE …….. Since the purpose of this hearing is to considering draft legislation that addresses the infrastructure implications associated with shifting the nation’s energy supply towards lower-carbon options, I believe it would be prudent to consider the full range of options that could achieve such goals, especially those that could do so…
WALL STREET JOURNAL (BOOK REVIEW) ………… Amy Myers Jaffe’s “journey thinking about energy as a problem” began in 1973, waiting in those infamous gasoline lines. She hasn’t been alone in that journey. OPEC’s oil embargo was a defining event that has haunted the thinking of policy makers for decades.
WALL STREET JOURNAL ……… The International Energy Agency, the world’s pre-eminent source of energy information for governments, has entered the political debate over whether the U.S. should spend trillions of dollars to accelerate the energy transition favored by the Biden administration. You know, the plan to use far more “clean energy” and far less hydrocarbons