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Software: The Unsung Hero of the Energy Revolution
For Energy and Capital last week, I took a fresh look at how software is enabling the energy revolution by streamlining rooftop solar design, improving home energy efficiency, and putting the “smart” in smart grid. Software: The Unsung Hero...
My Verdict on the Bloom Box
For last week’s Green Chip Stocks, I took a critical look at the new Bloom Box fuel cell system, and concluded that it’s a modest improvement over standard natural gas-fired grid power. The Verdict on the Bloom Box Too Big to Grail By Chris...
Energy Outlook for the Next Decade, Part 2
For Green Chip Stocks last week, I continued my two-part series on investment themes for the next decade, including my predictions for oil, natural gas, coal, renewables, uranium, efficiency, water, and agriculture. Energy Outlook for the Next...
Investment Themes for the Next Decade
Instead of the customary next-year outlook, I am closing out the decade that John Perry Barlow so aptly termed “The Uh-ohs” with a two-part article outlining my view of energy for the next decade. I will begin with the big themes and move on to...
What If EIA Annual Energy Outlook Were Written by an Honest Person?
Suppose you worked at the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the agency within the U.S. Department of Energy charged with keeping data and making projections on energy, and you had to produce an annual report with a scenario for the next 25...
Investing in an Empire of Illusion
For last week’s Energy and Capital, I critiqued an America in thrall to its illusions, unable to respond meaningfully to the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and population, and cautioned investors to be self-reliant in facing the...
Dubai World and Masdar: A Tale of Two Cities
For last week’s Green Chip Stocks, I contrasted Dubai World and Masdar City as icons of the past and future. Looking at the world through the lens of energy investing and peak oil, it’s hard to imagine a starker contrast than Dubai World and...
Investing in Hard Assets
For this week’s Energy and Capital , I look at the moves the big money is making into hard assets, and predict tough times ahead for the dollar and U.S. equities. One key to being a successful investor is knowing where the big money is going. And...
What Peak Oil Can Do for Climate Change
For Green Chip Stocks last week, I offered some insights from the peak oil study that should inform climate policy. With all eyes focused on the Copenhagen climate summit in less than three weeks, perhaps its time for the peakists to find a new...
High Speed Rail: A No-Brainer
For Energy and Capital last week, I surveyed the explosion of high speed rail around the world, and prescribed some stiff medicine for the U.S. “‘Boondoggle‘, ‘Loss-making whim‘, ‘Monument to bad territorial planning’. . . Such are the arguments of...
Farmland Fever
For this week’s Energy and Capital column, I consider the recent mega-investment wave in farmland in light of peak oil concerns, and think farmland may be the trade of the century.What should a long-term investor invest in when stocks and bonds...
Macro Musings on Earth Day and Green Energy
For my Energy and Capital column this week, I celebrate Earth Day by finding many reasons for optimism in the wave of green initiatives sweeping the nation, but also find a market still staggering under the weight of a broken financial system....
