For those who want to see the “future that has already happened” (to paraphrase my favorite Peter Drucker aphorism), I recommend reading three illuminating reports. Soft Power: Zero to 60 Billion in Four Years, from Entropy Economics Industrial Internet: Pushing the Boundaries of Minds and Machines, from GE. Analytics: The real-world use of big data,…
Apparently exportingsomething America has in abundance creates economic value — in this case, natural gas, not wheat (but that would be obvious). And the more of it you export, the more money you can make. And apparently in Washington D.C. this is “breaking news.”
Nature happens. So you plan for it. New York’s Governor Cuomo agrees and laid out the case in an OpEd, We Will Lead on Climate Change, in the New York Daily News.
“Google lights up Iowa's economy with [data center] expansion in Council Bluffs” Des Moines Register, November 16, 2012. For the record, coal provides 70% of Iowa’s low-cost highly reliable power.
New York Post New York and New Jersey should direct their gripes at the right targets: Don’t blame the utilities — think Solyndra. Utilities do what policymakers and regulators tell them to do, which in recent years has been to spend money and time on making electric grids greener, rather than harder to break and…
San Diego Union-Tribune California venture capitalists and the Obama administration spent, collectively, $30 billion, over the past four years on energy tech investments to replace oil, coal and natural gas. Odds are that won’t happen again.
