You can’t escape the irony. Ohio is doing better. Jobs are coming back and they are energy jobs. No, not from wind, battery and electric cars, but from oil and gas. Ohio is already well along its way to a jobs recovery in large measure from a hydrocarbon boom.
"The [2012] survey showed a massive increase [in data center power requirements] over the last twelve months of 63.3% globally to 38 gigawatts (GW) with a further 17% forecast for 2013." DatacenterDynamics 2012 survey Imagine what might happen when real growth returns.
Presidents may not be able to keep the seas from rising, or persuade Congress to go along with their favorite policies. But presidents can lower the cost of gasoline. Whoever becomes president after November 6th can, with the stroke of a pen, drive the price of oil down. For proof we have two facts that…
It’s a sad day for enthusiasts of electric cars and the idea of government-sponsored industrial policy. A123 [NASDAQ:AONE], the storied MIT-spinout and lithium battery maker filed for bankruptcy today.
There is a new Big Thing coming. I’m not talking about the election, but a deep secular cycle in technology that has enormous implications for our economy. The pessimists are wrong about the end of innovation, and growth, just as they have been serially wrong for as long as there’s been techno-pessimists and intellectual Malthusians. But the…
This past Sunday, investigative journalists at The New York Times created something of a furor in the dweeb-o-sphere with a lengthy article titled Power, Pollution and the Internet: The Cloud Factories. “A yearlong examination by The New York Times has revealed that [the] foundation of the information industry is sharply at odds with its image…
