GLG News by Renewable Energy Experts in GLG Member Programs

The media is saturated by energy companies promising a painless path to continued cheap supplies, and cleaner to boot.  Meanwhile, T Boone Pickens has burst upon this complacency with a campaign that act as a wake up call to drastically shake up how we guzzle our fuel.  What ever one thinks...

We are mesmerized by the present high price of oil, but that's only a part of the picture.  Natural gas and coal prices, water scarcity and a steadily declining large household base will essentially spell the beginning of the end of the housing, vehicle and development sprawl.

I am finding a slight case of irrational exuberance seeping into the photovoltaic prediction industry.  The latest is a prediction reported in the Financial Times of a fivefold increase of photovoltaic production by 2010.  The industry will grow nicely, but not at this frenetic rate.

Hawaii has broken new ground in becoming the first state to require solar water heaters in new construction.  This policy joins an array of others employed by states and localities to develop renewable energy markets in lieu of federal paralysis.   It will not be a magic bullet with federal...

What we shall see soon is the Chinese sending goods to Saudi Arabia and the Aramco crude as well as oil product go to China.  Currency will not apply directly as this is barter.  These folks (Arabs and Chinese) have ancient cultures that used barter so it is not unexpected.  In fact they...

In the 1970s the US Congress forced the Aramco partners (SOCONY, SOCAL, Exxon and Texaco) to divulge the reserve base they had in Saudi Arabia.  In the 1990s, Matt Simmons reviewed all the AAPG and SPE papers by Aramco engineers about the problems with the reservoir decline.  The Aramco management...

Big Oil (TOT, BP, RDS, XOM, COP, CVX) control very little of the world's oil and gas reserves. National Oil and Gas Companies (NOC) control over 85% of the oil and gas in the ground.  These are Saudi Aramco, NNPC, NIOC, Pemex, PDVSA, Petronas, LNOC, Sonotrach, etc. Big Oil does not have technology...

There is still a tremendous bias to find "the" answer to the challenge of providing cleanly, affordable and secure energy that is also profitable to investors.  Our centralized, command-and-control way of extracting and delivering non-renewable energy blinds us to the fact that even there, different...

As the LA Times article describes, solar thermal electric generation schemes have actually been technically successful for some years and the 354 MW of parabolic trough systems built in the late 1980s are still running very well.  What's needed now for these technologies, collectively known as...

A call for a revolution in how we use energy is overdue.  But the "real" revolution will come when we learn as a society how to harvest it, not mine it.  That means going with renewables and efficiency, not traditional nuclear and fossil fuel systems that are just more of the same, and more...