All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Industrial

While flywheels may be designed and built to store large amounts of energy, there are three fundamental issues with flywheels: 1) Flywheels are heavy, as heavy or more than a battery of equivalent energy. 2) Flywheels are mechanical and need bearings and couplings and also a motor of some...

After the mid '70's, the economists demonstrated a significant conservation of oil and gas for a few brief years.  Smaller more gas efficient cars, 55 mph speed limits, etc.   After the few good or better years of gas prices, this country started back on the "old ways" by making...

The diversification of sources in energy production is not  a matter only correlated to the level of oil price. The current level of oil price certainly stimulate differentiation but security of supply is another driving force.

The importance of this artcle can be summed up in the observations that are pointed out by various voices of a Hyper-Inflated World economy, due to these spiralling costs of crude oil. These cost increase are having a major impact on society as a whole in theoil consuming nations around the world;especially...

It's simply impossible to predict a parity level between oil prices and nuclear power attractiveness. For starters, most U.S. electricity is generated by coal, not oil, and cost of electricity from coal is only weakly correlated with oil prices. And then there is the fact that...

The rapid rise in steel and all metal prices can not be sustained without pricing some users out of the market. How long will the rise in steel pricing be sustained before the reduction in purchased volume or an increase in capacity results in a reduction in pricing How many companies particulaly in...

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions will do nothing to affect global warming, and will cost trillions.

"Alternate forms of energy... will likely fail as serious Fossil alternatives"? This is a ridiculous statement. Look at the real-world growth in wind and PV for indicators of whether renewables will succeed. They already are succeeding! The linking of oil prices to nuclear power is erroneous, as oil...

Stainless steel production growth rate will continue this year unabated despite seemingly stagnating economic growth of the Western world on the back of a credit crunch due to the momentum that is already in the industry spurred on by demand in China, India and the Middle East. The CIS countries are...

The consolidation of the food equipment industry is happening at a breakneck pace despite the slow down in the economy that has to be affecting the customers. The price that whoever wins Enodis among ITW and Manitowac pays will be too high given the historical earnings of Enodis. What consolidation...