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Energy



A Moore’s Law for Renewable Energy

by Andrew J. McKeon
 
Increasing capacity per dollar in computer technology has driven exponential growth for 50 years. The same could happen in the energy industry.

Will Your Next
Electric Company
Be a Global Oil
Enterprise?

by Viren Doshi, Robert Oushoorn, and
Robert Famulok
As the energy markets evolve, oil and gas majors should consider diversifying into power generation.
 

Nuclear Realism after Fukushima

by Tom Flaherty, Joe van den Berg, and
Nicolas Volpicelli
A hasty, large-scale movement away from nuclear power would not resolve most of the issues raised by the ongoing crisis in Japan. Instead, we need more thoughtful discussions now about the energy systems of the future.

Renewable Energy at a Crossroads

by Christopher Dann, Sartaz Ahmed, and
Owen Ward
The wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal sector has grown in fits and starts — and now may have the momentum to become a self-sustaining industry.
 

Resetting the Cost Structure at Shell

A senior finance executive explains how a zero-based cost management effort is leading to significant performance improvements.

Big Oil and the Natural Gas Bonanza

The oil majors hope to make major money in natural gas, but can they learn to operate two distinct types of businesses under one roof?

Big Oil’s Big Shift

As a result of the Gulf accident, the oil industry faces profound changes — not just in the management of environmental risks, but in every aspect of its business.

China’s Clean Tech Boom

Bruce Usher, the former CEO of EcoSecurities, describes China’s path to leadership in renewable energy.

Why We Hate the Oil Companies

As Shell’s then top U.S. executive traveled the country, he discovered how corporate leaders create their own reputation for arrogance — and lose their chance to deliver the right message.

A Renewable Oasis

Why oil-rich Abu Dhabi is building the world’s first zero-carbon city.

After Copenhagen: Impact, Change, and Implementation

A conversation with Nick Pennell and Rob Fowler

An Immodest Proposal for the Next Big Fuel

If nuclear energy represents a genuine way to deal with climate change, let’s test it through a massive joint project involving the U.S., Japan, France, and China.

Overcoming Nuclear Power’s Biggest Hurdle

A cap and trade system for storing radioactive waste may be the best means to wake up a critical but moribund industry.

Energy Policy by the Numbers

A Cambridge scientist says it will take better arithmetic and less passion to replace fossil fuels by 2050.
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