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Published 29 February 2012 | viewed 1,255 times
Several nights ago I participated in a debate (arranged by Russia Today TV – 24-7 – CrossTalk, and transmitted internationally in English) in which I…
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Published 08 February 2012 | viewed 1,981 times
In my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2012), the two natural gas kings are three – Russia, Qatar and Iran – while if I were beginning…
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Published 16 November 2011 | viewed 1,317 times
Berthold Brecht put it as follows: “If you don’t know the truth, you are a fool, while if you know the truth but say that…
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Published 07 September 2011 | viewed 1,194 times
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil ? Alan Greenspan (2008)
Alan…
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Published 02 September 2011 | viewed 1,414 times
Many years ago, although it seems like centuries, I was sitting in a small bar-disco in a town near Stuttgart Germany, talking to an Ivy…
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Published 07 July 2011 | viewed 1,869 times
Miracles take place in every war. The United States accounted for some of these during the Second World War, of which two were decisive.
These…
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Published 01 July 2011 | viewed 3,064 times
When recently asked why the (West Texas Intermediate) oil price at the end of June (2011) had declined from 112 dollars per barrel (=$112/b) to…
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Published 21 June 2011 | viewed 1,251 times
According to the United Nations energy organization (IAEA), statistics indicate that for 2009 and 2010, nuclear reactors in Sweden and Germany managed by the Swedish…
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Published 15 June 2011 | viewed 1,309 times
In the summer of 2001, a few months before the 9-11 attacks on the Trade Towers and Pentagon, I was invited to Hong Kong as…
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Published 08 June 2011 | viewed 1,446 times
Lets start with the bottom line, or what I usually call ‘The Message’
While Germany might temporarily abandon nuclear facilities located in Germany, they will…
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Published 23 May 2011 | viewed 1,526 times
In my forthcoming textbook Energy and Economic Theory (2011), the last chapter contains a section called ‘On the Sunny Side of the Nuclear Street’, which…
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Published 13 April 2011 | viewed 360 times
When the subject was oil, my students at the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) were politely asked to study the situation in the United States.…
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Published 09 April 2011 | viewed 1,422 times
Many years ago in Chicago, a man that I knew and heartily disliked, married to a beautiful actress and dancer, abandoned his bed in the…
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Published 23 March 2011 | viewed 1,676 times
As I pen these few humble words, Swedish combat aircraft are being tuned up for the long flight from Sweden to somewhere in the Mediterranean.…
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Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 1,276 times
Some years ago I was engaged in a half-serious one-man crusade to stop electric deregulation in Sweden. As with most one-man or one-woman crusades, it…
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Published 05 February 2011 | viewed 2,014 times
As most readers of this short paper probably know, Dr Steven Chu is the energy secretary of the United States, a physicist, and a Nobel…
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Published 01 February 2011 | viewed 1,382 times
I had hoped to give a provocative lecture on the economics of nuclear energy at the forthcoming international meeting of the International Association for Energy…
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Published 24 January 2011 | viewed 1,314 times
This short paper borrows from my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2011), and consists of a part of the lecture that I once desperately wanted to…
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Published 09 December 2010 | viewed 1,508 times
An article published in the Infantry Journal (U.S.) many years ago contained the following exotic question: “If you only had an hour in which turn …
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Published 07 December 2010 | viewed 2,389 times
Several years ago I politely asked every student in my course on oil and gas economics at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) to master…
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