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Geothermal rocks in the age of sustainability

October 26, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

Take a moment to scan some of the news about geothermal energy from October 24, 2017. This is just another day in the life of geothermal and it’s very exciting. Money is pouring into geothermal from all directions on all continents. From this vantage point it looks like geothermal might...

Saudi Arabia addresses Peak Oil

October 26, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

There’s trouble ahead for the oil industry that this week’s conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia isn’t going to paper over. The conference is billed as a “coming out party of sorts” by the New York Times (Saudi Arabia’s Grand Plan to Move Beyond Oil: Big Goals, Bigger Hurdles by Ben...

Trump’s DOE tries to pick “winners”

October 25, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today about how Donald Trump's DOE (Department of Energy), under former Texas governor and sometime presidential candidate, Rick Perry, is lending disproportionate support to the coal industry. “Rick Perry’s Anti-Market Plan to Help Coal” by Jody Freeman and Joseph Goffman shows how Perry...

Losing/finding Branson’s Virginity

October 24, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

Richard Branson, the business icon and entrepreneur extraordinaire is back on the bookshelves with another autobiography. “Finding My Virginity,” bookends a shelf of previous autobiographies including, “Like a Virgin,” "The Virgin Way,” and “Losing my Virginity.” Branson’s appropriation of virginity was mildly shocking once but in these times, it serves well to...

Today in geothermal

October 20, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

We occasionally post a listing of all the geothermal hits we get on a simple Google alert. As you can see, there's a lot going on in the world of harvesting free heat energy for human use. We think this is way cool and hope you do too. Above, bathers...

Climate Leadership Council disappoints

October 20, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

It was disappointing to see the Climate Leadership Council’s (CLC) plan for dealing with the climate crisis. The group is made up of former senior members of recent Republican administrations, some with ties to the oil industry. When the group announced its formation, it seemed like the GOP had developed some...

Iron in the oceans

October 20, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

An overlooked part of the climate issue for many people has been carbon reabsorption and sequestration. It’s a complex topic with the same convoluted set of choices as finding acceptable alternative energy sources. In energy there are good and bad choices like increasing reliance on nuclear energy or hydroelectric power....

The free market and the Paris Accord

October 19, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

Climate change has become a free market issue as business adapts to profit-making opportunities. Beagle Research chief Denis Pombriant said today that the free market has become inextricably involved in the climate change debate with a decided interest in actions that will result in profits. The Paris climate accords are...

Climate pessimism off the mark

October 18, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

[caption id="attachment_561" align="alignright" width="438"] Mary Barra, CEO, GM[/caption] Time to focus on abundant solutions rather than the problem says Beagle Research chief, Denis Pombriant October 18, 2017, Stoughton, MA—The decades-old climate debate has settled into an all too familiar rut and climate writer Denis Pombriant author of “The Age of...

The great, irrelevant beer battle

October 18, 2017 by Denis Pombriant

Thomas L. Friedman is one of the savviest op-ed commenters on the scene today. He writes of the intersection of business, society, technology, and global movements fluidly and is especially insightful when discussing the middle east, a topic he’s written about at book length several times. In his post at...