When I was a young lad in college, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s, I took a course in energy economics taught by Prof. Morris Adelman. I was an anomaly: there were probably no more than a handful of courses then being taught in energy economics in the colleges and [...]
I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to polls about energy issues. Way too often, the questions are posed in such a way that they practically compel the respondent to answer in a certain way. Seriously: if someone asks you “would you like the energy you use to have less environmental impact?”, are you going to [...]
One of the most important yet overlooked points about the penetration of clean energy into the marketplace is that there’s pretty much only one thing that matters: cost. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: people buy all sorts of things — clothes, cars, electronic gadgets — based on non-economic factors, but energy [...]
