Electric Anarchy
Imagine you had demanded world leaders 10 years ago to stop using fossil fuels in 11 years. You would have been laughed out of the room. Everyone was aware that life without fossils would not be possible or conceivable. They…
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Oil Farming
Heribert Hoover is one of the most misunderstood presidents of the US ever. His presidential term was overshadowed by the fallout of the world economic crisis as he took the reigns of the country right after the fateful year 1928.…
Who stole my dreams
About 24% of the world’s population are children. This means that we have a little less than 2 billion of them on this planet. Not all grow up and live under the same circumstances though. The UN says that 820…
NOPEC’s last battle
In October 1973, the member countries of the Organisation of Arab Oil Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. A coalition of Arab countries had attacked the state of Israel. After first advances were beaten back by the much smaller Israeli…
The end of effortless oil
German literature knows the expression “Schlaraffenland”. A rough and dirty translation into English would be “the land of milk and honey”. German literature and fairy tales used it to describe a fictional land. Everything exists in excess in this land. …
The Holy Church of Climatology
In May 1969, almost exactly 50 years ago, the Soviet space program made history. The planetary exploration probe Venera 5 sent a lander into the atmosphere of the planet Venus. It was not the first such lander as they tried…
The gas of life and the climate
I was a bookish child. While others honed their skills on the round leather, I devoured encyclopedias. You read right. I thought I had to read a certain number of pages from the biggest encyclopedia daily. One day, I would…
What is Temperature
I was 18 years old when Robin Williams hit my awareness level with “Good Morning Vietnam”. He was an instant superstar, not only for me. At the time we still had to go fetch clunky VHS videotapes. That’s a plastic…
The new American age
What comes to mind when thinking of ancient civilizations? Yes, that’s right. It’s the Romans or classical Greece with its many city-states. But what was ancient to the old Romans? What do they see when they look far back? The…
Is it smart for the US to export LNG
Oscar Wilde once observed that there are two tragedies in life: Developers of new, unsanctioned US-based LNG terminal projects are in a bind. And I don’t blame you if you harbor some concern for them. The US Gulf Coast and…