No plans

The energy transition has no plan – just goals Doug Houseman (Principal Consultant at Burns & McDonnell) about energy storage. Doug is a leader and visionary in grid and utility modernization.

Sir Winston om amerikanerne

«You can count on the Americans to do the right thing…after they have tried everything else.» Men antagelig er det enda et oppdiktet sitat, for det første dokumenterte tilfellet er fra en høring i den amerikanske kongressen og da ble det tilskrevet en uidentifisert ire: «He said that you can depend on Americans to do … Les mer

Hva er håp

For å kunne leve i nåtiden, så må vi være i stand til å se for oss en framtid som er bedre enn fortiden. Og hva trenger vi da? Fantasien vår! Henrik Mestad, norsk skuespiller (bl.a. kjent fra «Okkupert»)

Our green-looking goods

If you take, like a solar panel, most people assume that’s primarily green. Well, what you need to make quartzite into silicone metal, you need cooking coal. You take the quartzite and put it into a big furnace and burn it at 1500°C, and you get silicone metal. Then you need to turn that silicone … Les mer

The unkown unknowns

«Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones … Les mer

Capitalists according to Smith

«They are men who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.» Adam Smith, 1776 «The wealth of nations».

Dydene og egennytten

Dydene munner ut i egennytten som elvene i havet. François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Gullkorn fra Arnljot Eggen

Av historia kan vi lære kven som har hatt makt til å skrive den. Lytt nøye på det makta teier om. U-hjelp har for det meste ein unødvendig bindestrek. Dei falskaste maskene er av ekte hud. La oss spørja oss fram i staden for å svara oss bort. Dyr som lar seg dressere, går for … Les mer

The wrong form of capitalism

We have the wrong form of capitalism. We have an overly financialized financial sector. The financial sector is mainly financing itself. 80% of the UKs finance goes back into finance, insurance and real estate. It doesn’t reach the real economy. The business sector is highly extractional. An increasing amount is being extracted out in the … Les mer