Category: Energy
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AI‑Driven Collapse 2026–2100: The End of Normal Work, the Rise of AI Oligarchs, and How Entrepreneurial Families Can Still Win
A plan for thriving in a world driven by Article Intellgence. An exclusive strategic report by members of MECi Group International, mapping how AI is rapidly replacing cognitive and service jobs, hollowing out the global middle class, and splitting humanity into high‑tech AI‑core enclaves, managed peripheries, and low‑demand retreat zones—and what entrepreneurial families must do…
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Hot or Not? Why Investing into Nuclear is the best for the 21st century
How 1000 Chinese investors learnt what they already know: Fission Energy is the next best thing. China’s nuclear transformation is one of the most important, yet misunderstood, energy stories of the 21st century—and it was at the heart of a presentation I delivered to around one thousand Chinese investors in Hong Kong in September 2023.…
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The End of Oil? Oil Pricing for 2015 and the Rise of Solar Energy
Best Business Practices, Energy, Global Issues Affecting all of Us, Money, Solar Power, Technology, The Middle EastAn Arabic prophesy half way in the making? of a monetary glitch in the status quo? I wrote the article for the Al Jarida newspaper of Kuwait and it was published on Saturday 24 January 2015. It’s a further development of my previous blog on how technology is changing the way the energy market operates…
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2015: The Year For the Downside of Solar Energy and the Upside of Banking
How financial success for some doesn’t equate to project success for others. Photographer: Chris Sattlberger/Getty Images Downside of Solar? Yes, downside. The side where you slide down and things get easier and more efficient, and lower priced, and better, and people want more of it. That’s what is happening with solar power. Look at this…
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Is the US Oil Sector in Denial?
The ponzi of fracking and how it keeps the petrodollar alive. I came across an interesting article in my email the other morning about how higher energy taxes threaten US shale boom, and I was intrigued not really by the message, but by how the message was being delivered. Being close to the oil sector myself…
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Wireless Power
Direct distributed electrical power was discovered a long long time ago. Recent studies into the prehistoric structures in Egypt and Central and Southern Americas reveal vast spread of knowledge far beyond our own: ancient power stations and wireless power. Tesla in the 1890’s may have rediscovered what was known – and in common use –…
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No need to be afraid of a tax on carbon
Mixing politics with real science can give real solutions I read this article about how Australia can become a leading nation on our planet. https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/no-need-to-be-afraid-of-a-tax-on-carbon-20100903-14tqh.html Love it! Before the Australian election climate change was relegated to a distant nowhere in the election work up of each major party. Now it’s topic to swing a government…
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How to get a 1 hour suntan in 5 minutes
The reality of our world remains fragile and precarious I was sitting by the pool today (as I often do), thinking about stuff (as I often do)… I was thinking about a movie called Sunshine released in 2007. An excellent Si-Fi movie set 50 years into the future when the sun is dying. (Worth a…
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The Dark Side of Green
When the green movement has dark secrets I posted a comment here about the real costs of burning hydrocarbons. It was in response to discussion on subsidies on green energy technologies, global warming and everything in between. https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=62696&type=member&item=25411493&commentID=20660457&goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1&report.success=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_20660457 @Brian and @Brennan love the way you think. Clear, clean, concise. Brennan you’d never hit below the…
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The Mediocrity of Australian Politics
Do you think anything will change? Think again. Recent public movements in Australian politics reveal the truth behind the talking: National interest, getting things done, change for the good of everyone? These are not on the agenda. Personal interest, personal gain and tepid caution: these are what drives the upcoming Australian election. As pointed out…
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An Inconvenient Truth – 3 and a bit Years On
A detailed critique on recent measurements on Greenland ice melt and how it affects our views on Global Warming I was recently watching “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore again. Again I was reminded of a large amount of doubt and misinformation wandering about the world on the topic of global warming. Like a frightened…
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Leveraging Resources – Saving the Whales, and Dugongs
How team work and leadership is vital for protecting fragile environments. Not just dollars. At the same time as I building my butane sphere I was also “Saving the Whales” or rather the dugongs. You see, the BP refinery was sitting at the mouth of the Brisbane River on a small peninsular of reclaimed land…
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New Oil and Old Hopes – The Bakken Formation
I didn’t know about this one: The Bakken Formation in central USA. A recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report from April 10, 2008 documents the oil reserve in these rocks. Somewhere around 200 billion barrels that lie conveniently in the middle of the USA. The USGS announced that there is about 25 times more oil to…
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How to Become Insanely Rich
Authored by Jeremiah Josey, 18 June 2009 It has been more than 12 years since I built one of my first major capital projects. I was 24 at the time. I hunkered down to do everything that needed to be done to build a major piece of critical infrastructure in a multi-billion dollar refining operation.…
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The End of Royal Dutch Shell?
How the fossil fuel Industry plays with public sentiment only when it has to Today I read of the demise of Royal Dutch Shell – that huge unconscious behemoth employing 104,000 people around the world with 22B profits and revenues greater than USD300B per year. Well it wasn’t the specifically the demise, but the decision…
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A Note to Arnold Schwarzenegger
Finding out why wind farms are not working I sent this email to Arnold a few days ago. Hi Arnold, I don’t know whether to call you Mr Schwarzenegger, Arnold, or Sir, but as I’ve grown up in Australia and formalities, well just aren’t the thing we focus on, so I figure Arnold will do…
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