Category: The Middle East
Observations, posts and pages relevant to the Middle East
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Kuwait’s Green Future – Sunshine and Sunflowers – Article for Al Jarida 23 December 2016
Author Jeremiah Josey This article was written for the Al Jarida newspaper and published on Saturday 23 December 2016. This article took a full page to discuss the economics of solar energy in Kuwait. It is published here on page 10: Al Jarida Article 23 Dec 2016 Kuwait’s Green Future – Sunshine and Sunflowers I saw…
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Exponential Curves, Compounding Interest and Finite Resources
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” Albert Einstein Has anyone wondered why the roads have become so congested so suddenly? Almost everywhere. Moscow, London, New York, Sydney. A dramatic increase in congestion and traffic in the past few years.…
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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 EastAuthor Jeremiah Josey I wrote this article for the Al Jarida newspaper 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 and how the oil price may never rise again. It is published here: Al Jarida…
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2015: The Year For the Downside of Solar Energy and the Upside of Banking
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 slope for US energy pricing: Source: EIA,…
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Is the US Oil Sector in Denial?
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 I know that it’s a high-profile…
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Discussion with Kuwaiti Member of Parliament
Author Jeremiah Josey MECi Group A few nights ago I met up with recently elected member of Kuwait parliament the Right Honourable Nawaf Al Fuzaia. We discussed many things, one of which was about the prospect of doubling of the budget for the Government of Kuwait over the next 10 years. That reminded me about C. Northcote Parkinson and…
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Dubai – A Creation from Sand
It’s about a journey. Dubai Jeremiah Josey
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Burqa Woman
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I’m sitting at Arrivals with my regulation Starbucks semi- daily black brew. No sugar. Grande. I’m waiting. All nationalities are arriving. It’s busy. I’m observing. Looking. Staring. A couple emerge. Business or married I can’t tell. Either way it’s not nice. Man and woman. Perhaps Swiss or German from their…
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The Dark Side of Green
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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. http://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 belt in…
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Great People – Dean Karmen
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group You can learn about a guy called Dean Karmen from a book called Project Ginger: about how Dean made the segway (and other neat inventions) It’s thanks to people like Dean Karmen that we get to experience marvellous “miracle” technology as “common place” after millions of dollars and millions of human…
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Know your Army…
Know your army before declaring War – Jamal Al Ajmi, Kuwait, 2009 Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group
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The surge of US troops in Afghanistan is fundamentally flawed
Why? Because the strategy is short term focused, and forgets about what is really going on: a nation of disgruntled people with not much else to do, except wait for an exceptionally bleak future to roll over them. This disgruntled state is giving birth to the violent factions we now endeavor to “remove”. Sending in…
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The Business of War
Waging war, being aggressive, using force is one of the oldest methods of trying to instil “obedience” or servitude in another. We do it between nations, inside our companies, our institutions, our schools and even within our families. On a national scale, of course you want to avoid damage to your own civil infrastructure because…
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Lost in Translation
I had a very interesting experience the other night when buying a Viva internet account here in Al Khout, Fahaheel, Kuwait. It was one of those small shopping kiosks you see spread along the center of the mall. After I establishing that I wanted a service with Viva and I just pay 24 KD per…
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Is There Any Difference Between Islam and Christianity?
Yesterday I was riding on the Storm Peak Express Ski Lift at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA, sharing that ride with a very felicitous beared fellow. He reminded me very much of the character “Chicken Joe” from that wonderfully light movie Surf’s Up (by Sony Pictures Animation, 2006). My ski lift riding companion was a boarder…
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The Advantages of the Middle East
The Middle Eastern culture has more or less been continuous for close to three thousand years (from roughly 9th century BC). Islam, adopted by the Arabs from the early 7th century AD is a comparative new addition to their rich culture. Islam has never-the-less had a significant impact today across around 400 million people. A…
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Understanding the Current Situation in the Middle East
I’m working my way through a great book right now. It’s called “The Assault on Reason”, written by Al Gore. Al does a wonderful job following on his “An Inconvenient Truth”, where in common language he helps us to understand the critical and devastating impact that we are having on our planet due to global…
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You know you’ve been in the Middle East far too long when…
You’re not surprised to see a goat in the passenger seat You think the uncut version of ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is provocative You think every one’s first name is Al You need a sweater when it’s 40 degrees celsius You expect everyone to own a mobile phone Your idea of housework is leaving…
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