Professional Futurist / Strategist
Forecast & Outlook: Coal is the world’s fastest growing source of energy and leading fuel source associated with carbon emissions. There is a two-fold path to rethinking our relationship with coal’s carbon molecules based on ‘Cathedral Thinking‘ and ‘Manhattan Project‘ strategies. The end result and legacy we might leave future generations is a new capacity to better [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: The global conversation about the future of transportation will soon shift from a narrow focus on incrementally improving ‘miles per gallon’- to a more substantive and fundamental rethinking of vehicle design and manufacturing based on an era of ‘drive by wire’ control systems, wheel-based electric motors and the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: The future of unconventional natural gas is the buzz topic within the world of energy forecasting. Natural gas is a clean, versatile fuel that could eventually expand beyond centralized utility power plants into markets for smaller scale Distributed Power systems, as a cleaner transportation fuel in the ‘Electric-H2 Age’, and if all [...]
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I was recently asked to join the hosts of The Takeaway in a conversation [Listen] on the ‘game-changing’ relevance of GM’s claim that its soon to be released Chevy Volt can achieve a 230 mpg efficiency in urban-suburban commuting based on driving less than 50 miles per day. (Tricky math?) Is the Chevy Volt a [...]
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Haynesville, a new documentary by Austin-based filmmaker Gregory Kallenberg, explores the lives of three individuals who find themselves on top of an enormous reserve of natural gas wealth, and at the center of a conversation about the future of energy in America. Natural gas is often described by energy forecasters as the ‘fuel of the [...]
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Exxon Mobil made headlines this week by announcing that it could invest up to $600 million to scale up the production of algae-derived liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The company is teaming up with Craig Venter (of Human Genome fame) to rethink how we use biology to turn carbon into a profit-generating resource, rather than a liability [...]
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