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Germany’s Energy Transition: From Piped Gas to LNG and Renewables
April 11, 2025 - Germany's decision to end piped gas imports, mainly from Russia, and transition to liquefied natural gas (LNG) marks a profound shift...
April 11, 2025
Putin Still Has a Taste for War (From the FOX News Rundown)
March 05, 2025 - Rare earth minerals, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Zelensky in Munich, the bottling up of Crimea and Putin’s future war...
March 5, 2025
Affordable Supersonic Travel is Coming Soon
February 17, 2025 - Boom Achieves Supersonic Flight. The first civil supersonic jet made in America breaks the sound barrier in historic Mojave...
February 17, 2025
Rondo: Industrial Heat from Bricks
January 24, 2025 - For the time being, a world running on clean, affordable, and reliable renewable energy is an aspiration, rather than an achievable...
January 24, 2025
Aptera will Launch EVs with Solar Panels
January 1o, 2025 - Can you have a three-wheel super-efficient electric vehicle, EV, with built in solar panels that produce some of its energy? Can this...
January 10, 2025
AI Can Boost Urban Farming Productivity
December 30, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, AI, can help boost the growth of a new modality to grow food: vertical urban farming. Yes, we are talking...
December 30, 2024
Texas Will be a Green Hydrogen Hub
December 13, 2024 - When most people think of Texas, they think of old western movies. They envision vast open spaces, huge cattle ranches, cowboys, and...
December 13, 2024
Green Economy Tomorrow, Climate Adaptation Now
December 6, 2024 - The outcome of the turbulent COP 29 climate gathering which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan prompts a couple of important...
December 6, 2024
Finally, a Breakthrough in Battery Technology?
November 11, 2024 - Form Energy, a relatively unknown U.S. firm, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and now also by many high-profile private...
November 11, 2024
Will Nuclear Power Fuel AI Centers in America?
November 6, 2024 - AI revolution is gaining momentum in America. NVIDIA, maker of the coveted chips which constitute AI’s key components (85% of global...
November 6, 2024
Solar Electrical Power from Fabrics?
October 7, 2024 - How about a tent that produces the electricity necessary to satisfy the needs of campers or field hospitals? Pvilion, a U.S. company...
October 7, 2024
Electric Airplanes for Short Flights in America?
October 3, 2024 - Unlike in Europe, Japan or China, in America passenger railways have been neglected. While this may change in the future, at this time...
October 3, 2024
Water Used in Hydraulic Fracturing is Now Recycled
October 1, 2024 - Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is the phenomenal technological innovation that unleashed a U.S. boom in the...
October 1, 2024
South Africa’s Solar Boom
August 14, 2024 - The African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party since 1994, is a sad illustration of African corruption and...
August 14, 2024
US Nuclear Power Future: Small Reactors
August 7, 2024 - Could it be that the now moribund U.S. civil nuclear power sector will be lifted to new heights by innovative technologies? Maybe so...
August 13, 2024
The Vertical Urban Farming Revolution
August 2, 2024 - Soon enough the lettuce or kale that you buy at your favorite supermarket will be grown next door to it, in a high rise building. It...
August 6, 2024
Uber Driverless EVs: The Urban Transportation Revolution
August 1, 2024 - The promise of electric vehicles, EVs, is that they will do away with internal combustion engines powered by oil derived gasoline. The...
August 2, 2024
Green tech investment could reach $5 trillion by 2025
August 17, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Andrea Zanon. For global markets, investing in sustainable business is the only way forward...
August 21, 2022
Cleaner U.S. Oil & Gas Sector Catalyzes A Cleaner Industry Worldwide (From RealClearEnergy)
May 6, 202 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Paul Steidler. The staggering pollution from Russia’s pre-war, largely unregulated oil and natural gas industry...
May 9, 2022
End Of The Green Illusion? Not Yet
April 13, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. Now it is fairly clear. Getting to a green, decarbonized economy in order to stop...
April 17, 2022
The Reckless Push For Electric Vehicles At The U.S. Postal Service (From RealClearEnergy)
December 28th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Paul Steidler. As Democrats regroup and forge ahead with plans to implement components of the Build Back...
December 29, 2021
The Limits of Green Energy Technologies
December 27th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. WASHINGTON — Here is our problem. We really want to stop global warming. But we...
Engage Big Oil For Lower Emissions (From RealClearEnergy)
November 12th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Paul Steidler. These are heady days for bashing U.S. and European multinational oil corporations while...
November 15, 2021
Why Nothing Can Replace Large-Deck, Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers In U.S. Strategy (From Forbes)
September 14th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The United States is the only nation that operates a fleet of large-deck...
September 20, 2021
A Cleaner Oil Industry: Driven By Data And Common Sense (From RealClearEnergy)
September 01st, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI fellow Paul Steidler. The world is going to need 50 percent more energy by 2050, including a large amount of...
September 5, 2021
The Post Oil Economy Just Began
January 29th, 2021. Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. WASHINGTON – President Biden has been heavily criticized by conservatives for...
February 5, 2021
Oil Badly Hurt By Global Warming Fight
January 04th, 2021. Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. WASHINGTON – Well known energy expert Daniel Yergin wrote a...
January 20, 2021
Can Biden Create a Viable Green America?
December 25th, 2020. Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. As president-elect Joe Biden announced his team in charge of climate change and...
December 27, 2020
The End of Oil?
December 05th, 2020. Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. WASHINGTON – The Wall Street Journal reported on December 4th that...
December 14, 2020
Tesla Batteries and Climate Change
May 20th, 2020. Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. Notwithstanding solemn pledges issues by many governments, no country that really...
May 22, 2020
How Aerojet Rocketdyne Manages To Play An Outsized Role In The U.S. Defense Supply Chain
May 01, 2020. Issue Brief by GPI Senior Advisor Loren B. Thompson. U.S. policymakers in recent years have become increasingly concerned about the...
May 2, 2020
Coronavirus Threatens To End America’s Long Run As A Leader In Commercial Aviation
March 19th, 2020. Issue Brief by Loren B. Thompson. U.S. companies participating in the production of jetliners are facing a liquidity crisis due to the...
March 26, 2020
Mucking Up America’s Competitive Electricity Markets
March 5th, 2020. Issue Brief by Lexington Institute Senior Fellow Paul Steidler. America’s competitive electricity markets, coupled with sensible...
March 9, 2020
Can Tesla Make It?
March 1st, 2020- Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. Tesla’s recent massive stock price rise has no rational explanation. Believe it or...
Three Huge Defense Threats For Which Washington Is Woefully Under-Prepared
February 3rd, 2020- The United States outspends every other nation on defense, and as a result has the best trained, best equipped military in the...
February 3, 2020
Europe’s Dreams
January 13th, 2019- Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo Von Schirach, We heard from Ursula von der Leyen, the new President of the European Commission...
January 13, 2020
Raising The Temperature In The Middle East
January 6th 2020- Issue brief by GPI President Paolo Von Schirach, After the unexpected airstrike that killed IRGC General Qassem Soleimani, right...
January 6, 2020
The Fake Aramco IPO
December 18th 2019- Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo Von Schirach, There were great expectations about the Aramco IPO. It was announced long ago by...
December 19, 2019
Thanks to Fracking, No Panic in the US After The Attacks on Saudi Oil
September 18, 2019- Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo Von Schirach, The most astonishing consequence of the unprecedented, devastating attack on Saudi...
September 18, 2019
Use Small Ball to Help End Washington’s Gridlock
August 15, 2019- Issue Brief by Paul Steidler, Small ball is when a baseball team employs a strategy to grind out a run or two, through sacrifice bunts...
August 15, 2019
Aerojet Rocketdyne Cuts Costs, Builds Infrastructure To Compete For Engines On Future ICBM
August 8, 2019- Issue brief by GPI senior adviser Loren B. Thompson, Last month’s revelation that Boeing may not bid to develop the Air Force’s...
August 8, 2019
U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum
July 11, 2019- Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Jonathan Chanis During the last 45 years, the United States has experienced alternating periods of energy...
July 11, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s Transformation and U.S. Energy Security: Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst…
July 5, 2019- Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Jonathan Chanis Since the elevation in June 2017 of Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to Crown Prince, or next in line...
July 5, 2019
Alaska, Area 1002, And U.S. Energy Security
July 2, 2019- Issue Brief By GPI Fellow Johnathan Chanis The recently passed Senate budget resolution provides the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
July 2, 2019
The Fracking Miracle: George P. Mitchell and the Renewal of American Energy
April 10, 2019 - Issue brief by GPI Fellow Martin Sieff: US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is a happy man: U.S. crude oil production has soared above 12...
April 10, 2019
America’s Energy Future
December 20, 2018 - Issue brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "The good news is that America is now among the top three world fossil fuels...
December 20, 2018
Does America Need Nuclear Power?
June 4, 2018 - Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "Can nuclear power come back as a cost-effective modality to generate electricity in...
June 4, 2018
Why Self-driving Cars? Upgrade Bus Networks Instead
May 22, 2018 - Issue brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "The ongoing buzz about the marvel of "driverless cars" soon hitting the roads is a bit...
May 22, 2018
The coming power revolution for developed and developing countries
May 7, 2018 - Issue brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "When it comes to electric power generation and distribution, in developed countries we...
May 7, 2018
Electric Cars? Better Invest in a Horse
October 11, 2017 - By GPI Fellow Martin Hutchinson: "Britain intends to ban the purchase of internal combustion and diesel engine cars in 2040, hoping...
October 11, 2017
Seven Biggest Reasons America Should Seek Energy Dominance (From Investor’s Business Daily)
August 11, 2017 - By Paul Steidler: "The United States is on the cusp of becoming the world’s dominant energy provider. This has wide-ranging and very...
August 11, 2017
Oil Prices Will Go Down But U.S. Shale Will Survive
By GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "After the oil production cuts recently announced first by OPEC and then non OPEC oil producers, oil prices...
January 11, 2017
Mass Produced Electric Cars? Sooner Than You Think
By GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "The still unresolved issue that will determine if and when there will be real mass demand for Electric Vehicles...
November 30, 2016
Is Exxon’s Obfuscation About Climate Change A Crime?
By GPI President Paolo von Schirach: "Here is the thing. We know now that ExxonMobil’s internal documents reveal that experts working for the company...
September 29, 2016
Towards Smart Cities
By GPI Fellow Murat Kuzlu: "The smart city concept consists of various key areas such as transportation, education, healthcare, e-governance, public...
August 3, 2016
Dealing With Depressed Oil Prices
Issue Brief by Paolo von Schirach: "I am not at all surprised to see that the Doha oil talks aimed at finding an agreement among major producers about...
May 2, 2016