I'm in Eugene, Oregon today to give the keynote presentation at the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Eugene Water and Electricity Board. The gist of my message is that as impressive as progress has been in the past century it will pale in comparison to what is coming in the next two decades. [...]
"Clearly there is a lot going on deep in the Earth that is completely unknown to science." So concludes this fascinating article in The Economist on, of all things, carbon. Did you know, for example, that although carbon is critical to life on earth the scientific community has no idea of how much of the [...]
Tomorrow, I will be giving a keynote presentation to Missouri River Energy Services entitled “Leading in an Era of Exponential Change: How to Jump the Curve to a Smarter Future.” There are a number of reasons why the utility industry must change but I’d like to provide just one: Companies such as SunEdison are now [...]
I’m in Anaheim, CA today to deliver the opening keynote at the American Public Power Association’s annual meeting. As I discussed the other day, I like to use historical analogies to help my clients understand the future. One analogy I am going to ask this particular audience of electric utility executives to keep in mind [...]
I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Winnipeg, Canada to address the Life Science Alley of Manitoba on the topic of unlearning. As part of my itinerary, I also had the opportunity to address the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce on the future of green energy. I have taken the liberty of posting the YouTube [...]
I speak frequently to the utility industry. One of the big challenges the industry faces is that in order to meet the future energy demands of their customers they are confronted with large capital investments--in the form of building new coal or nuclear plants. The problem is that continued advances in a variety of energy [...]
The other day I introduced the word exaptation--or the idea that an innovative in one area can lead to an unexpected discovery in another field. Because I speak frequently to executives and leaders in the energy sector, I would now like to provide a concrete example of exaptation for the utility industry: Advances in battery [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of keynoting the Large-scale Homeowners Association annual meeting in Washington, DC. After my presentation, in which I discussed how a number of technologies would become significantly cheaper in the future, a representative from Verizon discussed how his company was developing a new app which would soon automate a person’s [...]
It was the biggest story of the year and perhaps the biggest story of the decade or maybe even this century. Surprisingly, it has quickly faded from the view of most people.What story am I referring to? It's not the BP oil spill. It was the announcement in mid-May that man had created artificial life. [...]
I am preparing to speak to a major public power association early next week on the impact of disruptive technologies. Among other things, I will be discussing breakthroughs in solar, wind, biofuels, wave power, energy demand managment, and fuel cell technology. I will also being mentioning possible breakthroughs in the field of “cold fusion.” The [...]
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