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Charles Ebinger
Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Charles Ebinger is the Director of the Energy Security Initiative and a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, a think tank based in Washington D.C. He specializes in international and domestic energy markets and the geopolitics of energy with a particular focus on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Ebinger has served as an energy policy advisor to over 50 governments.
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“In the final analysis, governments generally don’t embark on policies that may well mean their political demise sooner rather than later.”
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If we’re being even a little optimistic about future CO2 levels, warns the energy and risk analyst Charles Ebinger, then we’re in trouble.
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Will futuristic energy solutions such as fusion and biofuels ever live up to the hype surrounding them?
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Even if there is, “dirty” coal in developing countries still poses a major problem.
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The “global nuclear renaissance” may finally be at hand. But can the technology be kept in the right hands?
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Wind is becoming a more viable (if still controversial) energy source, but effective solar power may have to wait until the nanotechnology boom.
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Pushing developing countries to slow development because of the energy crisis we’ve created is not just unfair—it’s dangerous.