Archive for the ‘environment’ tag
CO2 as the moral equivalent of financial derivatives
Tonight at the New York Public Library I attended a discussion between award-winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman and Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman and one of the founders of Infosys Technologies, Ltd. These are two immensely interesting and well-spoken men, so I jumped at the opportunity to hear them live.
The discussion at first centered on well-known facts: the [...]
Financing Alternative Energy: A Case Study
One of the more common barriers to entry to building out alternative energy sources - both locally and at scale - is the financing. In nearly every instance, alternative energy require a significant capital outlay that, when amortized over a long period of time, will actually save money. Most alternative energy solutions, then, face two primary risks [...]
