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Gregor Macdonald
Gregor Macdonald has written for the Financial Times of London, The Oil Drum, and The Harvard Business Review. He has appeared on MSNBC in the United States, BNN in Toronto, and the Keiser Report out of Paris. His writings and views have been cited in the The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, WIRED, Macleans, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, MoneyWeek UK, and the Oil And Gas Journal. In 2011, Gregor was named in the Top Twenty Tweeps for Keeps by Barrons, as people to follow on the Markets and the Economy.
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The time has come for governments to seriously consider solar energy, argues energy journalist Gregor MacDonald
September 19th 2012
It is almost certainly the case that humanity has entered a third, historic energy transition. The first two, from wood to coal in the 18th century and then coal to oil in the 20th century, in retrospect seem obvious in their outcomes. But no such benefit of hindsight exists today as economies--western in particular--struggle with the end of cheap oil. Left to cast about for the next primary energy source, energy futurists have probed everything from algae to thorium as industrialism limps slowly away from fossil fuels. But one technology offers promise: solar.
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The time has come for governments to seriously consider solar energy, argues energy journalist Gregor MacDonald