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…s, stability and our portfolio investments. As part of this effort, I made a pilgrimage to Manitoba to spend a day with Vaclav Smil. Vaclav is one of the world’s foremost experts on energy, and has written over 30 books and 300 papers on the subject (he’s #49 on Foreign Policy’s...

I sit down with Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba to discuss “the year in energy”. Vaclav is one of the

…ere its President is resisting German demands for centralized budgetary supervision. Our annual energy discussion with Vaclav Every year, I sit down with Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba to discuss “the year in energy”. Vaclav is one of the world’s foremost experts o...

…, stability and our portfolio investments. As part of this effort, I made a pilgrimage to Manitoba to spend a day with Vaclav Smil. Vaclav is one of the world’s foremost experts on energy, and has written over 30 books and 300 papers on the subject (he’s #49 on Foreign Policy’s...

…inson rides a bicycle to power a lamp so he can read a book. Michael Cembalest J.P. Morgan Asset Management Biography Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and a Fellow of the Royal Society of...

…e merit®, it is hard to escape (iii). Energy Conversions 101 is meant to show why, using examples’ that I expanded from Vaclav’s narrative (unit equalities on p.8). Question #1: How much more electricity would the US need if it switched Question #2: Do electric cars require less...

…mon Peres to help celebrate Israel’s 60" birthday. I was there for the same reason. I had just appeared on a panel with Vaclav Havel and with Natan Sharansky, both of whom who had been imprisoned by Communist regimes, and both of whose cases I had worked on as a defense attorney....