Publication

This report looks at the "hydrocarbon status quo" that the world is mired in. For their own specific reasons, which the author identifies, each of the world's major military and economic powers has little motivation to alter its present energy mix by embracing technological, political and socioeconomic alternatives to fossil-fuels. The one possible exception is Japan, a country with scant indigenous hydrocarbon resources and a growing number of energy-related problems. The author suggests that it might, therefore, be East Asia that will become the zone of new green technology excellence.