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The enemy of my enemy is my friend

December 2, 2006 By Rod Adams

One of my goals with this blog is to help people to understand that the energy debates are not just a discussion about technology – it is also a very important financial “game”. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to tell which “team” many of the participants in the energy are on – there are a lot of players that have multiple affiliations.

(GE, for example is a wind turbine company, a supplier of natural gas burning turbines, a nuclear fuel supplier, a supplier of supercritical steam plant components used by coal fired power plants, and probably builds major components for ethanol production. The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) consults for natural gas companies, utility companies, and government agencies, but it also invests in super light automobile production and fights nuclear power tooth and nail.)

One way of gaining energy industry insight is to seek to understand how analogs in other businesses work. For example, there is an interesting blog post on TechCrunch titled Yahoo! Says They’re Not Building A Library.

For those of you that do not follow the business aspects of the tech world, the background of the post is that it is a comment about one battle ground in the growing Google/Yahoo wars over dominance in key Internet markets – this one happens to be about searching library books and making the results available for searching on the Web.

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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