Mark P. Mills
Manhattan Institute
New York, NY, United States
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The “Energy Transition” Delusion
Global economies are facing a potential energy shock. The crucial question now is whether America has the political will to face the new geopolitical landscape. → Read More
The tough calculus of emissions and the future of EVs –
Mark Mills Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Mills is the author of the forthcoming book, "The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s." He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. Investors and […] → Read More
Biden’s Not-So-Clean Energy Transition
The International Energy Agency exposes the hidden environmental costs and infeasibility of going green. → Read More
‘Unsettled’ Review: The ‘Consensus’ On Climate
A top Obama scientist looks at the evidence on warming and CO2 emissions and rebuts much of the dominant political narrative. → Read More
Industrial Policy: Old-Think in the New Cloud Era
These days, there appears to be one area of bipartisan agreement: America needs an industrial policy.[1] To the extent that there is any debate between Republicans and Democrats, it is mainly over how much to spend and which types of industries should be favored (or disfavored).Preserving and... → Read More
‘Oilcraft’ Review: That Old Black Magic
How the myths of scarcity and security haunt U.S. energy policy and keep it tied to the puppet strings of the House of Saud. → Read More
Our love of the cloud is making a green energy future impossible –
Mark Mills Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Mills is the author of the book, “Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era,” and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, and a partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund. An epic number of citizens […] → Read More
‘After Shock’ Review: The Future of Forecasting
Futurists have tended to focus on trends in technology and less on pandemics and health care. That will now change. → Read More
Space: The Only Frontier and the Birth of Silicon Valley
Mankind is overdue for another grand gesture. Thus, on this anniversary of Apollo 11, consider 11 numbers that speak to what was accomplished 50 years ago and why Mars is in reach. 500 Start with the fact that over 500 million people, 15% of humanity, watched the moon landing live on TV on... → Read More
What If Green Energy Isn’t the Future?
There’s a reason Warren Buffett decided to bet $10 billion on the future of oil and natural gas. What’s Warren Buffett doing with a $10 billion bet on the future of oil and gas, helping old-school Occidental Petroleum buy Anadarko, a U.S. shale leader? For pundits promoting the all-green... → Read More
What if Green Energy Isn’t the Future?
There’s a reason Warren Buffett decided to bet $10 billion on the future of oil and natural gas. → Read More
Energy and the Information Infrastructure: Robots Eat, Too
A note about this series: A half-century after the terms “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” were first coined, the age of AI is now in sight, emerging from three symbiotic silicon infrastructures: ubiquitous sensors generating massive data, high-performance communication... → Read More
Have We Got a Carbon Tax ‘Dividend’ for You
Rent seekers, virtue signalers and green lobbyists will love it. Taxpayers not so much. This could be the year Congress tries to enact the mother of all taxes, a carbon tax—a levy on the use of oil, natural gas and coal. Everything that is fabricated, grown, operated or moved is made possible... → Read More
Have We Got a Carbon Tax ‘Dividend’ for You
Rent seekers, virtue signalers and green lobbyists will love it. Taxpayers not so much. → Read More
Saudi Arabia And The Future Of Oil Prices: Look To What Robots Will Do, Not What Trump Tweets
Oil analysts are going to have to revise their theories of “price discovery” with a better understanding of the shale market where we find new features in terms of velocity, volume, and variety -- which are the same three “Vs” used to describe the features of big data that are so impactful. → Read More
Speculation About $150 Oil And The (Inevitable) Rise Of Deep Water Companies
One effect the American shale boom had in triggering the oil price collapse of 2014 – it drove discipline and technology into the offshore oil domains where breakeven costs now match or are lower than shale. With oil prices and profits rising, the race begins again to over-supply the world. → Read More
Robots Run the Farm, but You Can Eat Only So Much
Good news for future jobs: Unlike for food, there’s no limit on demand for goods. → Read More
The Top 10 Technologies That Concern Millennials
Everyone wants to know what Millennials like when it comes to selling ideas, products, or political candidates. After all, they now constitute the largest group of citizens, and voters. But if you’re a corporation in the business of disrupting the status quo, say, or a pundit looking to... → Read More
Steve Case And Elon Musk: Tech Titans Who Bravely Venture Into Fly-Over Country
Case’s new fund focuses on the geography of fly-over states, where the US extracts, grows, makes physical stuff; credit Musk for his full-throttle focus on what is, for Silicon Valley, a kind of virtual fly-over country of physical technologies anchored in atoms and hardware, not bits and software. → Read More
Why Silicon Valley Loves Mining
The global embrace of electric cars is being hailed by myriad enthusiasts as yet another kind of digital disruption coming out of Silicon Valley. But if that transformation comes to pass, what it would actually signal is a new era of mega mineral mining and chemical processing — and rising... → Read More