Energy prices: what if fracking did not exist?

The despicable invasion of Ukraine by Russia has naturally stressed energy markets. But the situation would be far more extreme if the US had not previously developed the fracking revolution, a revolution that transformed the US into the biggest energy producing...

Green hydrogen, a marketing hit but a somber reality

In the 2019 document “The Future of Hydrogen”, prepared by the International Energy Agency (IEA) for the G20 meeting, it was stated the following: “All energy carriers, including fossil fuels, encounter efficiency losses each time they are produced, converted or used....

Open letter to J&J (Jerome and Janet): please stop the party

Dear J&J, here are some facts you might well consider in your summer meditations. The big unanswered question is why, under obvious knowledge of them by you and us, you insist in such expansive and seemingly unrelenting monetary and fiscal expansions, as if there...

Energy, copper and their orders of magnitude in Chile

Perhaps never before in its history, Chile (US$ 275 billion GDP, 19.5 million inhabitants) has been simultaneously bestowed with an upward trend in copper prices and a downward trajectory in energy prices, both under solid structural conditions. Chile produces 5.8...