CHAPTER 22
Opportunities and Challenges in Green and Traditional Energies
What does the future hold for energy investors? Expect that dollars will flow to smarter, lower-cost solutions to energy opportunities and growing energy demand. Existing technologies will get cleaner and more efficient as operators attempt to maintain market share when subject to competition. New and green technologies will get cheaper and more reliable as engineers move along the learning curve, striving to lower capital requirements and operating costs and solve other issues that keep energy production costs above established competing technologies. And expect that every now and then a disruptive technology will be developed that might just might change everything—after ...