Mikkal Herberg Quoted in Technology Review Blog
Fixing the Growing Oil Crisis in Asia
10/28/2010
Kevin Bullis,
Technology Review Blog, MIT
Almost all of the world's growth in energy demand is happening in Asia, propelled by the economic growth in places such as India and China. Since 1990, for example, China's energy consumption has tripled.
In places such as Shanghai, it looks like this energy growth is the result of conspicuous consumption: towering sky scrapers blaze with light an night; streets are lined, Times-Square style, with massive LED billboards; vast networks of highways are packed with cars idling in traffic jams.
But in much of Asia the energy is providing basic needs: lights, heat, health care, clean water--curtailing the growth in energy consumption, or switching to more expensive renewable sources of energy, will mean denying people these basic services, which is why Asian governments are working so hard to secure energy supplies, buying up oil fields around the world and constructing vast pipelines and elaborate liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.
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Mikkal Herberg is a senior lecturer on international and Asian energy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is also the BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy at the Pacific Council on International Policy and also serves as research director on Asian energy security at The National Bureau of Asian Research.
