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The UK Canary in the Carbon Mine

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Market Blog

Yesterday the Carbon Tracker Initiative (‘CTI’) launched its second report, with a well-attended event at Bloomberg’s offices. “Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets” picks up where CTI’s original 2011 report left off. The...

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Global | Carbon | WHEB

Tripping the light fantastic

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 4 March 2013 Thematic Blog

When you run electric current through a tungsten filament in an incandescent light-bulb, you waste roughly nine times the energy transformed into light, as heat. And those old incandescent light-bulbs always need changing: each one lasts around three months at average usage.

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Global | Multi-thematic | WHEB

Subsidies muddle: Full-fat for nuclear, semi-skimmed for the rest

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 20 February 2013 Market Blog

More rumours in the press today (19 February) about a guaranteed price for nuclear power in the UK.

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Global | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental | WHEB

What the shale oil counter-revolution means for clean energy

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 10 May 2012 Market Blog

More big changes are afoot in the shifting sands of the global energy industry. Crude oil derived from shale formations (‘Shale Oil’) suddenly has the potential to create an abundance of hydrocarbon energy for transportation, where previously it was in short and ever-dwindling supply....

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The fallout from UK new nuclear

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 2 April 2012

Last Thursday, the two giant German electricity utilities E.On and RWE announced that they would abandon their plans for new UK nuclear power plants. This is a major blow for proponents of the technology here in the UK, and creates serious problems for much-heralded ‘third...

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Resource scarcity challenges Grantham's 'impregnable faith in mean reversion'

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 19 March 2012 Thematic Blog | Market Blog

In mid-March we were lucky enough to hear Jeremy Grantham speak in London. For those unfamiliar with his work, Grantham is something of a living legend in the investment community. He is the founder of GMO, a global asset management company which now has nearly $100bn under management. The success...

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Thanks for that insight Mark. It is depressing to be reminded that hypocrisy is so rife in this...

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