Energy and Security

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Here is a list of topics and questions relating to energy and security:

• What is the relationship between energy security and economic stability?
• What is the relationship between energy security and peace?
 
• Are we really involved in a “War for Oil?”
 
• Did Enron cause artificial energy shortages in California, and what was the cost to consumers and the economy?
 
• How vulnerable is our current energy infrastructure to terrorist attacks?
 
• What are the security issues related to energy grids?
 
• Relative national (in)security of countries based on their energy needs.
• Middle East situation as told from an energy resource conflict perspective.
• What will the effect of Focus Fusion on the Oil producing countries be? (Both positive and negative).
 
• What are the security advantages of decentralized energy infrastructure? Disadvantages?
 
• Can you make weapons of mass destruction from fusion? (yes, they already have fusion bombs.)
 
• Yikes! Does this mean the Focus Fusion reactor will be used for evil? (No, it’s not a bomb. And unlike fission reactors, there’s no chance of a “melt-down”).
 
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Enron and the phony California energy crisis

In his review of the documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Roger Ebert says:

Strange, that there has not been more anger over the Enron scandals. The cost was incalculable, not only in lives lost during the power crisis, but in treasure: The state of California is suing for $6 billion in refunds for energy overcharges collected during the phony crisis. If the crisis had been created by Al Qaeda, if terrorists had shut down half of California’s power plants, consider how we would regard these same events. Yet the crisis, made possible because of deregulation engineered by Enron’s lobbyists, is still being blamed on “too much regulation.” If there was ever a corporation that needed more regulation, that corporation was Enron.