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Byron King

Byron King contributes to the successful newsletter Smart Commodities UK. Currently serving as an attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981 and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University. 

 
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Ethanol Production Increases but is it a Valid Alternative to Oil? - by Byron King

In the first part of a two-part essay Byron King looks at the US ramp up in ethanol production and its limitations as an alternative for oil...


History of financial disasters - by Byron King

...What constitutes a financial disaster? What causes these disasters?...


Mankind versus Mother Nature - by Byron King

...By digging up and releasing this buried carbon and CO2 at the present rapid pace, mankind is reversing in perhaps two centuries what Mother Nature required literally geologic ages to accomplish...


Peak oil and global warming - by Byron King

...Global warming is the other side of the coin of Peak Oil. That is, in the process of rapidly depleting the Earth's supply of fossil fuels, mankind is also playing a life-threatening experiment with the Earth's atmosphere...


Dr Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari and the four phases of transition - by Byron King

...Dr Bakhtiari predicts oil will cost in the range of $100-150 per barrel in the not-too-distant future. He characterizes this as the "Four Phases of Transition"...


The history of the imminent US bankruptcy - by Byron King

...It is interesting to speculate what would have happened in the early exploration and development of North America had France followed a similar path in its bankruptcy laws and procedure...


Investing in global warming: A torrent of darkness, part 2 - by Byron King

...First there was Peak Oil the phenomenon that has many people worried is global warming. While it is easy to brush this off as gloom and doom, Byron King explains that just because there are problems in our future, it doesn't mean there are no viable solutions - or even ways to make a little money...


Pollution in China: A torrent of darkness - by Byron King

...One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals, and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants... ...One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals, and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants...


Al-Zarqawi and the price of oil - by Byron King

...According to the BBC News Business Wire on Thursday 8 June 2006, "Oil prices have dropped sharply to below $70 a barrel on news of the death of the militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq..." In my view it was good to see this. It was nice while it lasted, and it also portends a number of things about the future...


Peak oil production in United States and the world - by Byron King

...Peak oil production in United States and the world...Peak Oil is not some sort of Internet conspiracy theory. It is as much a geological fact as is anything that occurs on a geological scale...



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