Germany, Namibia Launch Research for Green Hydrogen Pilot Project
November 28th, 2023
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on a German and Namibian collaboration around green hydrogen: German material research institute, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), has announced a partnership with research agency the Namibia Green Hydrogen Institute (NGHRI) to conduct research on a hydrogen pilot plant and filling station, located near […]
Read more »Thailand Wants to Build a Brand New Shipping Route. Why Isn’t China Buying?
November 28th, 2023
Via the South China Morning Post, commentary on lagging Chinese interest in Thailand’s proposed infrastructure opportunity: The Land Bridge project, a proposed route for shipping that could bypass the Malacca Strait, is being shopped by the Thai government as it seeks financing If built, the bridge could reshape the economy of Southeast Asia – but […]
Read more »From Cape Coast To Ibadan, Africa’s Future Is In Its Second Cities
November 28th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on the potential of Africa’s secondary cities: Frequently neglected by authorities, the continent’s second cities will nevertheless absorb a large part of its demographic transition. More agile than metropolises, they are changing the face of Africa. The secondary city is defined above all by what it is not: […]
Read more »The Possible Outcomes If Indonesia Joins BRICS
November 28th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, commentary on possible outcomes if Indonesia were to join the BRICS: Before we delve further into the complexity of the possibilities that could occur if Indonesia joins BRICS, it is important to know what BRICS is and the agenda it has. BRICS is an association of 5 countries consisting of Brazil, Russia, […]
Read more »China’s Remote Deserts Are Hiding an Energy Revolution
November 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at China’s strategy to use remote regions to host vast green projects; Out of the rolling yellow dunes of the Kubuqi desert arises what appears to be an oasis, shimmering blue beneath the northern China sky. Row after row of hundreds of solar panels cover this otherwise barren stretch of […]
Read more »Pondering The BRI’s Alleged New Roads
November 27th, 2023
Via the East Asia Forum, commentary on China’s BRI future: Not so long ago, countries were ecstatic about the potential of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a mega-infrastructure scheme launched in 2013 that would connect the world through ports, power grids, railways, roads and telecommunications networks. Western pundits worried that BRI projects were pulling […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.