Steve Goreham Speaker/Author/Researcher Environment, Business, and Public Policy

This program discusses hydrocarbon and renewable energy, climate change, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, the coming electric power shortage, and future trends, with implications for energy industries. This program can be customized for energy, electric utilities, engineering, coal, natural gas, petroleum, and general business and industry.  See the program page below. 

This program discusses energy and climate, Net Zero, electric vehicles, carbon dioxide capture and storage, the prospects for a hydrogen economy, heavy industry, and future trends, with implications for industry and business.  This program can be customized to work for chemicals, concrete, construction, equipment, iron & steel, manufacturing, metals, mining, plastics, equipment, and general business and industry.

Invite Steve to present to your company’s board of directors, policy committee, or executive team with his half-day Executive Minority Report Program, covering:

• Energy Fact and Fiction
• The False Foundations of Sustainable Development
• Three Trends Driving Global Energy
• The Coming Upheaval in Energy and Climate Regulation
• Elements of a Sensible Environmental Policy

Steve can customize a program for your company in these and other industries:

Agriculture, Automotive, Cement, Chemicals, Construction, Electric Utilities,  Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Financial, Insurance, Manufacturing, Materials, Mining, Natural Gas, Petroleum, Plastics, Transportation

Are hurricanes getting stronger?  Will there be more drought and flood events?  Are weather patterns really changing?  Is mankind causing dangerous climate change?  Evidence and historical trends about weather events and climate, customized for your region and business.

Our modern society is blessed with an abundance of raw material and energy resources.  While some warn that natural resources are finite and being exhausted, the opposite is true.  Today we have the greatest access to resources in history.  Raw materials are natural, but resources, such as refined metal or fuel, are created by people.  The level of human technology overwhelmingly determines the availability of resources, not the amount of raw material in the ground.  With no end to the rising level of human technology, global material and energy resources will, for all practical purposes, never run out..

Automobiles, trucks, trains, ships, and aircraft are powered by modern fuels. Global exports are up 1,800 times in the last 115 years.  Each day, more than 100 million tons of freight are transported throughout the world.  A celebration of modern transportation, with challenging observations on modern fuels and sustainability.

Our world today is powered by hydrocarbons.  But are hydrocarbons on the way out?  And can humans control the climate?  The coming changes in energy and climate regulations and implications for your company.

Modern agriculture has been remarkably successful.  From 1961 to 2013, world population more than doubled from 3.1 billion to 7.2 billion.  But global agricultural production more than tripled.  Not only the quality of food, but the quality and variety of food is much better than in past ages.  Indeed, Americans eat better than the kings of old.  However, environmental groups decry intensive farming, and the farmer’s use of water, land, fertilizer, and pesticides, branding modern agriculture as unsustainable.  But instead, trends show that modern agriculture is producing more output, of higher quality, and with greater variety of products than ever before.  And farmers are doing this using less land, less water, less pesticide, and less fertilizer.

Human energy consumption is up 26 times since 1800.  We live in a golden age of low-cost energy.  Yet energy is one of the least understood aspects of our modern society.  Is energy use polluting our planet?  Is energy use causing dangerous global warming?  Are we running out of hydrocarbon fuels?  Learn why our current golden age of energy will continue.

This program celebrates modern agriculture and tells the story about how farmers are using less land, water, fertilizer, and pesticide to feed the world’s billions.  It discusses nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, meat production, greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, energy use, GMO crops, organic food, and other challenging topics.  This program works for agriculture and food industry clients.

This program discusses energy and climate, electric and hydrogen vehicles, land, sea, and air transportation, future trends, with implications for transportation industries.  This program can be customized for airline, automotive, equipment, railroad, shipping, trucking, and general business.