The new year is upon us and it is time to get the ball rolling. The project at hand is building the funding structure and the eco-system for Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRS). There are numerous challenges to this process. However, the rewards are no less than the solution to the greenhouse gas issue and the incredible wealth to be generated from the successful execution of this project. This is the environment we face. Competition There are numerous entities working on “New Nuclear”. These break down into two main categories. The first is the “Small Modular Reactor” or SMR group. The second is the “Molten Salt Reactor” or MSR group. There is some overlap, however, hopefully I can clear that […]

2018. It went by pretty fast. I am thankful for that, and I will not miss it. Once in a while you have those years you wish you could forget or at least go back and change. 2018 was one of those years. It was not a “bad year” by any stretch. However some things just stand out as difficult. On the positive side there were very large changes in my career that were welcomed. After 27 years in the investment world I was presented with the opportunity to run a significant business interest in partnership with my brother and best friend. I took it and I am a better person for it. In addition, I have been able to […]

An inconvenient truth started all of this for me. Or should I say watching An Inconvenient Truth started all of this for me. As they say ‘there are none so enthusiastic as the newly converted’ or something like that. And I was no different. It was 2007 and I had my own investment management firm that dealt in private investment counsel and private equity portfolio management. After watching the movie I dug into Carbon Finance and I was going to help save the world. Overnight my practice focused on socially responsible investing, carbon credits, renewable energy, and anything to do with carbon finance. We joined the UN Principles for Responsible Investing, I knew the Kyoto Protocol and the CER / […]

Life is interesting in the detours and roads you may take to get where you are at any moment in your life. It is easy to look back and say ‘I should have done this or that…’ in the hopes of rewriting your history. I have done this myself and I am sure many of you reading this have as well. But I now see it as the fabric of my life that I have woven and that it all contributes to where I am now and where I am going. Over my career journey there have been some interesting stops. Some great, some good, and some strange and unsettling. However they have all contributed to an interesting experiential base […]