One year after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear energy policy is moving in two opposite directions. While much of the world, led by Germany, is embracing caution and winding down nuclear energy ambitions, the US, Britain, France and Russia are poised to boost their nuclear estate.

The electric-gas hybrid Chevy Volt is too expensive to be practical for the average American consumer and is designed to meet the demands of an ideological market fostered by upscale urban liberals.

Feed-in tariffs and solar energy make sense in the right situations, but must yield tangible benefits based on carbon reduction and market efficiency.

This Cancun meeting ought to end like the last one, with the kleptocrats sent packing with copies of the Collected Economic Wisdom of the Gipper as the best prescription for dealing with climate change.

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit produced an important, common sense consensus in favor of avoiding "dangerous interference" with the global climate. Rio, however, led to the Kyoto Protocol, which abandoned the focus on reliable science and effective policy in favor of arbitrary, unrealistic targets and timetables. Kyoto, for all practical...

Will we have the maturity to learn and move forward from nuclear energy's worst moment?

Sasol has developed a viable partial solution to the carbon dioxide/climate conundrum and has providedsome of the cleanest fuels on the market.

The country"s expertise in gold and diamond mining is well known, but its success with fuel technologies is now gaining respect and recognition.