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The Road Ahead for the Energy Transition

December 31, 2022 by

Llewellyn King and Duane Highely, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., discuss the winter electricity situation, and the road ahead for the energy transition.

The electrification of America

December 17, 2022 by

As the White House looks at how electrification can help the nation meet its climate and equity goals, Llewellyn King and Ray Kowalik, Chairman and CEO of Burns & McDonnell, discuss the power generation future.

Cybersecurity’s enemy within

November 26, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King talks to Robert Gardner, Principal at New World Technology Partners, who is one of the developers of supercomputers, about “emergent behavior” and how the internet has become a danger to itself.

COP27 and the rainforests

November 19, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King discusses the situation of the world’s rainforests with Kevin Conrad, director of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, who is participating at the COP27 conference.

Connecting veterans to help turn the tide on suicides

November 14, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Frank Larkin, COO of the Troops First Foundation discuss what is causing the rise in military veteran suicides and the National Warrior Call Day on Nov. 13, an initiative to get veterans connected and steering them to services — and to hope.

America’s farms under threat

October 29, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk with Gail Chaddock, host and producer of “No Farms No Future,” a podcast of the American Farmland Trust, about the nation’s disappearing farms.

America’s skyrocketing inflation

October 22, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the root causes and remedies for skyrocketing inflation in America with Providence-based economist Jarrod Hazelton.

Winter of woes in the United Kingdom

October 15, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the turmoil in the United Kingdom, from soaring energy prices to Prime Minister Liz Truss’s U-turns to Scotland’s push for independence.

Wit and wisdom from Chuck Yeager, America’s hero

October 1, 2022 by

Batteries: The essential future technology

September 24, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King discusses the revolution underway in battery technology with John Howes, principal at Redland Energy Group.

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Memories of PDVSA: The Same Problems, Just Worse Now

Memories of PDVSA: The Same Problems, Just Worse Now

Llewellyn King

In 1991, the state oil company of Venezuela, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., known as PDVSA, invited the international energy press to visit. I was one of the reporters who flew to Caracas and later to Lake Maracaibo, the center of oil production, and then to a very fancy party on a sandbar in the Caribbean. […]

A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

Llewellyn King

Come on in, 2026. Welcome. I am glad to see you because your predecessor year was not to my liking. Yes, I know there is always something going on in the world that we wish were not going on. Paul Harvey, the conservative broadcaster, said, “In times like these, it helps to recall that there […]

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Linda Gasparello

My husband, Llewellyn King, and I chose a Christmas-to-New Year’s cruise on the Queen Mary 2, titled Caribbean Celebration, because there were so many days at sea. We love the feelings of lethargy, languor and disengagement that fill us on those days. But the sea days — and there were three since we left New […]

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

Llewellyn King

A remarkable autobiography by Anthony Inglis, the English conductor and musicologist, is titled, “Sit Down, Stop Waving Your Arms About!” Quite so. This admonition occurred while Inglis was conducting a musical. Someone sitting in the front row tapped him on the shoulder and told him to sit down and stop waving his arms about. My […]

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