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  • Peter W. Huber Founder, Digital Power Group

    Peter W. Huber is a founding member of the Digital Power Group (Washington, D.C.) and Digital Power Capital, and coauthor of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a Gilder Technology Publishing investment newsletter (Housatonic, MA). He is also a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC.

    Peter is also a regular columnist in Forbes magazine, writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Huber clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

    Research Areas

    Science, Environment, Technology, Law

    Publications
    • The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste (coauthor with Mark Mills) (Basic Books, 2005)
    • Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (coauthor with Mark Mills) (Basic Books, 2005)
    • Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 2000)
    • Federal Telecommunications Law 2d Edition (coauthor) (Aspen, 1999)
    • Law and Disorder in Cyberspace (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)
    • Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (coauthor) (MIT Press, 1997)
    • Federal Broadband Law (coauthor) (Little Brown, 1995)
    • Orwell’s Revenge: The, 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press, 1994)
    • Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (coauthor) (MIT Press, 1993)
    • Federal Telecommunications Law (coauthor) (Little Brown, 1992)
    • Galileo’s Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Basic Books, 1991)
    • The Liability Maze (coeditor) (Brookings Institution, 1991)
    • Sandra Day O’Connor (Chelsea House Publishers, 1990)
    • Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988)
    • The Geodesic Network (U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1987)

    Education
    • Doctorate degree, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
    • Law degree, Harvard University

    Website

    http://www.digitalpowergroup.com

    Peter W. Huber

    Expert Opinion by
    Peter W. Huber

    Topic: Can countries be energy independent or should they plan for interdependency as the way of the future?

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