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Articles, position papers and public writing from H2GHUB and its chairman.
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Latest articles
Hydrogen in southern Tunisia: I, Imed Derouiche, stand by my word — I don't believe in it (article in French)
Rejects the announced configuration of the southern mega-project on infrastructure and marine-brine grounds, and proposes production near the TransMed corridor, cooperation with Algeria, and a Tunisian Hydrogen Council.
Tunisia: must we wait for darkness to produce light? (article in French)
Proposes temporary, regulated distributed backup generation coordinated by STEG to cover the 2027–2030 summer electricity risk while permanent capacity is built.
Before we lose our bearings: the alpha and omega of ELMED (article in French)
Asks whether the ELMED interconnection will export Tunisian electricity or import Italian power for data centres, and argues for a Tunisia-first strategy.
Without water, neither humans nor artificial intelligence will survive (article in French)
Artificial intelligence depends materially on water and energy; explores repurposing pipeline corridors, water transfers, desalination and multi-use infrastructure.
From Dürrenmatt to AI: who will be left on the platform? (article in French)
Africa risks remaining a consumer of artificial intelligence unless it invests in skills, computing, energy and research, within a Euro-African partnership.
President Tebboune and I have one thing in common: we believe in green hydrogen (article in French)
Connects Algeria's SoutH2 corridor vision with research on roughly 3 GW of renewable potential in northern Tunisia and a regional green hydrogen corridor.
Whoever masters energy, water and hydrogen will master artificial intelligence (article in French)
The next AI race will be constrained by electricity, water and hydrogen; proposes integrated AI Energy Parks for North Africa and the Middle East.
Bizerte: from the old refinery to a Mediterranean laboratory for artificial intelligence (article in French)
Envisions Bizerte combining Medusa connectivity, renewable energy, hydrogen and storage with industrial reconversion to become a Mediterranean digital laboratory.
Kerosene: the energy Achilles' heel in wartime (article in French)
Aviation kerosene is a strategically irreplaceable and vulnerable fuel whose disruption affects military power, logistics, tourism and trade.
Why gas prices remain under pressure despite an apparent supply surplus (article in French)
Persistently volatile gas prices come from regional infrastructure constraints, LNG marginal pricing, geopolitical risk, storage and financialisation — not simply supply volumes.
Algeria takes its seat on the throne of world gas (article in French)
Presents Algeria as a reliable Euro-Mediterranean gas actor whose gas, shale potential, hydrogen, infrastructure and research could combine into a major energy power.
The barrel under strain: when geopolitics redraws the oil market (article in French)
Links a Brent spike to Hormuz risk, speculation and supply fragility, and outlines de-escalation, prolonged tension and major-shock scenarios.
Hormuz: the price of risk (article in French)
Quantifies how even a partial disruption of the Hormuz corridor could overwhelm spare capacity and stocks, creating a global inflationary shock.
Tunisia 2030: the virtual power plant, key to our energy sovereignty (article in French)
Advocates a national virtual power plant aggregating solar, batteries and flexible loads to raise renewables, cut gas imports and support data centres.
India asserts itself as an AI power: Tunisia faces its strategic choice (article in French)
Uses India's AI build-out to urge Tunisia to choose between technological consumption and regional data-centre, training and infrastructure sovereignty.
Artificial intelligence could redraw the map of human migration (article in French)
Future economic and human flows may follow reliable, affordable electricity, because AI and data centres make electrons a territorial advantage.
Can AI code its own consciousness? (article in French)
A philosophical essay arguing that self-modifying code and measurable intelligence do not amount to lived consciousness.
When science reaches its limit… (article in French)
Science depends on human consciousness and must recognise the conceptual limits of explaining experience through measurement and equations alone.
In Davos, Larry Fink, or the end of the comfortable narrative (article in French)
Reads Larry Fink's Davos message as the end of easy capital, globalisation and ESG narratives, and the arrival of an economy of constraint and selection.
Tunisia after shale gas: will it say no to data centres? (article in French)
Compares the water and electricity demand of data centres with the rejected shale-gas model, and calls for strict resource, sovereignty and local-benefit conditions.
CBAM: Europe shuts the carbon door — and redraws the rules of world trade (article in French)
The European carbon border adjustment mechanism turns embedded carbon into a condition of trade access, and may create a green hydrogen opening for Tunisia and Algeria.
When a mother entrusts her child to eternity (article in French)
A personal memorial essay on the death of a younger brother, and on a mother's grief, faith and enduring love.
2026: energy between a fragile lull, the digital revolution and opportunities for North Africa (article in French)
Forecasts relative calm in energy prices alongside deeper volatility, rising AI electricity demand, undersized grids, and a green hydrogen opening for North Africa.
United States – China: the new cold war of artificial intelligence (article in French)
Frames US–China competition in artificial intelligence as a new cold war driven by computing power, energy, state strategy and governance risk.
The energy bottlenecks of AI infrastructure: lessons from Santa Clara (article in French)
Rapid growth in AI and cloud infrastructure is constrained by electricity supply and grid bottlenecks, examined through the case of Santa Clara.
Earlier
Articles published before October 2025.
- Argentina's shale gas jackpot, thanks to the IMF and the World Bank (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Travel before it's too late!!!! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Dance with Death (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Climate warming in Tunisia: a major challenge and a need to act (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Green hydrogen, the gold slipping away from us (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Ukraine: oil, the wound and the trap! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Decarbonising hydrocarbon exploration (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Waste, an inexhaustible reservoir for hydrogen production (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- “Morocco has invested in energy with conviction and a vision for the future” (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Green hydrogen, a new engine to save the Tunisian economy (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- COVID-19, Apocalypse now!!!! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Open letter to Mr Ferid Belhaj (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- In the COVID lottery, I drew the wrong ticket! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Phosphate versus democracy (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- The 7 deadly sins of Ennahdha (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Al Kamour, or the trap of an agreement and of promises that cannot be kept (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Fakhfekh, a textbook case and a real opportunity for Tunisia (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- A mask that hides fear (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- SOS, economy! Free kerosene to save the world (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- The statesman, sworn enemy of politicians and populists! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- The court of history (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- The Earth on pause, and yet it turns! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Roll on Covid-0! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- A matrix “con-finement” to get out of the crisis (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- The 200 DT bonus, the bad good measure! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- In the names of oil, gas and the pharmaceutical laboratories! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- Coronavirus, a pandemic in the internet bubble! (article in French)Tunisie Numérique
- “Au cœur de la Tunisie will fight poverty” (article in French)Tunisie Numérique