Lost in traffic: does your time count?
Traffic congestion studies make for quick and easy news articles, but they don’t even begin to calculate the true time lost to car culture.
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Arthur Berman: “Peak Oil – The Hedonic Adjustment”
On this episode, petroleum geologist Arthur Berman returns to unpack the development and drawbacks of ‘peak oil’.
A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry
I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me.
Godalmighty, Exxon Knew Absolutely Everything
An important new study that came out a few minutes ago makes painfully clear precisely how much (and precisely how precisely) Exxon understood climate change, back in the days when it could have made a huge difference if they’d simply been honest.
Rethinking your energy usage (and some history of Plough Monday)
If it is unusual in the rest of the privileged world to even consider power usage, maybe Vermonters should start training folks in how to live with an increasingly expensive and feeble grid.
The uncertain future of industrial process heat: A mirror for our energy challenges
Almost everything we use is at some point processed using heat. Where that heat will come from in the future poses problems in a world depleting its fossil fuels and focusing on addressing climate change.
That’s Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into: We Cannot Leave Energy to the Mercy of the Market
Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst energy crisis since the 1970s.
How Britain fell in and out of love with roads
Welcome to the modern world. Just at the point in history when we needed to manage our consumption, we had installed all the conditions for a fossil-fuel driven boom in consumerism.
Nuclear Fusion: Don’t believe the hype!
So why all this attention toward the imagined potential for fusion energy? It is yet another attempt by those who believe that only a mega-scaled, technology-intensive approach can be a viable alternative to our current fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure.
Responses to Power in a Depleted World
Let the billionaires go off to their fitting ends. Maybe we can think more clearly without all the noise and stress they generate.
Peak US Oil Production Looms as the Domestic Shale Boom Ends
Finite resources are real constraints that no magical thinking or predicting by the industry can overcome.
Can Civilization Survive? These Studies Might Tell Us
Energy transition modeling is complicated and imperfect. But its conclusions so far should be an urgent wake-up call for policy makers everywhere. Hello Washington, Geneva, and Beijing: is anyone listening?
