No Limits
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
Are there fundamental limits to the energy transition that will slow it down, or prevent us from decarbonizing our energy systems?
Tag: clean energy transition
A Rapid Transition is underway – but will it happen fast enough?
By Paul Allen, Rapid Transition Alliance
CAT began life as an off-grid test-bed community for experimenting with alternative types of technology and lifestyles in response to the 1970s oil crisis and an emerging concern about the environmental impacts of how we lived.
Resilient and Reliable Power
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
As areas like California and Texas struggle amid wildfires, extreme freezes, high winds and other challenges, and take measures to keep the lights on, it’s worth pausing to consider what “resilient” and “reliable” grid power means from the perspective of grid planning.
Some inconvenient questions: An open letter
By Antonio Turiel, 15/15\15
I am writing to you with the intention of raising a series of relevant questions regarding the current effort to undergo an Ecological Transition that must achieve the total decarbonization of Spain and Europe by 2050.
Diversifying Power – A MAHB Dialogue with Jennie C. Stephens
By Geoffrey Holland, Jennie C. Stephens, MAHB
“Diversity matters in climate and energy policy because for too long, concerns of vulnerable communities have been minimized and dismissed while white-male-dominated-fossil-fuel interests have profited from exploiting marginalized people. “
No Climate, No Deal: For Real?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
The running joke in Capital City for the past four and a half years is that every week is infrastructure week. It’s agreed by both Republicans and Democrats that US infrastructure is in woeful condition.
The jump to pumps: how Finland found an answer to heating homes
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
In chilly Scandinavia, Finland has shown the extraordinary potential of one of the less visible renewable energy technologies – heat pumps.
Skewered on the Horns of Plenty
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
How do we transition to a low carbon energy system when plentiful resources are no longer available? Our past Horn of Plenty has become a trap from which we in the developed nations increasingly find difficult to extract ourselves.
US Climate Policy Caught Between Two Worlds—Are We Smarter Than Buridan’s Ass?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Are fossil fuels and clean energy alternatives equally attractive choices as Aristotle’s food and water, Al-Ghazali’s dates, or Buridan’s bales of hay?
Mark Jacobson on the clean energy transition
By Adam Aron, Mark Jacobson, Resilience.org
We’re making progress on electric power, but the other sectors are slower. We need really aggressive laws, especially in industry, and also buildings and transportation.
The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy
By Michael Joy, The Conversation
As countries explore ways of decarbonising their economies, the mantra of “green growth” risks trapping us in a spiral of failures. Green growth is an oxymoron.
Why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict
By Alexandra Poncia, Paul Drummond, Michael Grubb, Carbon Brief
To achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, global energy systems must undergo a wholesale switch to low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies.