Electricity – Apr 29
Smart Grid – “Enabler of the New Energy Economy”
An Aged Electric Grid Looks To A Brighter Future
‘Vampire’ energy use is taking a bite out of your wallet
Energy Infrastructure
United States – Apr 23
U.S. Congress begins drive for climate change bill
U.S. May Never Need More Nuclear, Coal Plants, FERC Head Says
US Natural Gas Prices: “The Fix is Underway”
Space-based solar power ?
If companies can collect solar energy in space and transmit it to earth they will have opened up a significant new energy resource. The concept of space based solar power was first proposed in 1941 by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. Most skeptics focus purely on the unfavorable economics.
The “peak oil disruptor” – 4 rules to address the “global energy transition”
1) Don’t invest in something that could become a stranded asset 2) Focus on strategies that reduce emissions and oil constraints 3) Have the highest energy productivity 4) Keep radical options open
ODAC Newsletter – 17 Apr
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
The peak oil crisis: sustainability
There is more to the sustainability problem than just renewable energy, transportation and food – and that is our infrastructure. Large agglomerations of people living under reasonable conditions in the 21st simply cannot continue in a healthy, sustainable state without clean water, sewage, electricity, communications, a source of warmth and a transportation network to move life-sustaining supplies about.
United States – Apr 7
Kunstler: Strange Days
Americans Support Wide Array of Proposed Energy Policies, but Not Yet Ready to Make Tradeoffs
LNG promoters should forget about California
The unbearable lightness of information
This decade was the one that was supposed to usher in the era when bits and bytes would replace tons and barrels as the measure of what an economy does. The information economy would eclipse the economy of blast furnaces and railcars.
ODAC Newsletter – 27 Mar
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Energy limits to growth: integrating energy sources – part III
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
ODAC Newsletter – 6 Mar
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Feb
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
