Responses to Power in a Depleted World
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Let the billionaires go off to their fitting ends. Maybe we can think more clearly without all the noise and stress they generate.
Tag: energy transition
The Energy Transition Narrative
By James R. Martin, The R-word
When I go in search of figures, numbers, data, about energy in relation to ecology and economy, I’m often brought to the website of the very same EPA whose lead scientist studying sewage sludge faked his science and unleashed a toxic torrent upon the world.
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
By Richard Heinberg, Independent Media Institute
With the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government is illogically encouraging the increasing use of fossil fuels—in order to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
Energy transition and post-growth scenarios
By Óscar Carpintero, Jaime Nieto, Resilience.org
We are living in a context today in which the physical limits, natural resource constraints, and conditions of overshoot associated with the expansion of the dominant system of production and consumption are becoming increasingly clear.
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?
Inflation, Scarcity and the Road to Survival
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Those communities that reject business as usual and cut their energy spending and all the materialist values that go with it, just might survive the long emergency and write a different ending to this story.
In today’s time of energy and climate crisis, here’s the double punch sustainable finance needs to deliver
By Nick Robins, Rapid Transition Alliance
Soaring energy prices, the war in Ukraine and further stark evidence from the IPCC on the severity of the climate threat requires sustainable finance to move into a new phase.
Mapped: Europe’s Fossil Fuel-Backed Hydrogen Lobby
By Alice Wright, DeSmog Blog
There is a clear tension between the optimism of hydrogen lobbyists who see a place for it throughout the economy, and the scepticism of climate experts who point to electrification as the better option in many contexts and highlight the potentially significant climate footprint of blue hydrogen.
On “Renewables”
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
One thing is certain: “renewables” is not the generic solution. Those who give it don’t know what the problem is.
Your gas tank is not an oil well. Your battery will not be a power plant.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
But if we’re ready for a serious response to the climate emergency, we should be rapidly curtailing both the manufacture and use of cars, and making the remaining vehicles only as big and heavy as they actually need to be.
A Slow Take on the Texas Blackout
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
What happened in Texas is an incredibly complex story involving many factors, from a simple lack of weatherization, to flaws in the state’s electricity market structure, to failed governance.
Hydrogen Economy 2.0 Part 1
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
In this episode, we present part one of a two-part, three-hour interview with Dr. Simon Evans, the deputy editor and policy editor for Carbon Brief, in which he shares their findings from dozens of interviews they conducted with experts who are knowledgeable about hydrogen’s potential, as well as from dozens of research reports and other resources.