The Renewable Energy and Waste Industries: 21st Century Confederates in Changing the Global Economy
The emissions prizes of both a renewable economy and a circular economy are huge.
Renewable Energy
UK Solar Beats Coal Over Half a Year
The UK’s solar panels generated more electricity than coal across the past six months combined, Carbon Brief analysis shows, rounding off a historic half-year of firsts.
“Anyone who Does not Understand What is Going on is not in the Right Place.”
September began with the USA and China symbolically ratifying the Paris Agreement in time for the G20 Summit, and ended with French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal tweeting “victoire!”…
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Politics Doesn’t Trump Physics, Nor the Economics of Collapse (part 2/3)
Politics can be egalitarian when going up Hubbert’s Curve, but it’s a whole different story when going down.
Carbon Tracker Analysis: ‘Renewables are Already Outcompeting Fossil Fuels’
Clean technologies are already cheaper, on average, than the incumbent fossil fuel technologies, and the advantage is widening, argued Anthony Hobley, chief executive of Carbon Tracker.
Timeline: The Past, Present and Future of Germany’s Energiewende
The Energiewende (energy transition) is an internationally recognised example of Germans’ love for compound nouns, where two previously unconnected words are joined at the hip.
The Sower’s Way: the Path for the Future
Our paper on "The Sower’s Way" has been published in the IOP Environmental Research Letters journal. It is an attempt to quantify the physical limits of the energy transition from fossils to renewables.
Just 16,000 Catenary Trucks Would Use All of California’s Electricity with only 2400 to 8300 Miles of Overhead Wires
It makes sense to electrify trucks since fuel from oil, coal, and natural gas is finite and biomass doesn’t scale up. Trucks make electricity possible.
The Energy-Water Nexus
Energy and water are inextricably linked: It takes energy to supply water, and it takes water to supply energy.
In the UK’s Scramble to “Keep the Lights On”, the New Government Should Listen to its Favourite Newspaper
Given that energy is the essential bedrock of a healthy economy, it is both frustrating and bewildering to watch a protracted national debate like the one accompanying the Brexit referendum and its aftermath and see how little time and attention is allotted to energy policy.
Tailwinds for Clean Energy and the Paris Agreement, Deepening Doldrums for the Incumbency
It was vaguely wonderful watching Presidents Obama and Xi cement their bids for a place in history, via climate change, by announcing American and Chinese ratification of the Paris Agreement on 3rd September 2016.
The Renewable Energy Future is Here – it’s Just Unevenly Distributed
Nation-wide, renewables (including distributed solar but not hydro) accounted for 10.2% of electricity sales, up from 8.4% the first half of 2015.
