Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity
Many people are hoping for wind and solar PV to transform grid electricity in a favorable way. Is this really possible?
Renewable Energy
The Challenges & Opportunities in the Transition to 100% Renewable Energy
Post Carbon Institute Fellows Richard Heinberg and David Fridley gave a joint presentation to the Security & Sustainability Forum—to share the key findings and takeaways that emerged from the analysis they conducted to co-author Our Renewable Future.
Starting Over
What if we didn’t have to work around the grid we have today, with all of its inertia and incumbents and inflexibility?
Five Billion Years of Energy Supply: the “Stereosphere” and the Upcoming Photovoltaic Revolution
Both the biosphere and the stereosphere use solar light as the energy potential necessary to keep the metabolic cycle going and they build-up metabolic structures using nutrients taken from the earth’s surface environment.
Facts and Falsehoods in Energy Transition
We…try to separate fact from falsehoods in this wide-ranging interview. It might even change your mind about a few things.
State of The Transition, July 2016: Might the fossil fuel industries implode faster than the clean energy industries can grow to replace them?
Might it be that the ongoing implosion of fossil fuel industries will happen much faster than the necessarily explosive transition to solutions?
Thoughts on Significance of Solar Impulse as it Finishes Epic Round-the-World Trip
My interview on BBC World Service Newshour: the heroism of the adventurer pilots, Bertrand Picard and Andre Borschberg, and the feeling on the ground of what their beautiful story means – at least for many in the clean energy industries.
Planned Gas Pipeline Construction on East Coast Puts Climate at Risk: Report
Nineteen now-pending pipeline projects, if constructed, would let enough natural gas flow out of the Appalachian basin to cause the entire US to blow through its climate pledges, ushering the world into more than 2 degrees Celsius of global warming, a newly released report by Oil Change International concludes.
An Industrial Strategy for Energy
What’s also clear is that while nuclear power is tending to get more expensive, wind and solar get cheaper and cheaper every year.
The Role of Development Banks in Energy Transition
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) like the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank are publicly committed to ending energy poverty and enabling energy access to the developing world.
Hooked! The Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life
Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable forms of energy are expanding far more quickly than anyone expected, ensuring that these systems will provide an ever-increasing share of our future energy supply.
What We as a People Can Do
Clearly, individuals, households, communities, and nongovernmental organizations cannot merely stand by and hope that political leaders somehow find the wherewithal at the last moment (if it is not already too late) to halt our descent into climate chaos.
