Presenting Our Renewable Future
David Fridley and Richard Heinberg present on our energy future.
Renewable Energy
Distributed Renewables in Latin America and Beyond
Latin America has had one of the fastest-growing renewable energy markets on the planet for the past several years, but nobody ever talks about it.
So where are the battery electric trucks?
Heavy-duty trucks are the main engines of civilization….If trucks stopped running, businesses would shut down within a week.
Worrying Deceleration In The Growth Rate of Wind & Solar
Scale and complexity issues are becoming a significant impediment to maintaining wind and solar growth rates.
Tiptoeing Through the Renewable Energy Minefield
As just about everyone knows, there are gaping chasms separating the worldviews of fossil fuel promoters, nuclear power advocates, and renewable energy supporters.
In Iowa, A Bipartisan Push to Become Leader in Wind Energy
Thanks to state officials who have long supported renewables, Iowa now leads all U.S. states in the percentage of its energy produced from wind. Big companies, including Facebook and Google, are taking notice and cite clean energy as a major reason for locating new facilities there.
Denmark’s Energy Transition
In percentage terms, Denmark is the world leader in energy transition, as well as the king of wind power.
Let Nature be Nature
We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.
A Renewable Energy Economy will Create More Jobs. Is That a Good Thing?
The 20th century fossil-fueled economic growth spurt happened not because the energy industry created many jobs, but because it created very few jobs.
The Global Energy Transformation and Innovation: the Case of Solarcentury and Sunstation
The solar revolution will continue to unfold, meanwhile, and the better that innovation teams in the clean energy industries deploy their design magic – in the broadest possible sense of that word – the quicker it will all accelerate.
But What’s the REAL Energy Return of Photovoltaic Energy?
According to a recent, comprehensive study of the scientific literature (1), the average energy return on energy invested (EROEI) of the most common photovoltaic technology (polycrystalline Si) is 11-12. A far cry from the legend of the “EROI smaller than one” that’s making the rounds in the Web.
Bristol Energy Cooperative: “it felt right for us to be ambitious”
When we fit solar on community buildings, the buildings get cheaper and greener electricity, local people can obviously invest in what we’re doing, and we’ve set up a community fund that will cross-subsidise other energy projects, and indeed, community projects more generally.
