Our Economic Growth System is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way
We don’t just extract fossil fuels. Instead, whether we intend to or not, we get a lot of other things as well: rising debt, rising pollution, and a more complex economy.
Renewable Energy
Renewables Ideas Make World of Difference
Carbon-negative cars, cost-effective organic solar cells and electricity from waste treatment are possible clean energy options as scientists stretch the laws of physics.
A Snapshot of Transition in Ireland: the Fight for Community Energy
For many years energy, climate change or Transition were not on people’s radar in Ireland, but circumstances have been changing and people are now waking up to our energy challenges.
A Case Study of Small Hydropower
Small hydropower (<10 MW) has been gaining ground as a renewable energy source that could play a significant role in both reducing our fossil fuel use in many developed and developing countries and in helping some regions of the world that are currently handicapped by inadequate electricity supplies.
Renewable Energy Growth Blows EIA Forecasts Out of the Water, Again
Another year, another U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) assessment report that makes the agencies own forecasters look foolish.
Energy Access for the Developing World
What’s the best way to bring energy to those in the developing world who lack it?
Grid Architecture of the Future
What kind of grid architecture and markets will we need in order to actually operate the distributed, decentralized grid of the future?
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
Since the renewable energy revolution will require trading our currently dominant energy sources (fossil fuels) for alternative ones that have different characteristics, there are likely to be some hefty challenges along the way.
Freight expectations
When Trucks Stop Running makes a convincing case that the US is scarily dependent on truck transportation, and renewable energies will not power a freight system like the one we rely on today. But does this mean a crisis is just around the corner?
How an Alternative School in India has been running on Alternative Energy since the 1980s
When we first heard about Sholai School, located amidst the pristine nature of the Palani Hills in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, we were so captivated by its description that we decided to take a local bus to visit the establishment.
Europe’s Struggle to Switch on Low-carbon Heating
Heating and cooling is the unglamorous consumer of half of the EU’s energy, with 75% of this generated from fossil fuels. Only 25% is generated from low-carbon sources.
Is Our Future Possible?
SUMMARY: "Reality 101" with Nate Hagens, our minds, our world, the fossil trap. Scientists Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald of NOAA and Chris Clack of CIRES: yes we can power America with solar and wind power.
