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?
Renewable Energy
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.
Renewables: The Next Fracking?
As a general rule, in fact, the less direct experience a given person has living with solar and wind power, the more likely that person is to buy into the sort of green cornucopianism that insists that sun, wind, and other renewable resources can provide everyone on the planet with a middle class American lifestyle.
Democratic Energy and Climate Change
The environmental crisis, provoked by human activity, is of much bigger magnitude than any of the other crises we have known up till now.
Renewables Could Outcompete Costly, Risky LNG, Investors Warned
A new industry report warns investors, governments and regulators that renewable forms of energy could outcompete high-cost and high-risk liquefied natural gas projects.
Microgrids Paving the Way for Distributed Energy
The energy market in the US is getting more diversified as consumers shift their habits by producing more electricity autonomously while increasing environmental regulation is impacting the main grid.
We are at Peak Oil now; we need very low-cost energy to fix it
We are hitting something similar to “Peak Oil” right now.
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable
Sixty-five percent of the world’s coal production is unprofitable at today’s prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded.
