How Hawaii is Transitioning From Oil Dependence to Solar Energy
Hawaii is a living laboratory for best practices in the integration of renewable energy into the smart grid of the future.
Renewable Energy
Solar Coin – a crypto currency designed to stimulate solar energy production
Solar Coin is a crypto currency specifically intended to stimulate solar energy production.
Obama’s Hopelessly Wrong on the Environment — Here’s the Reality of What We Face
Based what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
Cold-home casualties
The current ‘energy debate’ is in danger of descending into little more than an unsavoury slanging match.
Indian Microgrids Aim to Bring Millions out of Darkness
Powered by solar panels and biomass, microgrids are spreading slowly across India, where 300 million people live without electricity. But can these off-grid technologies be scaled-up to bring low-carbon power to tens of millions of people?
The Grand Challenge of the Energy Transition
How are we going to meet the challenge of functioning without fossil fuels?
Energy Crunch: Gas, wind and hot air
Energy round-up including peak oil, what next for UK shale gas, and wind power records.
The Psychology of Global Warming
One way to psychologically deal with global warming is denial. For those who profit from fossil fuel production or those who want unlimited use of fossil fuels, this is the primary way in which the issue is addressed.
Political Analysis – Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Richard Heinberg discusses the impact energy development on the environment along with ideas for transforming the energy narrative.
These Charts Happened: 2013 In Climate And Energy Graphs
From advances in renewable power to the clear impacts of climate change, to denying the lot of it, climate and energy issues in 2013 are sometimes best expressed through graphs.
Photovoltaics: new policy challenges for Europe
Using a simple cost model this article shows that PV technologies can indeed supply electricity to the grid for less than 0.10 €/kWh in large swaths of the continent…
Energy Crunch: Energy round-up: why the government should stick to its carbon budget
Weakening the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget has no legal basis and would be economically damaging.
