The Grand Challenge of the Energy Transition
How are we going to meet the challenge of functioning without fossil fuels?
Renewable Energy
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.
How Farms Across America Are Using Cow Manure For Renewable Energy
Many have heard about how cow farts and manure decomposition both produce harmful methane gas, which contributes to global warming pollution. What is less known, though, is that farms can convert cow manure into renewable biogas, which can power aspects of the farm and prevent that methane from reaching the atmosphere.
Solar Growth Explodes In October
…there were some major developments this week at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that are critically important to solar and renewable energy.
Sweet Victory for Clean, Public Energy in Boulder
Residents of Boulder, Colorado recently scored another huge victory in their pursuit of clean, publicly-owned energy. On November fifth, Measure 310, which was funded by energy giant Xcel and would have effectively halted progress on the project, was resoundingly struck down by voters.
‘Digesting’ Food Waste Can Turn Trash Into Money
But what if there was a way to not only keep food waste out of landfills but actually create something valuable out of what otherwise produces only methane and contaminated soil? There is, and the technology has been around for decades.
Surviving Climate Change: Is a Green Energy Revolution on the Global Agenda?
A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines…and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a devastating “airpocalypse,"…government leaders beware!
