Turning electricity into food
You know that when energy in agriculture is discussed, the paradigm is energy production in the form of biofuels. But the idea of biofuels manufactured from agricultural products is monumentally wrong.
Renewable Energy
Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement
As Rob Hopkins explained to a small NYC audience, the Transition movement is increasingly focused on local economic development. Reports on localizing food production, energy conservation and renewable energy capacity set out next steps toward a new green economy.
We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
Can renewables really replace fossil fuels? If so, are we willing to do what’s necessary to get there?
Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”
No matter who’s right in the peak oil debates, there has always been easily enough oil and gas, combined with coal, to wreck the climate and bring down civilisation.
A Cubic Mile of Oil: Facilitating the Shift to Cleaner Energy Sources
A Cubic Mile of Oil, by Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, and Ripudaman Malhotra, illuminates the history, sources, and way forward for global energy.
Will Offshore Wind Finally Take Off on U.S. East Coast?
After years of delays and legal battles, several offshore wind projects seem poised to be launched off the U.S. East Coast.
Nonrenewable Renewables?
What does renewable energy mean? This question isn’t as simple as it sounds.
If we have to use fossil fuels to manufacture renewable plants, doesn’t it mean that renewables are useless?
In this post, Marco Raugei makes a fundamental point about an often raised question: if we have to use fossil fuels to manufacture renewable plants, doesn’t it mean that renewables are useless?
Energy transitions – headlines
•Swedish pension funds urged to dump fossil fuel holdings •Romantic Germany risks economic decline as green dream spoils •German Energy Storage Plan Could Trigger New Market Boom •Buying Local Solar Makes Florida City a World Leader •Constituency voices: realising the potential of community energy [Report]California’s Unusual Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Our Fossil-Fueled Future
If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
The Economic and Political Consequences of the Last 10 Years of Renewable Energy Development
A lot of rather unusual things have been happening in the Germany power sector lately, from negative prices, to utilities closing down brand new power plants and, naturally, a ferocious debate as to whether to cut support for renewable energy (as has already been done in Spain).
‘Solar Gardens’ Put Clean Energy Within Reach Of Low-Income Families
Everyone deserves access to clean energy — especially those living in disadvantaged communities.
