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.
Renewable Energy
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.
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? – Paul Gilding in Conversation with Asher Miller
In this far ranging discussion, Paul and Asher discuss the importance of the psychology of winning within the climate movement and the evidence Paul sees — in the debate of ideas, in the renewable energy market, in the fear of investors — that the fossil fuel industry is on the cusp of becoming a dying industry.
100% Australian Renewable
What does 100% renewable electricity for the whole of Australia look like?
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CHAT: Power from the People – Webinar
Want to move away from Big Energy to community clean power but don’t know where to start? Learn from two community clean power visionaries, Lynn Benander of Co-op Power and Lyle Estill, founder of Piedmont Biofuels.
Our Clean Energy Future
Following on my recent post bidding Farewell to The Oil Drum, I’d like to have a look at what I view as our longer term future for energy production and consumption.
The Third Carbon Age
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.
Path to a Renewable Future: Distributed or Centralized?
To what degree is it necessary, possible or desirable to rely on a massive, state, national or global-scale infrastructure build-out to save us from climate catastrophe and energy depletion?
Energy transitions – headlines
•Dick Smith vs Tim Flannery, and the solar revolution •Solar Energy Friendly Communities Help Mitigate Soft Costs •The Energiewende: An introductory look at Germany’s energy transformation •Solar Power Can Provide One-Third of U.S. West’s Energy Needs •Support local communities to install renewable energy systems, urge MPs •Gamechanger: Next Generation Wind Turbines With Storage Are Cheap, Reliable And Brilliant •Pilot Projects Bury CO2 in Basalt •Is Natural Gas the Cheapest Path to Clean Grid Power?
A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis
A more radical approach to the crisis of climate change begins not with a long-term vision of an alternate society but with an honest engagement with the very compressed timeframe that current climate science implies.
Why Is a Solar Panel in New Jersey 15 Times More Valuable Than One in Arizona?
Where renewables do the most good isn’t necessarily where they are the most productive.
