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People power: everyday Australians are building their own renewables projects, and you can too
People power: everyday Australians are building their own renewables projects, and you can too In the town of Goulburn in southern New South Wales, an energy revolution is brewing. The community has come together to build its own 4,000-panel solar farm – everyday citizens are invited to buy shares in the venture and reap the rewards. Goulburn […]
UK Grid Warns Of Electricity Shortage Due To Drop In Wind
UK Grid Warns Of Electricity Shortage Due To Drop In Wind The UK’s electricity grid operator has warned of a short supply over the next few days due to generator outages and a lull in autumn winds. The National Grid said on Oct. 14 that it was exploring various measures to create a buffer to avoid potential outages, like […]
U.S., European Oil Majors Could Create Supply Crisis With Renewables Push – Russia’s Rosneft
U.S., European Oil Majors Could Create Supply Crisis With Renewables Push – Russia’s Rosneft Rosneft is looking to double down on hydrocarbons and extract up to 5 billion tons of light-quality oil in the Arctic.Alexander Rumin / TASS U.S. and European oil majors’ commitment to moving away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy threatens oil […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V Pompeii (1993) Photo by author Yet another of my comments for an article on The Tyee regarding energy and how we should approach our coming dilemmas. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/10/02/BC-Needs-Wartime-Approach-Climate-Emergency/ _____ While I certainly appreciate the need to ‘correct’ our global industrial civilization’s path from its current trajectory there is an obvious ‘problem’ with […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing fossil fuel energy use for a nation on the basis of either a contracting carbon emission budget […]
THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco
THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco How does Australia deal with the terrible and chaotic wind and solar power intermittency problem in its electric grid? How about with massive diesel engines used to power large ships?? Sound crazy? Not in Australia. If a country is going to ramp […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Energies 2020, 13(17), 4304; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13174304 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Energy: Earth System Science Approaches 2020) Download PDF Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing […]
California’s Renewable Energy Conundrum
California’s Renewable Energy Conundrum Amid a heatwave in the West, the largest U.S. solar state, California, is grappling with power issues and with keeping its electricity grid stable as demand exceeds supply. And in a looming renewable future, those power disruptions just might be a sign of things to come. California energy consumers were warned of rolling […]
Nobody takes the renewable energy transition seriously
Nobody takes the renewable energy transition seriously “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and regions that claim to be working toward an energy transition are failing […]
End Game for Green Utopia
End Game for Green Utopia Wind Turbines, Tehachapi Pass. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. On these two opposing types of responses to the movie “Planet Of The Humans”: PRO: “The key, however, is that all these [‘greenish’] energy policies have to be carried out after capitalism has been wiped out and under conditions where production is […]
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge Raw Realities of Renewable Energy Something that long hasn’t set well with me in the green movement is that so much of it is based on marketable products. For example, not long ago, the world was set alight by the idea of plant-based soda bottles. It was as if making plastic […]
Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews
Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews If you haven’t seen the latest (and arguably the most contentious) documentary on renewable energy, be prepared for an aftertaste of mixed feelings. Joining hands with the controversial Michael Moore, environmentalist and filmmaker Jeff Gibbs has sent an eerie message that is now somewhat dividing […]
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans” So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is […]
Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
