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Why the World’s Appetite for Oil Will Peak Soon
Why the World’s Appetite for Oil Will Peak Soon The conventional wisdom about steadily rising demand is wrong. Within two decades, global oil use will start to fall. When it comes to oil demand, the conventional wisdom is clear: Population growth and a rising global middle class guarantee that demand—and prices—will rise over the coming […]
Texas Town First Of Many To Switch To 100% Renewable Power
Texas Town First Of Many To Switch To 100% Renewable Power On March 18 the city of Georgetown, Texas announced that it would soon be generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Georgetown agreed to purchase the power from a 150-megawatt solar farm that is to be constructed by SunEdison and online in 2016. Coupled […]
Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations
Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations Rethinking the grid is quickly emerging as one of the hottest topics. The concept of our own personal power stations can be seductive…and just might save us a whole lot of money too. “Get big or get out!” Those were the famous, and controversial, words of Earl Butz, Secretary […]
Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future
Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-richard-heinberg-on-our-renewable-future/ Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there. He is the author of ten books including: – Snake Oil (July 2013) – The End of Growth (August 2011) – Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) – The Party’s Over: Oil, War […]
‘Fighting for the Places We Love’: A Vision for the Climate Battles to Come
‘Fighting for the Places We Love’: A Vision for the Climate Battles to Come Ahead of upcoming Global Divestment Day, a conversation between author Naomi Klein and 350.org executive director May Boeve CD editor’s note: The following conversation between Naomi Klein and May Boeve took place as an online webinar hosted by 350.org last week in advance of […]
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply—leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant CO2 […]
Our Renewable Future
Our Renewable Future Or, What I’ve Learned in 12 Years Writing about Energy (7000 words, about 25 minutes reading time) Folks who pay attention to energy and climate issues are regularly treated to two competing depictions of society’s energy options.* On one hand, the fossil fuel industry claims that its products deliver unique economic benefits, and […]
March of the Squirrels
March of the Squirrels Prediction is a difficult business at the best of times, but the difficulties seem to change from one era to another. Just now, at least for me, the biggest challenge is staying in front of the headlines. So far, the crash of 2015 is running precisely to spec. Smaller companies in the […]
Scotland’s Wind Dream May Turn Into A Nightmare
Scotland’s Wind Dream May Turn Into A Nightmare I last looked into the details and consequences of Scottish energy policy in the pre-referendum post Scotch on the ROCs. The expansion of Scottish renewables is progressing at breakneck speed and the purpose of this post is to update on where we are and where we are heading […]
Renewables Highly Competitive Though Not Yet At Scale | EnergyPolicyForum
Renewables Highly Competitive Though Not Yet At Scale | EnergyPolicyForum. Investment in renewables worldwide has picked up steam. It is possible that total clean energy capacity installed in 2014 will be greater in non-OECD countries than developed nations for the first time. Oil and gas companies have long touted an expected upward growth trajectory in […]
Resource Insights: The high cost of low-priced oil
Resource Insights: The high cost of low-priced oil. As a consumer of oil, you may regard recent sharp declines in the world oil price as a blessing. But… If you work in the oil industry, you will not. If you work in the renewable energy industry, you will not. If you work in the energy […]
Will New Technologies Give Critical Boost to Solar Power? by Cheryl Katz: Yale Environment 360
Will New Technologies Give Critical Boost to Solar Power? by Cheryl Katz: Yale Environment 360. Today, despite recent progress, solar power accounts for about one percent of the world’s energy mix. Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that solar energy, most of it generated by decentralized “rooftop” photovoltaic systems, could well become the world’s single […]
Wind Offers a Healthy Way to Generate Power | David Suzuki
Wind Offers a Healthy Way to Generate Power | David Suzuki. There’s no free ride when it comes to generating energy. Even the cleanest sources have environmental consequences. Materials for all power-generating facilities have to be obtained and transported, and infrastructure must be built, maintained and eventually decommissioned. Wind turbines take up space and can harm wildlife. Hydro […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Renewable energy: does it need critically rare materials?
RESOURCE CRISIS: Renewable energy: does it need critically rare materials?. Renewable energy, by definition, is inexhaustible or, at least, it can tap the sun’s energy for times that can be considered infinite from our viewpoint. However, renewable energy doesn’t live of sun alone. It needs metals, semiconductors, ceramics and more. A criticism often leveled against renewable energy […]
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions | Our Finite World
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions | Our Finite World. Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables and other green solutions? I think that there are more pitfalls than many realize. Pitfall 1. Green solutions tend to push us from one set of resources […]
