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Limits on the Grid, Part 1
[Episode #2] – Limits on the Grid – Part 1 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Guest Mackay Miller, Senior Research Analyst at NREL. @mackaymiller Links NREL: Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) (2012) NREL: Power Systems of the Future (May 2015) Nelder: Designing the grid for renewables (2012) Nelder: Wind to Double and Solar to Triple in 6 Years, Says […]
The stuff problem
The stuff problem ‘Yes to renewables!’ Hundreds rallied outside the Victorian Parliament House, Melbourne, 10 December 2013. Takver under a Creative Commons Licence How much mined material will we need to build a 100-per-cent renewable world? Danny Chivers works it out. The problem with wind turbines, solar panels, ground-source heat pumps and electric cars is that they’re all made of […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 3
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 3 Energy – Demand Collapse Followed by Supply Collapse As we have noted many times, energy is the master resource, and has been the primary driver of an expansion dating back to the beginning of the industrial revolution. In fossil fuels humanity discovered the ‘holy grail’ […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1 Intro A great deal of intelligence is invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow, 1976 More and more people (although not nearly enough) are coming to recognise that humanity cannot continue on its current trajectory, as the limits we face […]
TSHTF Podcast with Nicole Foss, Raúl Ilargi Meijer & RE
TSHTF Podcast with Nicole Foss, Raúl Ilargi Meijer & RE Nicole and I did an interview with Reverse Engineer at the Doomstead Diner a few nights ago. I haven’t listened to it yet, but he seems to think it was, let’s say, entertaining yet insightful. Cheerful in the face of collapse. Here’s what Reverse Engineer wrote about […]
The Saudi Oil Price War Is Backfiring
The Saudi Oil Price War Is Backfiring Saudi Arabia has long enjoyed the status of being the top crude oil exporter in the world. With record production of 10.564 million barrels per day in June 2015, Saudi Arabia has been one of the major driving forces behind the current oil price slump. The Saudis have […]
Reshuffling Eurasia’s Energy Deck — Iran, China and Pipelineistan
Reshuffling Eurasia’s Energy Deck — Iran, China and Pipelineistan Pipelineistan – the prime Eurasian energy chessboard — never sleeps. Recently, it’s Russia that has scored big on all fronts; two monster gas deals sealed with China last year; the launch of Turk Stream replacing South Stream; and the doubling of Nord Stream to Germany. Now, with […]
Energy, the repressed: Paging Dr. Freud
Energy, the repressed: Paging Dr. Freud Jeremy Rifkin announced the end of work in a book by that title in 1995. Today, we are once again being told that the end of work is nigh. The Atlantic Monthly tells us so in a piece entitled, “A World Without Work.” Automation and computer technology will bring unimaginable change and prosperity–and result in […]
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis Maybe we shouldn’t take our daily corporate samples too seriously. Maybe they don’t adequately represent the global economy. So IBM’s revenues last quarter plunged 13% from a year ago. It blamed China and the dollar, among other culprits. But IBM’s revenues have dropped for 13 quarters in a […]
Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power
Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake Let’s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s “Yellow Taxi” to fit this moment in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. There, Big Energy seems determined to turn paradise, if not into a parking lot, then into a massive storage […]
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal A recent battle over imposing a “climate fee” on coal-fired power plants highlights Germany’s continuing paradox: Even as the nation aspires to be a renewable energy leader, it is exploiting its vast reserves of dirty brown coal. The hole in the landscape that opens up […]
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems One of the best ways to address climate change To environmental activist Bill McKibben, it’s all about math. The planet has warmed 1 degree Celsius over the past few decades and is on track to rise another 4 to 5 before the end of the century. […]
What Would A Saudi-Russian Partnership Mean For World Energy?
What Would A Saudi-Russian Partnership Mean For World Energy? What happens when two nations, that together account for more than fourth quarter of global oil production, begin collaborating on future energy projects? Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Prince Mohammad in St. Petersburg on June 18 at a meeting in which Saudi Arabia and Russia, […]
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Is A Sincere Call For Climate Action, Economic Justice
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Is A Sincere Call For Climate Action, Economic Justice Pope Francis has released his long awaited encyclical, or teaching document, on climate justice and the environment, and it flies in the face of everything climate deniers stand for. The encyclical is officially called “Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home,” and it […]
