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Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela

Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela It’s fashionable these days to blame everything that goes wrong with anything on human interference with the climate, and we had yet another example last week when President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela fingered drought, El Niño and global warming as the reasons Venezuela’s lights keep going out. In this […]

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Is large-scale energy storage dead?

Is large-scale energy storage dead? Many countries have committed to filling large percentages of their future electricity demand with intermittent renewable energy, and to do so they will need long-term energy storage in the terawatt-hours range. But the modules they are now installing store only megawatt-hours of energy. Why are they doing this? This post […]

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Blowout Week 118

Blowout Week 118 This week we focus on solar power in the United States. A report by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory has concluded that the country can fill 39% of its electricity needs with rooftop solar PV alone. And that doesn’t include the “immense potential” of ground-mounted PV units. Is an all-solar America […]

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Low oil prices, budget deficits and OPEC

Low oil prices, budget deficits and OPEC In November 2014 the OPEC countries met in Vienna and agreed to keep pumping oil to maintain their market share rather than cut production to support the oil price. In a postwritten a month later I addressed the question of how these countries were positioned to withstand an extended […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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