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Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World”

Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites vs. the “normies” C.P. Snow in 1977. Photo: Bern Schwartz, National Portrait Gallery. In 1959, British novelist and physical chemist C.P. Snow gave a […]

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Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come

Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come Weather-dependent generation sources are…weather dependent: Last year, despite adding 6.2 GW of new capacity, U.S. wind production dropped by 2.1%. Damaged wind turbines at the Punta Lima wind project, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 2018. Photo: Wikipedia. Three years ago, in the wake of Winter Storm Uri, the alt-energy lobby and […]

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Net-Zero Is Pulling the Plug on America’s Electrical ‘Life Support System,’ New Documentary Says

Net-Zero Is Pulling the Plug on America’s Electrical ‘Life Support System,’ New Documentary Says ‘We are seeing the grid’s reliability, resilience and affordability all declining,’ filmmaker Robert Bryce said. Electricity is among the most essential sources of America’s unparalleled prosperity and productivity; it is also the greatest vulnerability. The United States has become so utterly […]

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The Power Hungry Podcast: Gail Tverberg

The Power Hungry Podcast: Gail Tverberg

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Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’ Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers. Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce […]

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March 28, 2019 Book review of Bryce’s “Power hungry: the myths of green energy and the real fuels of the future”

March 28, 2019 Book review of Bryce’s “Power hungry: the myths of green energy and the real fuels of the future” Preface.  This is a book review of: Robert Bryce. 2009. Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future. This is a brilliant book, very funny at times, a […]

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