Tag: economics

Is the Fast Energy Transition Falsifiable?

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right: a single experiment can prove me wrong”. Albert Einstein It seems

Paper 1 – The Outside View The energy industry is going through a major transition comprising three key events: the

Note – A version of this is available in pdf format in the White Papers section of the site SUMMARY Renewables

We’ve covered big oil’s structural problems with big projects in a number of posts this year – see Megafragility for example.

A coming change in energy provision, from extraction to manufacturing, that should reduce long-term energy costs Earlier this month Ben

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the

History is likely to view the last decade of conventional, mega-scale oil and gas investment as another bad commodity binge

“Well, in OUR country,’ said Alice, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else – if you ran very fast for a

Note: Whenever a post clearly makes a forecast, I will attempt to frame it specifically and also quantify the likelihood

As goes Exxon, so goes international oil and gas “People say ‘Well, you’re not growing’,” he said. “That just tells you