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If On A Winter’s Night: Energy in the 2020s and Beyond

Beginning In his 1980 novel, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino puts you, the reader, as the

0000 “Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilization or in a single individual, those must have

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

“Philip Larkin famously proposed that what will survive of us is love. Wrong. What will survive of us is plastic,

BP’s latest Energy Outlook shows us our fossil-fuel-dominated energy future – unless we intervene with technology and policy “…when oil

“In the long run, decarbonisation could be a way of reinvigorating capitalism. Mass electrification, from zero-carbon sources, could stimulate new

With the rapid growth of new energy technologies, and China’s sudden pivot from coal, the solution to the world’s long-term

Two great industrial energy systems are now in place: the thermal, based on extracted fuels, and the universal, based on

157,000 Two Big picture from BP’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Primary energy grew by 2.2% in 2017 to 157,000

“The future is already here – it’s just not adequately described” (dolllarsperbbl after William Gibson) Energy Transitions Do Not