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
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Hysteresis: World oil demand peaked in 2019.
Demand for world oil, but perhaps not world energy, peaked in 2019. Covid-19 has radically shifted the energy demand system:
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From Carbon to Code: the First Energy Transition and the Triumph of Optimism
0000 “Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilization or in a single individual, those must have
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The Energy Transition’s Third Act: Crisis
The Energy Transition has Entered its Third Act: Crisis In a good, but flawed paper from Bloomberg NEF, we can
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Changing our energy legacy
“Philip Larkin famously proposed that what will survive of us is love. Wrong. What will survive of us is plastic,
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Dark Prosperity – BP’s 2019 Energy Outlook: Increasing emissions, OPEC’s retreat and (yet) the remarkable rise of Renewables.
BP’s latest Energy Outlook shows us our fossil-fuel-dominated energy future – unless we intervene with technology and policy “…when oil
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The End of Dependence
With the rapid growth of new energy sources, but sustained hyper-investment in fossil fuels we are entering a world of
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How Quadratic Equations Might Save The World
With the rapid growth of new energy technologies, and China’s sudden pivot from coal, the solution to the world’s long-term
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Nine Orders of Magnitude: Wind, Solar and Lithium Will Take It From Here
“The future is already here – it’s just not adequately described” (dolllarsperbbl after William Gibson) Energy Transitions Do Not
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Energy’s Winner of 2017: The World’s Largest Energy Consumer
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all
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