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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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
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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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The Decline Rate Delusion
A short post here ahead of some more detailed ones to come in July and August. I have recently started
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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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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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Exxon’s Dangerous Energy Vision
“Forecasts are not always wrong; more often than not, they can be reasonably accurate. And that is what makes them
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How to Underestimate EV Demand
As the auto industry enters version 2.0, forecasting future sales of EVs is a crucial piece of work. But most projections, especially from the oil industry, use
Continue readingBloomberg Gadfly – Big Projects, Big Problems
We’ve covered big oil’s structural problems with big projects in a number of posts this year – see Megafragility for example.
Continue readingWhat’s Warming the World, really? The NASA / Bloomberg view.
This won’t close any debate – but lets try to keep to some facts. I note in various comments threads
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