The Fossil Fuel Transition – A Very Short History
Fossil fuel energy is being replaced by its antithesis: it needs to be. Oil and Gas as genre For millennia,
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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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Decarbonising Capitalism: In 2019 Post-Carbon Energy Gets Underway
“In the long run, decarbonisation could be a way of reinvigorating capitalism. Mass electrification, from zero-carbon sources, could stimulate new
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Chicxulub: The Early Losers in the Energy Transition
Short the Horses Redux In any major industry transition it’s supposed to be easier to spot the losers than the
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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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The Transition
“Nature doesn’t ask your permission; She has nothing to do with your wishes, or whether you like her laws or
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Universal Energy
Two great industrial energy systems are now in place: the thermal, based on extracted fuels, and the universal, based on
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157,000 TWh – The New Language of World Energy
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
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$80/bbl Might be Fatal for Gasoline
Oil’s forced surge in price as US and Chinese gasoline demand enter decline may be a fatal producer mis-step The
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