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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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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From OPEC to Skolstrejk: How Technology and Memes are Changing Energy
Energy is Evolving Quickly “Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure
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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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