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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59,400 TWh – The New Language of World Energy
59,400TWh Big picture from BP’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Primary energy grew by 2.2% in 2017 to 59,400
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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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The Oxides of Oil: The Future Price of Oil Will be Determined as Much by Chemistry as Geopolitics
Crude oil demand is walking a tightrope. Any faulty price signal not based on demand fundamentals will stress already fragile
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Tesla’s Children: Tesla EVs are a sustaining technology for the automotive industry – and that changes everything
Tesla’s EVs, radical and risky as they are, are a sustaining automotive technology: this means that traditional industry leaders will
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Analysis or Advocacy? The IEA’s Global Energy Report Numbers Don’t Add Up
This month’s International Energy Agency (IEA) Global Energy and CO2 Status report showcased a preliminary assessment of global energy demand
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Top Down: The Five Forces That Will Define the Oil Market – to 2023
Near-term oil market analyses emphasise decline rates and pessimistic outlooks leading to looming supply gaps. However, a top-down view shows the
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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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Chronicle of A Peak Foretold
“There had never been a death so foretold” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1981 Peak Oil has
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