“The fact that renewable energy is failing to decarbonize the electricity sector may surprise many readers accustomed to breathless reports of the rapid growth of renewable energy around the world. What Christophers means by this, though, is that while renewable energy is growing rapidly in many places, these increases are not...
What is the plan for an electric grid outage that lasts for months? (energyskeptic.com)
Collapse Will Look Nothing Like in the Movies (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)
Monthly observations thread Dec 2023
There has never been an energy transition (hipcrime.substack.com)
Wild mammals make up only a few percent of the world’s mammals (2022) (ourworldindata.org)
Unsustainable Goose Chases (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Farmers warn food aisles will soon be empty because of crushing conditions: 'We are not in a good position' (www.yahoo.com)
Daily sea surface temperature, world (climatereanalyzer.org)
Edible mycelium bioengineered for enhanced nutritional value and sensory appeal using a modular synthetic biology toolkit (www.nature.com)
Death Cults, Doomers and an End of a Civilization (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
The Oil and Energy Macro | Art Berman (www.artberman.com)
It doesn’t really work like that (consciousnessofsheep.co.uk)
Can Wind and Solar Solve Climate Change? (foreignpolicy.com)
“The fact that renewable energy is failing to decarbonize the electricity sector may surprise many readers accustomed to breathless reports of the rapid growth of renewable energy around the world. What Christophers means by this, though, is that while renewable energy is growing rapidly in many places, these increases are not...
Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering (www.euractiv.com)
Today's energy bottleneck may bring down major governments (ourfiniteworld.com)
Monthly observations thread Feb 2024
The Arrow of Time (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Monthly observations thread March 2024
Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era (www.washingtonpost.com)
Monthly observations thread Jan 2024
#277: At the limits of monetary possibility (surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)
I Saw the Future of Europe… In India (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Monthly observations thread May 2024