by Judith Curry
Looking ahead towards new energy technologies, plus my own saga and rationale for transitioning my personal power generation and consumption. Continue reading
by Judith Curry
Looking ahead towards new energy technologies, plus my own saga and rationale for transitioning my personal power generation and consumption. Continue reading
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
How the ‘blame game’ gets in the way of solving complex societal problems.
by Andy West
“For me the question now is, now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we going to keep letting them destroy it?”. – Michael Schellenberger Continue reading
Posted in Energy
by Planning Engineer
Five years ago today I started guest blogging on Climate Etc., focusing on energy related issues.
Posted in Communication, Energy
Posted in Energy
by Kevin Murphy
A response to: “Is RCP8.5 an impossible scenario?”. This post demonstrates that RCP8.5 is so highly improbable that it should be dismissed from consideration, and thereby draws into question the validity of RCP8.5-based assertions such as those made in the Fourth National Climate Assessment from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
In considering ‘worst case’ climate change impacts, we first need to assess the realistic worst case for global carbon emissions.
Posted in Energy
by Peter Lang
Could the costs of nuclear power have been 10% of what they are if not for the disruption?
Posted in Energy
Although technological progress can alter the relative costs of different energy sources, depletion inevitably must raise the costs of fossil fuels leading to their displacement by alternative energy sources. What energy technology will likely be used when fossil fuels are no longer dominant? More importantly, what will be the cost of that alternative “backstop” energy supply?
Posted in Energy
Posted in Energy, Sociology of science
By Planning Engineer
Considerable efforts are being undertaken to restore power in Puerto Rico. Most coverage has been pessimistic focusing on challenging logistics and contentious issues with very little upbeat coverage on progress so far. There is one major exception to this trend, the efforts of Elon Musk and Tesla have enjoyed glowing coverage.
Posted in Energy
by Peter Davies
While onshore wind generation has been relatively inexpensive for some time, solar PV and lithium ion battery storage costs have recently shown dramatic reductions. So can Texas, with excellent onshore wind and solar resources, be powered economically entirely by renewables in the 2030-40 time frame? This article brings together the available public material to estimate the cost.
Posted in Energy
by Peter Davies
Scenarios to understand how load, wind, solar PV and storage interact and whether a 100% renewable grid for Texas is technically feasible.
Posted in Energy
By Planning Engineer
On April 14th, 2017 Rick Perry wrote a memo headed “STUDY EXAMINING ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND RELAIBILITY” calling for study to investigate how long term energy trends my impact the grid.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
Some reflections on my transition from academic climate research to private sector weather forecasting and regional climate change assessments.
Posted in Energy, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Michael Liebrich has written an extremely insightful (not to mention clever) article entitled It’s a new year and time to face reality.
Posted in Energy
by David Gattie
The need for pragmatism, stability and resilience in energy policy for the U.S. power sector.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
So . . . what can we expect from the Trump administration on environment/climate/energy?
by Rud Istvan
This post addresses issues related to ‘vehicular decarbonization’. It is an energy storage insider’s narrative of how tough a slog developing some of the requisite applied science technologies has been over the past decades. It is a saga of research twists and turns, abject failures, near misses, and ‘before its time’ inventions.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
Right about now would be a good time for people who care about climate change to acknowledge our clean energy crisis. – Mike Shellenberger
Posted in Energy
by Planning Engineer
· Countering the presumption that renewables are always the environmentally preferable alternative, this column suggests that serious consideration should be given to examining if for the short term, fossil fuel might be the “environmentally correct” near term alternative for Kauai.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
Humanity is owed a serious investigation of how we have gone so far with the decarbonization project without a serious challenge in terms of engineering reality. – Michael Kelly