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Venezuela continues to supply heating oil to U.S. poor
Despite Hugo Chavez’s continuing absence, Venezuelan Petro-Populism appears to be continuing under his hand-picked successor VP Nicolás Maduro. In particular, state-owned oil company PDVSA’s subsidiary...
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I’ve seen the future and it looks like Masdar
My apologies to my readers that EnergyMediaSociety has been slow this last month. I’ve been swamped, among other things, with a trip to Abu Dhabi as the guest of Masdar for the inauguration of the...
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Exposé of Shams 1 CSP plant
A beacon in the desert: The Shams 1 Solar Energy Center Yesterday Solar Server published my full article on the Shams 1 CSP plant, the world’s largest concentrating solar power (CSP) plant and the...
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The great climate shell game, or Obama’s climate policy
I frequently find myself feeling somewhat schizophrenic in the world of the American media. I will be looking at a reality which has very clear features (to me), and I will find it being nearly...
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350 Massachusetts lays out the case against natural gas
A few weeks ago 350 Massachusetts and Better Future Project published a report laying out exactly why natural gas is no solution for the climate. A Bridge Too Far was created by the 350 Mass Policy...
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March to nowhere: It’s (past) time to start pushing solutions to the Climate...
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18 The spectacle of 300,000-400,000 people marching in the streets of New York City on the issue of the threat we face from our changing...
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Transportation and the Energy Transition
I recently found myself a Twitter debate about transportation and greenhouse gas emissions, which started from the question of whether or not solar could replace oil. This is really a question about...
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No new ideas here: A critique of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
Rarely have I seen so much uncritical gushing from both Climate Change activists and the American Left as on the release of Naomi Klein’s latest work, This Changes Everything, which aims at the...
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Energy Transition: Denmark, Spain and Portugal
IEEE Spectrum has published John Bernhardt’s and my article on the Energy Transition in Denmark, Spain and Portugal, the nations I consider to be leaders for the transition to renewables in the...
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Energy Transition in the UK
This morning I was shocked to read a report by the UK’s Renewable Energy Association which finds that the UK met 19.2% of its electricity demand with renewable energy in 2014. This is the result of a...
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Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there: A response to “The...
My readers will pardon that it has taken me a full week to respond fully to David Roberts’ post in Vox, “The Awful Truth in Climate Change”. I’ve been busy as usual with other matters this last week,...
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The Jacobson Plan: 100% renewable energy in the United States
This week a team led by Stanford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark Jacobson presented the latest results of its work on the technical and economic feasibility of moving the United...
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Very high levels of renewable electricity: Geography and diversity in...
The last three posts on this blog have all dealt with the feasibility of reaching very high levels (80% or more) renewable energy in our electricity grids. Specifically, these posts were responses to...
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Things I was wrong about
The delay in my posting is sufficient enough that there isn’t even much to say about it. However, this period of time has further established certain trends which to observers more savvy than I were...
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Why I am not covering the Clean Power Plan lawsuit
If you follow mainstream climate and energy reporting, you would think that as a renewable energy reporter, I would be all over the arguments being made this week in the legal challenge to the Obama...
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Energy Transition update: 2016
My readers will forgive that a rather lengthy absence from this blog has meant that I have not updated my global renewable energy statistics yet with numbers for the full year 2015, most of which have...
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