Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:30:01 +0000
The Association of American Railroads is lobbying hard to radically reduce rail as a freight delivery option in the US. It’s the exact opposite of a rational business strategy.
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:34:13 +0000
CleanTechnica recently published an article that I had compiled about the progress of BEVs in India. Although the adoption curve looked impressive, the absolute numbers were still miniscule. One of our readers pointed out that the real story was electric two-wheelers in India. Autocar India tells us that electric two-wheeler sales were up 305% on […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:59:22 +0000
The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don’t need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:45:23 +0000
Hydrogen and fossil fuels dwarf renewables in BC’s pension fund. Its claim to be “The Investment Manager of Choice for British Columbia’s Public Sector” doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:47:55 +0000
Crash and burn. That is the conclusion of the researchers at UK’s Rethink Energy. This article draws its main points from their recent report, “Russia’s war wakes sleeping renewables giants of post 2030 power,” with comments from me interspersed in between. Rethink Energy is known for its aggressive predictions of the decline of the oil […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:15:49 +0000
2022 was the most profitable year for fossil fuel companies in history, thanks in large part to the disruption of supplies from Russia.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:52:28 +0000
Biofuels are fit for purpose, and we have a lot more resources for them than the requirements. Arguments against them are mostly specious, biased, or based on very stale data.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:10:48 +0000
There’s a lot to like in the new US transportation decarbonization blueprint. It’s actually very good in most ways, which is excellent to see given that the US hydrogen strategy from late last year was so poor. And it’s needed.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:59:22 +0000
As Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.” But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won’t be heavy, sour, far from water crude.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:30:39 +0000
ChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.