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: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:52:46 +0000
The refusal of 9 GW of green hydrogen electrolyzer proposals makes complete sense, and the hydrogen train is just the usual nonsense, but with only millions instead of billions wasted on corporate welfare.
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: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:05:19 +0000
China spent $546 billion of 2022’s $1.1 trillion USD global green investment, but China is getting about a trillion USD in value out of its investment.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:39:59 +0000
At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:30:18 +0000
Rail requires a lot more tunnels, and as the data shows, any time you are digging tunnels, fat-tailed risks abound and projects operate more slowly.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:47:47 +0000
Projects have what are called fat-tail risks and results. There’s a lot more variation at the extremes than for other things like human height.
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: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:05:55 +0000
The Christmas season and waves of sickness brought the German public transportation system, Deutsche Bahn, to the edge of collapse this year, frustrating millions of Germans. At the same time, it delivered record numbers of passengers for their holiday travels, mostly at very reasonable cost and in comfort and safety. This was a fitting end […]
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.