Tag: Vaclav Smil
Energy transitions: A simple model to help us think about fossil fuels vs. renewables
Thinking – and debating – global energy transitions in terms of time, cost, and complexity What the world desperately needs now is not love, as the old pop song has it, but a simple framework within which to understand the ferocious political struggle between fossil fuels and renewable energy technologies. So much of the public debate in […]
Renewable energy revolution? More like a crawl
Energy transitions are slow and create own technical, economic and social challenges America in 2015 finds itself almost in a new energy reality. It recently became the world’s second–largest extractor of crude oil, and since 2010 has been the leading producer of natural gas, whose abundant and inexpensive supply has been accelerating the retreat from coal as a national source of electric power. Some see this as […]
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