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Obama’s climate plan relies on natural gas
President Obama’s climate action plan has and will continue to receive a lot of criticism. It is really more of an outline than a plan at this point, but one thing is absolutely clear: it relies...
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Renewables to surpass natural gas by 2016? IEA report does not make sense
The IEA has gathered a lot of attention since the release last week of its Medium Term Renewable Energy Market Report (MTRMR). The report claims that global “(p)ower generation from hydro, wind, solar...
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Gas vs. Nuclear
The US nuclear power industry is currently suffering its largest contraction ever, with 4 plants shut down already this year. Some blame this on the Shale Revolution and its concurrent glut of cheap...
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Shale Oil: The world’s ten largest national reserves
Oil and Gas IQ lists the ten nations with the largest reserves of technically recoverable shale oil (note, as always, that shale oil and oil shale – kerogen – are not the same things). At the link,...
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The Shale Revolution and the Industrialization of the Countryside
Michael Levi has been traveling the nation, promoting his new book The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity and the Battle for the Future of America. While the environmental concerns about fracking are...
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When production gallops ahead of infrastructure
Drilling intensity is one major key to success in bringing shale fields into play. However, that very same intensity can lead to tremendous amounts of waste if and when production rushes ahead of the...
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The “Japanese level of energy consumption” fallacy
Over at The Energy Collective, ecology and sustainability expert Robert Wilson has begun what is to be a series of posts on an envisioned energy transition to a post-carbon global society. While I...
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Renewable advocate estimates cost of switching to wind for electricity at ~...
Davis Swan is an advocate of conversion to what he terms a sustainable energy economy. However, he is clear eyed about the costs of such a switch. His conservative estimate is $3.6 trillion for a...
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Are renewable energy mandates bad for the economy . . . AND the environment
That is the analysis of the Belfer Center’s Robert Stavins, who argues that the combination of a carbon emissions cap and a renewable energy mandate are perversely counterproductive and will raise...
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The charging problem with electric vehicles
From the MIT Technology Review: If electric cars become popular quickly, the demand for charging them is likely to exceed supply. Now mathematicians have worked out how electricity companies can...
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