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Guest Blog: John Morgan: The Catch-22 of Energy Storage and EROI

Posted on November 4, 2014 by climatechangefork

As I mentioned in my blog on October 21st, I have invited John Morgan to post a guest blog about EROI. This week, he has generously agreed to re-post the article that I mentioned, with an added postscript addressing questions … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Australia, Battery, Brave New Climate, buffered, Carbon, Chemistry in Australia, civil engineering, Clean Energy, Economics, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, energetic needs, Energy, energy return on investment, Energy Saving, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, EROEI, EROI, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Guest Blog, Hydropower, Investment, John Morgan, Mitigation, Oil, Peter Lang, Power, Power Plants, RMIT, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Technology, Thermodynamics, unbuffered, US | 5 Comments

Back to the Sustainable Energy Transition: The Physics of Sustainability and Some Tweets About it.

Posted on October 21, 2014 by climatechangefork

In the last blog I strongly advocated simplifying the conversation about climate change, focusing on how we can get from the present “business as usual” scenario to an “environmentally friendly” scenario that will not result in an environment inhospitable to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, business as usual, Capacity, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cost, David MacKay, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, energy return on investment, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, enery density, Environment, EROI, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IPCC, John Morgan, Mitigation, MRS, Oil, Physics, Power, Power Plants, Renewable, scenario, Science, Solar Energy, Storage, Storage Capacity, Sustainability, Technology, Twitter | 2 Comments

Storage – the Technologies

Posted on July 29, 2014 by climatechangefork

A quick note: this week’s post is a bit of a science challenge and requires some further investigation by the reader. Please click through to the links and email me if you have any questions. The Energy Storage Association (ESA) … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Batteries, Car Battary, Chlorination, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Electricity, Electrolysis, Energy, Energy Storage, Environment, ESA, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric, Lead-Acid; Faraday, Pool, Power Plants, Salt Water Chlorination, Science, Solid State, Swimming, USGS, Water | Leave a comment

Sustainable China?

Posted on July 22, 2014 by climatechangefork

In the last blog I started to discuss the role that energy storage plays in the transition to more sustainable energy sources. While I had originally planned to focus this blog on the various energy storage technologies, I will instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Biofuel, Bloomberg, Cars, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, EDGAR, Electric Cars, Electric Vehicles, Electricity, Elisa Wood, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Hydroelectric, Power Plants, Renewable Energy World, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, United States, Wind | Leave a comment

The Missing Link – Energy Storage

Posted on July 15, 2014 by climatechangefork

In my last blog (July 8, 2014), I tried to summarize my goals for this blog, and take account of my progress to date. I ended with a short paragraph that described my efforts to educate my readers on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Carrying Capacity, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Consumers, Delivery, Demand, Desalination, Distribution, Economics, EIA, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Sources, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Geothermal, Hydroelectric, Joseph, Management, Nuclear, Oceans, Photovoltaic, Power Plants, Reservoir, Resources, Science, Solar, Storage, Sustainability, Technology, Thermal, Thomas Piketty, Usage, Variability, Wind | Leave a comment

I’m Back – Some Notes on Iceland and Sustainable Energy

Posted on July 1, 2014 by climatechangefork

Well, it’s now July 1st, and I am back home from my combined vacation, family meeting and conference in Iceland. My jet-lag is still in full swing but not enough to freeze me out of the blog schedule. The conference … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Aluminum, Australia, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cod Wars, Conference, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy generation, Energy Saving, Environment, Erosion, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Geothermal, Glacier, Global Warming, heat, Hydroelectric, Hydropower, Iceland, Mitigation, Oil, Physics, Population, Power Plants, Reykjavík, Science, Sustainability, Technology, Topsoil, Volcano, Water, Water Cycle | Leave a comment

Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We

Posted on June 17, 2014 by climatechangefork

Unless my editors (LCG Communications) decide differently, this blog will be posted about two weeks after the EPA and President Obama announced the new proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. My folder library is already full … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Balance, Carbon, Chamber of Commerce, China, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Economics, Electrical Grid, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Environment, EPA, EU, Fossil Fuels, greenhouse gas, India, Natural Gas, Obama, Obamacare, Power, Power Plants, Recession, Reference Year, Regulations, Renewable, Russia, US | Leave a comment

Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Arctic, Arid, Australia, Austria, Awareness, Bangladesh, Biology, Botswana, Brazil, California, Canada, Carbon, carbon dioxide, China, Class, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Colombia, Conference, Crisis, Denmark, Development, Disolved Organic Nitrogen, Ecohydrologic, Ecotourism, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Saving, Environment, Finland, Fish, Food, Fossil Fuels, France, Gender, Germany, Ghana, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Grizzly Bear, Health, heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Heat Syncope, Hurricane, Iceland, Impacts and Responses, India, International, IPCC, Japan, Lake, Mauritius, Media, Meteorology, Mitigation, Modernization, Net-Zero, Netherlands, News, Nitrogen, Nutrition, Ocean, Permafrost, Pesticide, Physics, Plants, Polar Bears, Policy, Power Plants, Precipitation, Race, Reykjavík, Science, Sea, Sequestration, Social Science, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Thermal, Tibet, Tornado, TRMM, Typhoon, UK, Urban Development, Video Games, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Watershed, Workshop, World, World Population | 1 Comment

Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids

Posted on May 6, 2014 by climatechangefork

This week, with her kind permission, I am reposting two articles by Elisa Wood. She is an editor at EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com and has been writing about energy for more than two decades for top industry publications. Her work has been picked … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Democratization, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Microgrids, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Superstorm Sandy, Sustainability, Technology, Tornado, Utility, Water | Leave a comment

Microgrids – History is Catching Up.

Posted on April 29, 2014 by climatechangefork

Two weeks ago (April 15, 2014), I discussed some of the changes necessary in the electrical grid to accommodate sustainable power sources. To a major extent, the blog was based on an MIT report titled “The Future of the Electrical … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, California, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Current, DNNer, Documentary, Electrical Grid, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, Environment, heat, India, Infrastructure, Macrogrid, Mangrove, Microgrid, Microturbine, MIT, Mitigation, Power, Power Plants, Sundarbans, Sustainability, Technology, Thomas Edison, US, Voltage, Water | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: Power Plants

Guest Blog: John Morgan: The Catch-22 of Energy Storage and EROI

Back to the Sustainable Energy Transition: The Physics of Sustainability and Some Tweets About it.

Storage – the Technologies

Sustainable China?

The Missing Link – Energy Storage

I’m Back – Some Notes on Iceland and Sustainable Energy

Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We

Elisa Wood Guest Post: Microgrids

Microgrids – History is Catching Up.

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