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Tag Archives: Renewable
Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany – Consumers
The German Renewable Energy Act (German: Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG) was designed to encourage cost reductions based on improved energy efficiency from economies of scale over time. The Act came into force in the year 2000 and was the initial spark behind … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, client, Climate Change, Coal, Cost, E.ON, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, feed-in tariff, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Germany, Investment, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Pollution, Power, Renewable, Renewable Energy Act, Solar Energy, Supply, tariff degression, Technology, Utility
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Yes We Can! :(
Yesterday (November 4th) was Election Day in the US. It ended in a big victory for the Republicans, with a matching defeat for the Democrats and President Obama. It will be much more difficult for the President to push an … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, CCS, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, democracy, Democrats, Desalination, DNNer, Economics, Efficiency, Election, electrical power, Electricity, Energy, EROI, ethanol, Fatalists, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IPCC, John Morgan, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Obama, Physics, Power Plants, Renewable, Republicans, Science, senate, Sequestration, Sustainability, Technology, Thermodynamics, threshold
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Back to the Sustainable Energy Transition: The Physics of Sustainability and Some Tweets About it.
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
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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
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Energy Transition in the US??? – The World is Watching and So Are We
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
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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
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