-
Recent Posts
Archives
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
Categories
- administration
- Anthropocene
- Anthropogenic
- assessment
- Biden
- Climate Change
- Conference
- COP
- COP21
- coronavirus
- covid
- Economics
- Education
- Election
- Electric Cars
- Electricity
- Energy
- Extreme Weather
- Guest Blog
- Holocaust
- immigration
- IPCC
- law
- politics
- Population
- refugee
- Russia/Ukraine
- Sustainability
- Trump
- UN
- UNFCCC
- US
- Water
About Micha
CCF around the Web
My Favorite Climate Change Sites
Publications
Social Media
Meta
Tag Archives: Solar Energy
Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany – Storage
As I have mentioned before, electric utilities must necessarily store electricity in order to keep up with the fluctuations in consumer demands (July 29 – August 12 blogs). For example, all around the world (where people are connected to electrical … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Agora Energiewende, Clean Energy, client, Climate Change, Coal, Cost, David MacKay, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, EROI, feed-in tariff, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Germany, intermittency, Investment, John Morgan, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Photovoltaic, photovoltaics, Pollution, Power, Renewable, Renewable Energy Act, Solar Energy, Supply, tariff degression, Technology, Utility
1 Comment
Stuttering Energy Transitions: Germany – Producers
As I discussed in the in the last blog, the feed-in tariff that was introduced as a key element in the German energy transition has resulted in the Germans paying among the highest electricity rates in the world. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, China, Clean Energy, client, Climate Change, Coal, Cost, Crystalline Modules, duty, E.ON, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, EROI, EU, feed-in tariff, Fossil Fuels, Gas, Germany, Investment, Malaysia, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Photovoltaic, photovoltaics, Pollution, Power, Price, producers, quota, Renewable, Renewable Energy Act, Solar, Solar Cells, Solar Energy, Solyndra, Supply, Tariff, tariff degression, Technology, US, Utility, Wind, WTO
1 Comment
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
Posted in Climate Change
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
Leave a comment
Yes We Can 3: The Alcohol Debate
This will be the last in the series of blogs on EROI that started with John Morgan’s guest blog (November 4). The set of data in all three blogs was based on a paper by Weißbach et al. that suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, alcohol, Biofuel, Carbon, Clean Energy, Climate Change, corn, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy generation, energy return on investment, Energy Sources, Energy Storage, Environment, EPA, EROI, ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, greenhouse gas, Hubbert Peak, Hydropower, John Morgan, Joseph, Methane, Mitigation, Population, Power, Power Plants, RFS, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Thanksgiving, USDA, Water, Weißbach, Wind, World Population
4 Comments
Yes We Can 2: The Weißbach Paper
A few weeks ago, John Morgan wrote a guest blog here (November 4, 2014) called “The Catch-22 of Energy Storage and EROI.” My conversation with him started by way of a Twitter discussion of David MacKay’s paper on the long … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Storage, Environment, EROI, Fossil Fuels, Fukushima, Germany, Hydroelectric, Iceland, John Morgan, LCA, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, photovoltaics, Physics, Power, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, United States, US, virtual water, Weißbach, Wind
1 Comment
Guest Blog: John Morgan: The Catch-22 of Energy Storage and EROI
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.
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
Sustainable China?
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