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Climageddon describes our climate change dilemma. It conveys a needed sense of urgency. However its comments to do with the Tesla Gigafactor

Let’s take a look at how our understanding of climate change changed in 2020, how we responded, and what 2021 may have in store for us.

This newspaper clipping from October 15, 2020 says that September 2020 was the hottest of the industrial era. I show this, not because...

Climate change is presented by scientists. Engineers are required to create working solutions.

In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. In response to this action Britain and France declared war on...

In Chapter 18, The Net Zero Professional, of our upcoming book Net Zero by 2050: Technology for Climate Change we explore which the...

If we are serious about having zero fossil fuels by the year 2050 then we will have to move away from a car-driving culture.

This post compares the lack of innovation at the Kodak company to what is going on with oil companies now. Also discussed are the strategies

In his book The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph Tainter states that growth comes from increased complexity because it is useful in...

Over the course of the last 300 years we have built an industrial infrastructure based on the energy provided by carbon-based fuels....

Many of grew up in a culture where it was taken for granted that technical progress would continue. That belief is now being challenged.

There is plenty of gold in the sea. But it is too dilute to be extracted economically. This illustrates the concept of ERoEI — Energy Return