Jorrit Smit is a Science & Technology Studies researcher at Leiden University. He investigates the politics of promises and expectations around emerging climate mitigation technologies, like green hydrogen. Together with artist Naïmé Perrette he is also working on a film about the search for an unexpected energy fix: natural hydrogen.
Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: ‘Forget the energy transition: there never was one and there never will be one’
In France, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has been provoking the energy and climate debate for some time. He denounces the obsession with technological solutions to climate change and advocates a reduction in the use of materials and energy.
December 5, 2024