Drowning the World in Oil
Scroll through Donald Trump’s campaign promises or listen to his speeches and you could easily conclude that his energy policy consists of little more than a wish list drawn up by the major fossil fuel companies…
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Meet the Scrapers: Reducing Energy Use on the Cheap
In which we learn how a sensible family of limited financial means achieved their goal of reducing their energy usage and utility bills.
Not So Prolific: U.S. Shale Faces A Reality Check
U.S. shale’s possibilities may seem endless, but the low hanging fruit in terms of efficiency and costs savings has been picked and therefore current discoveries might not be so prolific.
Solar Panels have been Benefitting the Climate ‘since 2011’
In 2011, solar power reached a tipping point. This was the year when the solar industry had saved more greenhouse gases than it emitted.
State of The Transition, November 2016: Steps forward continue to outnumber steps back
The global energy transition remains in a state of net forward momentum as of the end of November.
World Energy Outlook 2016 – Fatih Birol in Brussels
On 16 November 2016 the International Energy Agency (IEA) presented its annual ”World Energy Outlook” report (WEO-2016).
Howling at the USGS’s Wolfcamp Announcement
The recent USGS announcement about the Wolfcamp play may inspire another round of company presentations to investors, and perhaps even a spurt of new drilling, but it probably won’t much change the overall picture.