by Graham Palmer | Nov 11, 2017 | Electricity, EROI, Uncategorized
The allegory of Flinder’s Island In 2008 US dollars, the Apollo program cost $98 billion, encompassed 17 missions and included six lunar landings. Nobody believes that successfully landing a man on the moon proved that colonising the moon was in any way...
by Graham Palmer | Aug 13, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
Price gouging in Victoria’s electricity retail market The release of the Victorian Independent Review into the Electricity and Gas Markets is damning of retail margins in the electricity market. Most of the focus of the report is on price gouging but I think the...
by Graham Palmer | Jul 29, 2017 | Energy, EROI, Uncategorized
Pathways to the Post-Carbon Economy In June 2017, Nafeez Ahmed published an article 3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies which illicited debate in the sustainability community. In response, Nafeez suggested a symposium...
by Graham Palmer | Jul 8, 2017 | EROI, Uncategorized
Japan as a template for how societies might reconfigure with economic stagnation and declining net-energy Japan has enormous debt, falling population, and faces a demographic ‘time bomb’. But my current visit to Japan reveals a vibrant, friendly, and civilised...
by Graham Palmer | Jun 29, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
The NRDC baseload twitter storm The release of a Brattle report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) resulted in a Twitter storm and much commentary over the meaning of ‘baseload’. Mark Diesendorf had pushed back against the term more than 10 years ago. But...
by Graham Palmer | Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
The rigour of the Jacobson et al. RE plan UPDATE: 26 August 2017 – A response to Jacobson et al.’s response has been published with further detail here. Completely decarbonising energy systems is a difficult and complex problem. Wind and solar have the...
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