by Graham Palmer | May 4, 2017 | Electricity
A few thoughts on the electricity ‘death spiral’ One of Germany’s exports has been the idea of ‘energy democratisation’ – the Energiewende is not just a transition to renewable energy but a switch to energy democracy. But was does energy democracy...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 25, 2017 | Silicon Valley
Energy technologies and the Silicon Valley mindset Horace Dediu identified the twin personalities of Google – Google A solves problems of humanity and Google B solves problems for advertisers. Google A is known for their moonshot programs and optimism, Google B...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 21, 2017 | Oil
Leif Wenar- Blood Oil From 1807, Britain tried to suppress the Atlantic slave trade until eventual success its 1867. In the late eighteenth century nearly everyone of influence or power in Britain had a direct or indirect interest in the slave trade. In 1805–1806 the...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 13, 2017 | EROI
The EROI energy multiplier hypothesis A common narrative in EROI discourse is the energy multiplier hypothesis. The reasoning is that it doesn’t matter what the EROI is, providing it’s greater than unity. From this reasoning, it follows that even very low EROI’s (say...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 12, 2017 | EROI
Cost-constrained versus EROI-constrained electricity generation One of the challenges for EROI researchers is explaining in simple terms why EROI matters. I’m planning on doing a series of short posts exploring the relevance of EROI. This first post simply makes the...
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