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The looming US total debt crisis A few years ago I wrote a couple of blog articles on economic growth and inequality. Back then I mentioned a paper by Ray Dalio that discussed a simple model of the economy. Ray observed that the US...

Im-practicality of 100% renewable energy This article in the MIT Technology review discusses this paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. The topic is the viability (or lack thereof) of 100% renewable electricity...

PV not predicted to grow much in 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has ten predictions for 2018. One prediction is that PV installs in 2018 will be about the same as 2017’s 98GW. PV panel prices are predicted to decline slightly...

Clean energy’s only purpose is to reduce CO2 emissions. It is not an end but a means to an end. This big picture tends to be lost in the noise of adversarial energy debate. In this blog post on 10/2/2017 I discussed the EIA’s latest 2017 world energy projection out to 2050. The EIA is America’s congressional energy information body, equivalent to the Congressional...

Follow the money About this time last year I wrote a post based on Bloomberg's (bnef) reporting on global clean energy financing. The theme was the lack of growth in clean energy investment. This time last year the...

EIA projections revisited six years on. We are still not on a path to eliminating fossil fuels Five years ago, I produced this chart based on 2011 EIA world energy use projections out to 2050. It showed the scale of fossil fuel energy to other energy and the projected growth of fossil fuels...

California is an emerging practical example of the limits to renewables pe*******on of electricity generation. In a previous post on the limits to renewables pe*******on, I mentioned California as an example that is starting to face this issue already. This article discusses California’s short term problem and this NREL study discusses what California must do to achieve its 2030 goal of 50% renewables penetr

The negative impact of higher energy cost on GDP growth. An argument against large scale deployment of alternative energy is the negative impact of the higher cost on gdp growth. The following is an attempt to quantify this effect based on the increasing...

More Focus on Energy Research and Development The UN climate change conference in Paris starting today (Monday 11/30/2015) has focused attention on the CO2 emissions issue The politics is focused on what can be achieved politically, which is non...

StratoSolar Solveforx hangout on air, Jan 14th 10:00am On Tuesday Jan 14th, between 10:00 and 10:30am PST, Solve for X is hosting a google+ hangout on air for StratoSolar.  It's a hosted event where I’m asked a series of questions by a moderator...

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