Stuffthatcounts

This is the first of two posts, and deals with the speed of building nuclear reactors. The next post will deal with costs. Build speeds...

I don't remember the year, but it was shortly after the 2005 release of Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How societies choose to fail or...

[N.B. Longer article on Grid Capacity, promised last week, has been delayed a little ... but is still coming] I keep seeing news reports...

[ This is just a taste of a longer post to appear later this week ]. How do you climb a mountain? Do you look just 50 metres in front of...

Finally, the pounding of rationality has opened the great oak door of German energy policy by a centimetre or so. Germany may look at...

The EU sustainable development rules are in the news again. I wrote about them back in January, but there have been some developments. ...

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has drawn up a detailed Integrated System Plan (ISP) for the eastern Australian grid (the...

The IPCC Assessment Report 6, Working Group III devotes considerable attention to dietary change as a necessary part of tackling climate...

"Blackouts" seem to be the new black. SBS On Demand is running a couple of mini-series on them at the moment. There's a 2020 Belgian 10...

Once upon a time, a fat red-faced businessman called Bill Watts built a power station. It cost him a billion dollars and was soon...

The Economist recently interviewed the German Europe and climate Minister, Anna Luhrmann, about Germany's will and capacity to wean...

Claims that we can move to 100 percent renewable electricity are based on mathematical models; as is climate science. But you can test...

An analysis of what the Teal vote in Australia's General Election means for climate action.

What's the image all about? ... see the appendix at the end of the article. We desperately need a global plan to get to net-zero (or...

Page 2055 of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 report (what a mouthful!) contains a remarkable...

When did the word "logistics" start appearing on trucks? It's become quite the fashionable tag for all manner of companies; waste...

The EU is inching toward classifying nuclear power and methane as 'sustainable' for the purposes of getting onto a magic list that...

As a vegan, I was a little miffed at not being tagged by Michael McCormack’s inner city latte sipper comment; but I’m guessing he has an...

Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney...

Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was...