The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System
Over $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP and 40% of what we spend on energy, is wasted due to fossil inefficiency.
Over $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP and 40% of what we spend on energy, is wasted due to fossil inefficiency.
Renewable energy – solar and wind – is on an exponential path which will lead to disruption of the global electricity sector this decade.
The Ukraine crisis shows that we must now act with speed, agility, coordination, and an integrated vision to create a prosperous climate-safe and energy-secure world.
Claims that it’s immensely destructive if not impossible to find enough minerals to make all the batteries that a global fleet of EVs will need are often exaggerated. They can become manageable if we include…
How renewable energy and new methods of energy management and storage can lead to a clean, reliable electricity grid.
Accessible alternatives to “critical materials” can make excellent EV batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines.
In this decade, a rich stew of new technologies, materials, design methods, financial techniques, and business models, along with smart policies and aggressive investments, could revitalize, relocate, or displace some of the world’s most powerful…
Transforming the “harder-to-abate” sectors of heavy transport and industrial heat Is not uniquely hard and can be lucrative.
A transcript of Amory's address for Pivot2020, a geothermal energy event hosted by the Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization at the University of Texas at Austin and the International Geothermal Association.
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