The Roots of Recession
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
energy
A collection of 11 posts
How Foreign Funding Is Shaping Australia’s Energy Debate | Quillette Cetera Ep. 58
From offshore funding networks to the economic costs of unreliable renewables, this episode explores how Australia’s energy policy has been shaped by overseas interests—and what’s at stake if the country doesn’t change course.
Zoe Booth
· 22 min read
The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance
The day is coming when nuclear energy will transform our planet.
Lea Booth
· 19 min read
Hyping the Energy Transition
Consumption of fossil fuels is growing faster than ever.
Robert Bryce
· 7 min read
Germany's Energy Catastrophe
If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession.
Lea Booth
· 9 min read
California's Energy War on the Poor
California continues to implement policies on energy, housing, and transportation that are anti-poor and anti-working class.
Robert Bryce
· 11 min read
How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?
Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?
Robert Zubrin
· 12 min read
Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear
Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.
Michael Shellenberger
· 9 min read
Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.
Michael Shellenberger
· 10 min read