A collection of 12 posts
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
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.
How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
The day is coming when nuclear energy will transform our planet.
Consumption of fossil fuels is growing faster than ever.
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.
California continues to implement policies on energy, housing, and transportation that are anti-poor and anti-working class.
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
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.
Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.