Most RE critics point out that the current state of electric grids is such that we risk their breakdown: a good excuse to further delay the transition, calling for “the grid first”. As an engineer, I cannot ignore the obvious challenges posed by the progressive electrification of primary energy consumption: while today the world consumes … More Are renewables good for the grid?
ITA Many have seen this chart: it represents the electrified (BEV+PHEV) market share of global vehicles sales No everybody realizes that the data series is well approximated by an exponential curve (actually, if anything, it’s a wee bit faster), and, projecting this curve for a few more periods, we get… this! In other words, extrapolating … More Panic mode: ON
I used this clip many times in my speeches (if you need context because you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it and then come back here). Greed as in self-interest, self-preservation is a fundamental force driving any complex system evolution, and there are (at least) three ways in which greed is hard at work, … More Greed works
Yesterday while riding the high-speed train to Roma with a colleague, I posted on LinkedIn this article reporting how Denmark had overshot its electrical energy consumption on wind alone – for two days in a row. On the train back in the evening I was amazed to see how many impressions that post had achieved, … More The 100% RE grid dream
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