Tag: climate policy
Canada’s LNG Mirage: Why Most Projects Won’t Be Built and Taxpayers Won’t See the Payoff
Canada is planning LNG export infrastructure as if global gas demand growth will persist for decades, but the energy system is moving in a different direction. Under conditions of sustained LNG oversupply, rapid global deployment of solar and batteries, and rising financing costs for fossil infrastructure, most proposed Canadian LNG … [continued]
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From Soviet Fields to US Committees: The Return of Institutionalized Untruth
On December 30, a little noticed federal vaccine advisory meeting took place in the United States. It was scheduled between Christmas and New Year’s, broken into four brief sessions for a specific reason, and focused on procedural matters within a committee most Americans have never heard of. There was no … [continued]
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Two Charts, One Grid: Clean Electricity Is Getting Cheaper But Feels More Expensive
The argument begins with a pair of charts that appear to contradict each other while describing the same reality. One plots nominal residential electricity prices against carbon intensity for the ten largest electricity producing countries in 2015 and 2024. The other uses the same data but adjusts prices for inflation. … [continued]
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From Guns & Steel to Grids & Batteries: A History-Informed View of Climate Action
The past year of thinking about climate action has increasingly felt like thinking about markets. Not markets in the narrow sense of price signals alone, but markets as arenas where learning happens, capacity is built, costs fall, and political coalitions shift. Reading and in some cases rereading Guns, Germs, and … [continued]
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New EV Energy Storage Study Sheds New Light On Ford’s EV Spinout
It seems like only yesterday that Ford Motor Company was all in on electric vehicles. Well, that was then. Today, good old-fashioned gasmobiles and hybrid gas-electric vehicles are the name of Ford’s game, along with a massively expanded interest in the energy storage industry. Like, massively expanding. For some insights … [continued]
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