Tag: electrification
How Minor Metals Could Cause Major Electrification Bottlenecks
In the discourse around global electrification, much of the attention is mistakenly drawn to the purported shortages of primary metals such as lithium and cobalt. As I’ve argued extensively elsewhere, including in critiques of the flawed models by Michaux and Cathles, these scenarios vastly overstate scarcity due to extreme and … [continued]
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Electrification Won’t Crash On Copper: Debunking Latest Claims
The April 2025 paper by Cathles and colleagues in SEG Discovery, Copper: Mining, Development, and Electrification, examining global copper supply constraints in the context of electrification and renewable energy, is rapidly becoming influential in industry and policy circles. It is important to closely scrutinize its assertions and underlying assumptions, as … [continued]
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France’s €520/Ton CO₂ Problem: Hydrogen Is Too Expensive For Transport
At €520 per ton of CO₂ avoided, France’s hydrogen expenditures audit, Final Observations: Support for the Development of Decarbonized Hydrogen (translation by computer), reveals a stark economic reality, that decarbonized hydrogen produced via electrolysis remains stubbornly uneconomic, relying heavily on layers of public subsidies. This cost of abatement significantly exceeds … [continued]
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What Happens When AI, EVs, and Smart Homes All Plug In at Once?
Sponsored post by Kumar Chandran, S&C Electric Company Energy is a part of our everyday lives in some obvious ways — turning up the A/C, charging our devices, or flipping on the lights — but much of our energy consumption happens almost entirely out of sight. The energy required to … [continued]
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Women Live In Ways That Emit Less Carbon Than Men — So What?
A May 2025 study from the London School of Economics and Political Science reveals that women in France emit 26% less carbon than men with their diet and transport usage. Why does this matter? What difference does it make? It’s clear that mitigating climate change requires us to shift our … [continued]
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