renewable energy transition

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

, as we have seen, for some advocates of renewables, that has always been the goal. In its 2019 exposé, Der Spiegel concludes that Germany’s renewable energy transition was just done incorrectly,91 but that’s misleading. The transition to renewables was doomed because modern industrial people, no matter how romantic they are

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

by Varun Sivaram  · 2 Mar 2018  · 469pp  · 132,438 words

to a tractable bath toy, CAISO adopted the “duck curve” as the mascot of its campaign to educate the public about the difficulties of the renewable energy transition. Figure 3.4 California’s duck curve. This is an updated version of the original figure created by the California grid operator (CAISO) to predict

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

do, Ostwald believed that society’s energy consumption should be no greater than what the Earth receives each year from the sun (Chapter 12). The renewable energy transition would cost the equivalent of a scoop of ice cream on monthly electricity bills, the Greens claimed. Nine years after the scoop of ice cream

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

by Oliver Morton  · 26 Sep 2015  · 469pp  · 142,230 words

way has various charms. Its benefits are felt at the level of the system, not at the level of the individual buyer. That means a renewable-energy transition will need significant pushing. As with Grübler’s observations about the time transitions take, this points merely to decarbonization being unprecedented, not impossible. But the

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

back Hamburg’s grid: it would allow them to get off coal and nuclear and go green.5 Much has been written about Germany’s renewable energy transition—particularly the speed at which it is being achieved, as well as the ambition of its future targets (the country is aiming for 55–60

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Ecológica, explained, the “proposal establishes a precedent, arguing that countries should be rewarded for not exploiting their oil. . . . Funds gathered would be used for the [renewable] energy transition and could be seen as payments for the ecological debt from North to South, and they should be distributed democratically at the local and global

Climate Change

by Joseph Romm  · 3 Dec 2015  · 358pp  · 93,969 words

be better to deploy PV systems where there is more sunshine.” Germany has done the world a great favor by investing so heavily in its renewable energy transition, which has helped to bring down the cost of solar energy for every country. However, solar power is considerably more cost-effective in places where

The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

by Brett Christophers  · 12 Mar 2024  · 557pp  · 154,324 words

, livemint. com. 34 Ibid. 35 ‘Will India Become a Green Superpower?’ 36 D. Ghosh, G. Bryant and P. Pillai, ‘Who Wins and Who Loses from Renewable Energy Transition? Large-Scale Solar, Land, and Livelihood in Karnataka, India’, Globalizations (2022). 37 Kumar Shukla, Thangzason Sonna and Kumar Srivastava, ‘Renewable Energy – The Silent Revolution’, p

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

by J. Doyne Farmer  · 24 Apr 2024  · 406pp  · 114,438 words

faster, so that costs become lower sooner, the Fast Transition is also substantially cheaper than the Slow Transition. There are potential barriers to implementing the renewable-energy transition quickly. Perhaps the most important is expanding the capacity of the electrical grid. Electricity plays a much larger role in a world of renewable energy

Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

by Alan Weisman  · 21 Apr 2025  · 599pp  · 149,014 words

-at-three-times-the-global-rate. Seibert, M. K., and W. E. Rees. “Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition.” Energies 14 (2021): 4508. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14154508. Siegert, Martin, Mike J. Bentley, Angus Atkinson, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Peter Convey, Bethan Davies, Rod

How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road

by Gareth Dennis  · 12 Nov 2024  · 261pp  · 76,645 words

further to include platinum, silicon, thorium, titanium, vanadium, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, chromium, aluminium and a variety of rare-earth metals. The mineral requirements of the “renewable” energy transition, alongside the complexifying nature of our technology, has widened this pool of critical elements even further in the 2000s, adding rhodium, tantalum, tellurium, uranium, ruthenium