Local power outages in the UK have been known to last days and – in heavy snow – even weeks. But few households maintain more than a few days’ food.
Read More »A brief interlude
We are currently living through what looks a lot like the calm before a very big series of storms
Read More »Energy myths
In the real world, any recovery of new oil and gas is a decades-long, multi-billion-pound endeavour
Read More »The map is not the territory
The only viable responses are rationing and conservation. And this has to be done before fuel shortages begin… i.e., sometime last month
Read More »What the right gets wrong
The Trump administration is clueless when it comes to calculating the energy cost of energy
Read More »The end of circularity
There was always hubris in the European technocracy’s experiment with eschewing fossil fuels (and in Germany’s case, nuclear too).
Read More »A return to coal
Only access to some new source of cheap energy can save the western states.
Read More »Real illness, quack cure
The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.
Read More »Peak oil returns
While “oil” production has bounced back from the lockdown slump, diesel production is still lagging below the 2018 peak
Read More »The problem squared
Given the extent to which we have electrified our way of life, this should terrify everyone...
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