electricity
“We protected the world from nuclear power” rings differently than “we protected the world from nuclear power, and in retrospect it cost the health of a hundred communities poorer than ours”.
energy
The particulars of our places punish the general tool, whether a Swiss Army Knife or the Hydrogen Ladder. We use tools fit-for-purpose, instead. So a Hydrogen Star is proposed.
energy
This critique of the Hydrogen Ladder goes to the top of the Hierarchy of Disagreement to refute the central point of arguments against hydrogen in personal transport and households.
electricity
Can we map insights from biology (a very complex system) to our energy systems (which are also very complex)?
energy
It is a cliché that digital cameras killed Kodak, but it deserves to be a cliché that Fujifilm survived. This example and many others suggest that while efficiency helps us in the short term, resilience carries us to the long term. We should consider this as we think about energy.