Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker’s latest book. Pinker was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and his books are regularly featured in the best-selling lists.
Wind
1 A lot has been said about the booming global capacities of solar and wind in the past few years. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor. So, backup […]
How energy storage made headlines in 2017
For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. But the future is now.
Wind and solar are now cheaper than fossil fuels
4 Renewables currently generate very little of Puerto Rico's electricity but hopefully this could change after Hurricane Maria.
Renewables: how Puerto Rico could turn a crisis into an ...
Climate change can be fixed by switching from cars to bikes, planting trees in our cities, tapping into energy efficiency's potential and ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Learn out more in this article.
Four cheap solutions to climate change
I came across several articles on my home country lately and thought it was the occasion to keep everyone updated on how the French energy transition is going on.
France is late on its energy transition
2 While the United States are wondering what will happen next on climate change mitigation in their country, both India and China have recently unvealed very ambitious targets to fight local air pollution and global climate change.
India and China go full speed against climate change
This week I am continuying my ten-month series based on articles I wrote for my Operations classes for my MBA at Presidio Graduate School. Hope you will like this series !
How Power Purchasing Agreements help companies cut costs
For long, China was seen as a climate villain, fuelling its amazing economic growth by burning more and more coal. But times are changing, and the People’s Republic is emerging as a climate leader.
China’s holistic approach to combatting climate change
Another world is possible. It is always a question of public willingness. The latest example of this is Costa Rica – 4.9 million inhabitants strong – which ran for almost four months on a hundred percent renewable electricity.
Costa Rican electricity was 100 percent renewables for 113 days
India is the world’s most populated country and still relatively poor. As thus, its energy choices will influence in a major way our common future.
India shows strong climate leadership
According to two recent studies, 2015 was yet another record year for renewable energy sources as no less than $285.9 billion (256 billion euros) have been invested in that sector last year.