Intrenex

10/02/2022

German energy prices are going up.
Can renewable energy system do something about that? In theory yes but not with every raw material for the transition going up as well.

18/06/2017

There has been a little work over the last 200 years about the capitalist system. Unfortunately it did not go away but engulfs more and more of our world. Can it be altered or does it have to leave? From what I read from Tainter, there exists a repeating pattern across all civilizations. I think it is time again to ask the hard question of civilization.

Will it ever be possible, to decide on what to grow for what reason to which size? Renewables might need stronger growth.

19/03/2017

In this short document, you find what exactly was agreed in the Paris COP21 climate change agreement:
http://leave-it-in-the-ground.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Post-Paris-Carbon-Budget-LINGO.pdf

Unfortunatley politicians that followed the proposals by the IPCC and mostly all humans that believe there was some sort of a break through have no clue at all how this decision came about and what it really means. Therefore it is quite reasonable to say that this goal is a bad decision based on incomplete asessment of the information available.
In 2014 David Wasdall explained in a lengthy session what the goals that were set in 2014 mean for the problem that was finally signed by all politicians in 2015.
I really recommend that you watch his 1 hour presentation that explains the two elephants in the room for the 2 degrees target.
The severity of the problem can not be communicated when it requires more than 15 seconds of attention that is hard to get today. I hope that you will have a better understanding of the problem, and therefore a better understanding why we must take very bold steps in a very short time frame , when you watch this video:
https://onsync.digitalsamba.com/play/wasdell/18327-beyond-the-summit

07/03/2017

Last year a new paper was published that supports a supergrid for the MENA region. It is basically the same approach as G Czisch took in 2005 but this time there is much more PV included. I yould say that in the study the wind data is too low and the price for PV also is to optimistic but the result looks promising.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303671336_The_MENA_Super_Grid_towards_100_Renewable_Energy_Power_Supply_by_2030

17/02/2017

Intrenex posted a new blog post about the crisis of science. You may read it here: http://www.intrenex.com/?p=487

Ugo Bardi has recently published a strong aticle about the reson why climate science failed as science as a whole failed. You can read it

09/02/2017

As there exists a significant possibility that international governments will promote nuclear power as a last resort to fight climate change, we present a geolgical view on this topic here:
http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.it/2017/01/peak-uranium-future-of-nuclear-energy.html

Alice Friedmann recently posted on her blog "Energy Skeptic" a summary of the discussion on nuclear energy from my book " Extracted...

04/01/2017

I want to introduce you to the latest technical term on the fornt of clean global energy generation. It is called

WWS: wind, water, and sunlight

I think we should all use this term from now on, as "renewable" makes no sense in the realm of energy. Also the energy generating units will not be renewed by the sun, the water or the wind.

Here you can read a recent study of Mark Z. Jacobson from Atmosphere/Energy Program, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering, Stanford University about what it takes to go to 100% WWS energy generation until 2050 on a global scale:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/CountriesWWS.pdf

regards
M.Muncke