Articles by
Craig Morris
German renewables sector calls for carbon tax
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Craig Morris
German renewables association BEE has therefore proposed a carbon tax, but critics of the plan say it would only weaken the ETS further.
The Dutch step away from their gas
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Craig Morris
The Economist coined the term Dutch disease for the perceived inability of the Netherlands to innovate itself out of economic downturns (not to be confused with the recent Dutch Coal Mistake: building numerous coal plants that were immediately unprofitable).
Marginalizing the “strict-father” camp
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Craig Morris
The pitfall of Lakoff’s suggestions, which his colleague Elisabeth Wehling fell into, is that everyone might drop to the Republican level by playing their framing game. If we are not careful, everyone will call a thing by a different name.
Selling the energy transition based on values
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Craig Morris
There is one more aspect about Lakoff’s focus on framing: it is a response to a uniquely American school of conservatism, making it of limited applicability in Germany and possibly elsewhere.
Why auctions? Germany to cut renewables growth in half
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Craig Morris
The main effect of auctions is to prevent growth from surpassing the volume on offer.
Clean energy or renewable energy? The label matters!
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Craig Morris
So 12 years ago, Lakoff himself would have told his younger colleague Wehling that trading in “renewables” for “clean energy” is Orwellian.
The end of the Energiewende is back
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Craig Morris
Yet again, an expert – this time, a German – says Germany’s energy transition cannot succeed. He has a surprising insight for Energiewende proponents: the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. How could we have missed that?
France can’t meet its own power demand
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Craig Morris
France was heavily dependent on power imports during the first cold spell of this winter. Yet, most of the country’s reactors are back online.
French solar roads – silly walks
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Craig Morris
France’s environmental minister Ségolène Royale is rolling out 1,000 kilometers of a technology that will both be bad solar and bad road.
Swiss reject nuclear phaseout schedule in referendum
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Craig Morris
At the end of November, Switzerland clearly rejected a proposal by the Greens for a fast closure of the country’s five reactors, leaving the Swiss with a phaseout plan without a roadmap
Canada’s first 100% renewable energy community project
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Craig Morris
Oxford County, Ontario, has just opened a wind farm as part of a project to go 100% renewables for electricity and heat
The long history of “recently discovered” nuclear safety issues
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Craig Morris
At present, around the third of France’s nuclear fleet is currently off-line as safety experts inspect small cracks in containment vessels. Earlier this year, we learned that improper manufacturing led to these micro-fissures way back in the 1960s—and insiders knew about the problem all along.
