News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom
By
Bill Mckibben
President Biden should immediately invoke the Defense Production Act to get American manufacturers to start producing electric heat pumps in quantity, so we can ship them to Europe where they can be installed in time to dramatically lessen Putin’s power.
Germany Doubles Pace of Energy Transition
By
David Waterworth
“All suitable roof surfaces are to be used for solar energy.” Rooftop solar will be mandatory on new commercial buildings and near-mandatory on new residential buildings. German solar has been growing at less than the world average, but with annual deployments set to triple, the expectation is that by 2030, 50% of home heat and 80% of electricity will be green.
A German View on the Invasion of Ukraine
By
Hans-josef Fell
The geopolitical upheaval surrounding Ukraine are in part the result of the EU’s dependence on fossil fuels and the faltering transition to renewable energy.
Another Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Project Doesn’t Live Up To Its Targets
By
Zachary Shahan
But to this point, hopes of CCS being a sort of magical bullet have been little more than “magical thinking.” It simply doesn’t work as we imagine it should in our minds.
New Republican-Only Conservative Climate Caucus Light On Science, Heavily Pro-Fossil Fuels
By
Michael Barnard
New Republican Climate Caucus policies: Point fingers at others. Give money to fossil fuel industry. Pretend US is a leader, as opposed to a laggard.
Was Black Wednesday the beginning of the end for Big Oil?
By
Charles Morris
A court in The Hague ordered Royal Dutch Shell to greatly accelerate measures to reduce its climate emissions. Meanwhile, in the US, rebellions by large institutional shareholders imposed new emissions targets on Chevron and forced a boardroom reshuffle at ExxonMobil.
