Identifying Energy Options for Achieving 100% Renewable Energy
Options, any options, by allowing you more upside than downside, are vectors of antifragility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The preceding article in this series — What a Decision-making Process for Achieving 100% Renewable Energy Might Look Like — showed that a first step in a decision-making process for adopting a renewable energy option might look like decision-makers identifying energy options available for adoption.
Identifying energy options available to decision-makers might look like this:
Energy options might be divided into 2 categories — energy options for stationary (electric power and heating & cooling) uses, and energy options for mobile (transportation) uses — as shown in Figure 1:
Energy options for stationary uses might be divided into 2 categories — energy options for electric power uses, and energy options for heating & cooling uses — as shown in Figure 2:
Energy options for electric power uses might be divided into 2 categories — renewable energy options for electric power uses, and non-renewable generation options for electric power uses — as shown in Figure 3:
Renewable energy options for electric power uses might be further divided into 2 categories — distributed energy resource (DER) options, and non-DER options — as shown in Figure 4:
Energy options for heating & cooling uses might be divided into 2 categories — supply-side options for heating & cooling uses, and demand-side options for heating & cooling uses — as shown in Figure 5:
Energy options for mobile uses might be divided into 2 categories — supply-side options for mobile uses and demand-side options for mobile uses — as shown in Figure 6:
Demand-side options for mobile uses might be divided into 2 categories — transport options and infrastructure options — as shown in Figure 7:
If a second step in a decision-making process for adopting a renewable energy option looks like decision-makers evaluating benefits of energy options available for adoption (as laid out in Chapter 14 of You Can Reverse Global Warming), what might evaluating benefits of those energy options look like?
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In the next article in this Reversing Global Warming series, I’ll show you what evaluating benefits of energy options might look like.
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