Here is a handy chart of the various forms of energy and the processes by which they can be converted from one form to the other.
Do you know where your energy comes from? With the help of a colleague, I created an Energy Map of India, which purports to have the geographic data of all major energy infrastructure in the country.
History has a particular way of treating naysayers. They were the experts of that era that did “not see it coming”; they were the intellectuals who were humbled by the doers. A bit of schadenfreude, after all, makes for interesting reading.
Here is what it costs to produce electricity from these various sources as of December 2016 in the U.S. The following graph provides the range of costs across various projects for any one individual source. Keep an eye out for…
There are two ways you can get the electricity you need for your homes: purchase it from your local energy utility — or generate some of your own.
The latter is being made increasingly possible with the expansion of household rooftop solar owing to falling solar panel…
The Paris Agreement has 194 global signatories and aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial…
On a recent visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, I had the opportunity to discuss their take…
When organic material burns incompletely, it generates soot (which is not the same as carbon black). And soot is a problem. Scientists have linked the production of soot with at least two critical issues:
There’s a concept in energy policy making called the ‘Energy Trilemma’. It discuses the dilemma of having to choose between the three dimensions of security (secure physical supplies), equity (accessibility and affordability of energy), and environmental…
You are probably already aware that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that can trap heat in the atmosphere — leading to climate change. As seen in the graph below from NASA, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has shot up exponentially in the…
