Energy

Blockchain Energy

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…

Will the U.S. pull out of the Paris Agreement?

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…

Energy and Climate Change at NATO

On a recent visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, I had the opportunity to discuss their take…

What if Solar and Wind did not Disrupt the Grid

Here’s the basic problem with wind and solar energy: it is sometimes not windy, and the sun doesn’t shine at night*. Solar energy supply, for instance, peaks in the middle of the day, while household energy demand peaks in the mornings and…

Wanted: Pedestrian Maps

This may come as a surprise to you, but before we had bullock carts, cycles, motorcycles, cars and buses, people used…