Culture of Energy

Oil Would Never Surpass Coal, They Once Said

By Siddharth Singh, 3rd December, 2015

John Kemp, an energy analyst at Thompson Reuters, posted a fascinating quiz that revealed how the potential of oil was dismissed in its early days by some very important players in the…

Discussion: India’s Curious Electric Vehicles Push

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.

Solar grid parity awaits

By Siddharth Singh, 22nd February, 2015

Traditional (fossil fuel) based sources of electricity have historically been far cheaper than renewable technologies such as solar and wind. That is about to change in the case of solar based sources of electricity…

Big Data and Freedom

By Siddharth Singh, 28th September, 2015

They know where we go. They know who we call. They know what we say. They know who we swipe right. They know our favourite colours. They know what we read. They know what we watch. They know what traffic violations we commit…