HyHaul was supposed to be a proof point. It was framed as the UK’s first serious hydrogen freight corridor, backed by public money, supported by major industrial partners, and aligned with national decarbonization narratives. It had all the visible ingredients of credibility: government grants, memoranda of understanding, press releases, and … [continued]
A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued]
China’s rapid adoption of agricultural drones is one of the most interesting examples of technological divergence between two major food producers. The contrast is striking. Chinese pilots are now treating an amount of land with drones each year that is larger than the total farmland base, which means multiple drone … [continued]
Was the plant-based meat substitute industry wrong to recommend its products as a climate solution? That’s what Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness insists, saying that the approach severely restricted the company’s potential customer base early on. The approach may have contributed to an inevitable pattern of steadily falling US faux … [continued]
It was just several days ago that I wrote an article about Tesla launching a huge EV charging hub that runs on solar power. Today I found another one. Though, it actually launched a little before the Tesla one. It’s a new hub with 18 fast chargers for fleet vehicles. … [continued]
The story of the United States corn ethanol industry is a story about a sector that grew rapidly under a very specific set of policy, technology and market conditions. It filled a gap when gasoline demand was rising, when climate policy focused on incremental change, and when EVs were still … [continued]
Enhanced geothermal systems have been positioned by advocates as a scalable source of firm, low carbon electricity that can complement wind and solar. The idea has appeal. The deep heat of the crust is available everywhere and geothermal energy is not intermittent. Policy agencies have published scenarios showing EGS costs … [continued]
TL;DR: Fossil narratives are collapsing. Economics, physics, and real-world deployment all now point one way: solar + storage. For several decades now, the fossil lobby has followed the renewable sector like a bad debt — constantly painting molehills as mountains, inventing false comparisons, and trying to derail public understanding any … [continued]
When I was invited onto UK energy regulator Ofgem’s eight-part Inside Energy podcast to discuss where the next great shift in the global energy system might come from as part of the closing episode, due to drop in January, the hosts likely expected an answer rooted in Europe or Asia. … [continued]
When I wrote recently about the rise of DC power, from long HVDC transmission lines to the direct current loads inside our laptops and EVs, someone pointed me toward what they described as a third type of electricity. They called it fault-managed power, or FMP, and said it combined the … [continued]
