Michael Barnard For the past several years Michael has been analyzing and publishing reports and articles on decarbonization technologies, business models and policies. His pieces on electrical generation transformation and electrification of transportation have been published in CleanTechnica, Newsweek, Slate, Forbes, Huffington Post, Quartz, RenewEconomy, RenewablesInternational and Gizmag, as well as included in textbooks. Third-party articles on his analyses and interviews with Mike have been published in dozens of news sites globally and have reached #1 on Reddit Science. Much of his work originates on Quora.com, where Mike has been a Top Writer annually since 2012. He also has published a climate-fiction novel, Guangzhou Future Tense.
June 13th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
GE, among others, is hoping to build a 320 MW tidal generation plant in Wales. How much will it actually generate at what cost and will it actually reduce CO2 emissions
June 13th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Filling up a hydrogen car at home would require about a million dollars of equipment and a three-car garage sized space for it. Or you could just plug an electric car into the wall
June 10th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Most people don't understand most of global warming or climate change and that's okay. They just have to accept the science just as they do for gravity, GPS and airplanes
June 10th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
The world has an overheating problem, and prioritizing where the money gets spent to solve it is important. What are the choices and what's the best short-term priority
June 9th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Virginia is about to receive approval for a nuclear plant that would cost 3-5 times what the equivalent wind and solar generation would cost. And it's only 80 miles from Washington
May 18th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
The percentage of fully electric and autonomous vehicles on the road will be much higher in 2030 than today, but the majority will still be owned by individuals
May 15th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Major urban low-carbon innovations include net metering, vehicle fleet emissions standards, complete streets zoning, wind-powered trains and electric buses, all driven by regulation and policy
May 13th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Cities aren’t energy islands but can still take advantage of more wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal and other forms of clean energy
February 12th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
Recently, Elon Musk was interviewed by CNBC and made an assertion that ran shivers up a few spines: "There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation."
February 7th, 2017 | by Michael Barnard
There will be some jobs in the region due to wind, solar and geothermal energy. It's probable that they could provide tens of thousands of jobs for workers in the region. But there are never going to be close to the 785,000 coal jobs of
December 17th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
How much potential does biological carbon capture and sequestration offer? How much effort would be required to implement a large scale fix? Reasonable questions, so I went hunting for answers
November 29th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Many people are writing opinion pieces about the Chevy Bolt now that the Bolt is available for test drives. There have [&hellip
November 21st, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
NET Power is building what it claims is a no-carbon form of gas generation that's better than all the rest. It's broken ground on a 10 MW Texas plant in a consortium with Exelon Generation and Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) to prove its technology.
November 19th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Just prior to the result that trumped all news stories for a week, Tesla announced that it Supercharging would no [&hellip
November 12th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
One of the key differences between Clinton and Trump was their stances on climate change. Clinton had a strong plan to continue the USA's leadership position, and Trump disputes its existence. However, a Trump presidency isn't a disaster for climate action globally or in the US. In fact, he might actually reduce US emissions, however unintentionally
November 3rd, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Carbon capture and sequestration continues to get attention from fossil fuel companies and jurisdictions trying to maintain their profits and tax revenues. But it's worth looking at what it would cost. The scale of the problem is enormous and the cost of capturing CO2 from the air and storing it somewhere is very high -- about two times the global
November 3rd, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
The Maldives is one of the nations most threatened by sea level rise, but while it has committed to clean technology, they know it won't save them
September 16th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Indonesia is a much storied land globally, with places such as Bali and Sumatra holding mindshare as exotic destinations. But [&hellip
September 14th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
The Chevy Bolt is getting a great deal of attention right now as the company has promised more range than [&hellip
September 13th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Economic advancement goes through stages: agriculturally dominated societies to industrially dominated societies to consumer and information worker societies. It’s typically [&hellip
September 13th, 2016 | by Michael Barnard
Climate change ‘skeptics’ who have been pushed off of all their denialist positions by ugly empirical facts often resort to arguments [&hellip
