China’s Purchasing Power Advantage & Wright’s Law Mean Its Green Investments Go A Lot Further
China spent $546 billion of 2022’s $1.1 trillion USD global green investment, but China is getting about a trillion USD in value out of its investment.
Climate Change
Agenda Of International Road Freight Conference Makes It Clear Battery-Electric Will Dominate
At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.
Adventures In Missing The Point: Addressing Assumptions People Make About Flyvbjerg’s Work
I urge people thinking about Flyvbjerg’s work who are asking themselves, “But what about this critically important aspect of project success?,” to not assume that it isn’t covered deeply, well, and in context of other factors.
The Megaproject Paradox: Why Rail Projects Struggle To Deliver On Time & Budget
Rail requires a lot more tunnels, and as the data shows, any time you are digging tunnels, fat-tailed risks abound and projects operate more slowly.
Unpacking The Iron Law of Projects: Black Swans Vs Gray Rhinos In Clean Energy
Gray rhinos are about the strategic perspective of what is important to do, and black swans are about the tactics of dealing with it most effectively and efficiently. Gray rhinos say focus on big issues like climate change, and black swan awareness help us deliver climate solutions.
6000 US Flights Grounded: NOTAM Failure Serves As A Wake-up Call For Digital Air Traffic…
The FAA’s NOTAM system failure serves as a reminder that while the benefits of DATC are clear, the path to full implementation and acceptance will be neither smooth nor quick. It will require a concerted effort from all stakeholders in the industry and a willingness to invest in and fully embrace the technology.
7 Things You Can Do to Drive Climate Action: ChatGPT Can Help You Get Started
This article, including headlines, was written by ChatGPT with prompting by Michael Barnard as an example of the kind of attention-grabbing, good-quality content you can rapidly create to assist you to engage effectively in climate action.
LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action
In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.
What Cool Things Did You Do To Help The Planet in 2022?
Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels accumulate in the atmosphere if there is not enough absorbing biocapacity. Reducing humanity’s carbon footprint is an essential step to live within the means of our planet.
What Do You Know — Really — About The Global Carbon Budget?
How have anthropogenic activities influenced our climate system? Is there hope for the Earth’s decarbonization?
