Category: World
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World & Policy
What’s Driving Climate Change? The Main Views and the Evidence Behind Them
Human-caused, natural cycle, milder than feared, too late, or fix it with engineering: the main views on climate change, laid out fairly,…
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Storage & Grid
Blockchain in Energy: Promise vs. Reality
Updated September 2026. Around 2017, blockchain was pitched as the technology that would remake the energy industry. Neighbors would trade solar power…
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Hydro & Ocean
Seafloor Mining: Battery Metals and the Deep-Sea Debate
Updated September 2026. Batteries, wind turbines and power lines need huge amounts of nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Scattered across parts of…
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Hydro & Ocean
The Three Gorges Dam: Power, Floods and Controversy
I wrote the first version of this in March 2023, before visiting the dam that April. Updated September 2026. The Three Gorges…
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Energy Futures
Carbon Sequestration: Capturing and Storing CO₂
The alarming increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels has led to an urgent need for innovative solutions to mitigate climate change.…
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Energy Futures
Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels
What will your city look like when the sea level rises? Meter by meter, see the impact as the ice caps melt…
