We need to upend our energy system in the next 5 years
To power all the data centers coming online, experts believe we need to build 150–200 GW of new electricity generation. Under our longstanding top-down energy system, that will not be possible. But there is an alternative solution.
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics (part 3)
We're here to get a better feel for how many renewables we need to build, how many we've built already, and how we might compare the relative value of different power producers.
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics (part 2)
The average American household uses about 30 kilowatt-hours over the course of a day. If we only had 30 states, I’d have a great mnemonic device for remembering that.
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics
When I first started learning about clean energy, I struggled to contextualize the many numbers, units of measurement, and abbreviations that get thrown around. This is my attempt to make it easier for you than it was for me.
The clean energy transition: why you want it, the sickos who don’t want you to have it, and how we’re gonna get it anyway
We are so close to living in a world in which everyone on earth has access to clean, renewable energy. A world without wars fought over oil. A world without air pollution, which kills 7 million people every year. And, yes, a world that sees the reversal of climate change.
Everything you need to know about the clean energy transition if you’re not sure you know anything
The clean energy transition to powering everything imaginable with 100% clean energy is already underway. But how long the transition takes is still very much unknown—and not just because Big Dystopia is doing everything they can to slow it down.
