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If you're new to the clean energy transition, you're gonna need some context. Start with these posts.
30
Apr
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics (part 3)

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.
8 min read
23
Apr
A light bulb illuminates a chalkboard full of math equations

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.
6 min read
16
Apr
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics

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.
6 min read
28
Mar
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

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.
5 min read
13
Mar
A silhouette of a person with the top of their head opened up like a can of beans: a cloud of clean energy resources are flowing into the open headspace.

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.
13 min read