Category: Geopolitics and Energy
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The Fourth Way for Britain’s Energy System – Plug into the Sun
As the consensus on net zero 2050 has broken, an impassioned debate has broken out, with three dominant narratives: Each perspective has some merit. Yet, all overlook the most transformative opportunity / inevitability: directly connecting to ultra-low-cost solar power generated in vast quantities in the tropics. This is not a distant dream—it is an achievable…
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What if you aren’t windy or sunny?
The future of our global energy system is largely electrified, and that electricity will mostly come from solar or wind power. Both technologies are clean, cheap/very cheap and will get cheaper. If you are a country with lots of wind and a bit of solar, (UK) or a country with lots of solar but little…
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The Energy Transition Impact on Geopolitics
I have been thinking about the big picture of the geopolitics of energy for a while and this was turbocharged when I read the book Prisoners of Geography. The author looks at ten regions, Western Europe, Russia, China, Arctic, etc. and considers how geography has and continues to lock them into policies and situations. It…