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Energy Forecasts
The US’s Energy Information Administration has released its International Energy Outlook 2011. This forecasts energy demand out to 2035. A caveat is that their assessments assume no new policy or...
View ArticleTurbulent Transitions
If you are keeping up with your futures’ reading then you’ll know about the plethora of trends and drivers that are shaping, or could shape, our future — continuing globalization, population growth or...
View ArticleA 3D printed microbattery
The research uses of 3D printing are rapidly diversifying. The latest application is a lithium ion microbattery (subscription to Advanced Materials required to read full article). Unlike existing thin...
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Forecasting energy needs and sources
Peak oil is less a topic of discussion now that shale oil in North America has been fracked open. (Click to view larger image) A range of organisations are predicting increased use of oil, as well as...
View ArticleGreening China?
After posting yesterday’s energy forecasting blog two pertinent articles on China popped up in my e-mail. The first noted that China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection appears to be taking a...
View ArticleThe China complex
Last week I flagged that China’s energy system may be going greener. Not so fast. A report in the Washington Post, picking up on an article by Yang & Jackson in Nature Climate Change [Pdf], points...
View ArticleEnergy Darwinism
If fossil fuels are the figurative dinosaurs in the energy landscape, are renewables the agile rodents poised to take over the world? That’s an on-going and often intense debate. Will new technologies...
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Nuclear manoeuvres
Is the world moving toward a nuclear power renaissance? The following chart from Technology Review shows that while traditional nuclear energy nations are scaling back, others are building nuclear...
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