Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:45:08 +0000
Maybe there will be an interesting book about Aptera after it inevitably fails. More likely it would be a moderately interesting chapter in a book about really bad ideas
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:35:42 +0000
Woke or not, Kentucky is behind a new green steel factory that supports President Joe Biden’s goal for offshore wind development in the US.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:35:38 +0000
Absurdly predictable. Absurdly well predicted. Absurdly impactful. Ignored by virtually everyone. Gray rhino. But climate change isn’t a gray rhino risk anymore.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:30:18 +0000
Rail requires a lot more tunnels, and as the data shows, any time you are digging tunnels, fat-tailed risks abound and projects operate more slowly.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:47:30 +0000
Noon Energy says its technology can deliver long term energy storage at a fraction of the cost of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:50:40 +0000
Since Biden took office, manufacturers have quadrupled their announced electric vehicle manufacturing and battery investments in the U.S. to $210 billion, more than any other country in the world. The United States is now poised to attract the most investments globally in electric vehicle and battery manufacturing, for the first time surpassing announced investments in […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:30:32 +0000
Will the small modular nuclear reactor community be able to find an optimized point on the physics vs modularity curve? I don’t think so, and discussed it with Bent Flyvbjerg, global megaproject expert.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:45:17 +0000
Gray rhinos are about the strategic perspective of what is important to do, and black swans are about the tactics of dealing with it most effectively and efficiently. Gray rhinos say focus on big issues like climate change, and black swan awareness help us deliver climate solutions.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:47:47 +0000
Projects have what are called fat-tail risks and results. There’s a lot more variation at the extremes than for other things like human height.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:10:41 +0000
Shares in Tesla were pummeled in 2022. Will 2023 see a resurgence? CNBC asks analysts to weigh in on that question.