
Checking the arithmetic behind Britain's energy bet — and the political economy around it. Physics first, tribe never.
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Dear Greg,
Thank you for your email of 15 June, in which you let me know that the developed world’s most expensive electricity is about to cost me 13% more. I was grateful, too, for the explanation that came with it: that the remedy for ex...
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First published in the Daily Sceptic.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest oil supply shock in history. The calm around it is the most dangerous thing about it. What is coming is a spike i...
Some news I’ve been sitting on for a while.
Many of you followed The Energy Trap as it took shape here, chapter by chapter. I can now tell you what became of it. The book — rewritten, expanded, and put through the wringer of a proper edito...
Originally published in The Daily Sceptic.
Clive Pinder’s essay in the Daily Sceptic last weekend on English independence is sharply argued and often very funny. Suppose he’s right.
Suppose the United Kingdom really has become, as he char...
AMERICA’s misadventure in the Strait of Hormuz has entered its eighth week. Things are getting a little spicy. Global oil and gas supplies have tightened, energy prices have climbed, stock markets are swinging wildly, and food and fuel rati...
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I'm a former senior oil and gas operations manager with 35 years of international experience, and academic qualifications in electrical engineering and power systems, petroleum engineering, and energy economics.
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