Energy

Prisoners to petrol: why Americans only drive hydrogen vehicles in California

Remember that classic game theory problem, the prisoner’s dilemma?

Jul 17, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Book Review: Coal, a human history by Barbara Freese

‘“Striking oil” has become a metaphor for sudden, fantastic wealth – riches derived not from hard work but from incredible luck.

Jul 16, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Why Scotland wants a national electricity price and what it means for energy bills

Electricity markets are complicated, and going down the rabbit hole leads to terminology like ‘duck curves’ and ‘de-pancaking’. However, let’s indulge…

Jul 16, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Infra Tourism: Big Pit Coal Mine, South Wales

“You were brave, wearing white shoes to a coal mine,” quipped our ex-coal-fitter guide as we boarded our cage to ascend to daylight.

Jul 10, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

A take-down of Doomberg's biased strawman argument against British energy policy

Doomberg is the most popular finance Substack, priding themselves on their ‘provocative’ and ‘practical’ research based on years of experience in…

Jul 9, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Explainer: accusations against Microsoft and Rabobank about carbon credits integrity

Another day, another carbon credits scandal. It’s getting to be a little like crypto.

Jul 9, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

German electricity insider trading and 'informational theft': a Matt Levine-esque take

Matt Levine, god of finance journalism, loves to interrogate the limits of insider trading[1], often saying its illegality rests on theft of information…

Jul 8, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Australia's nuclear joke

One reasonableish attitude to addressing climate change is waiting-and-seeing for cheaper technologies to arrive.

Jun 27, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Cutting away Japanese hills for solar power

Everything made sense in Japan, even though I could not understand anything I heard or read.

Jun 25, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Are toll roads really the “fairest” way to finance infrastructure?

I can’t fault Bloomberg columnists for talking their book.

Jun 22, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Letter to the Economist: Nothing's really changed in off-grid solar in 10 years

What is so depressing about the Economist’s article on private firms powering Africa with solar is that much of it could have been written 10 years ago.

Jun 21, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

Boardgame for Energy Nerds: Power Grid review

Renowned for trouncing my family at Catan, though rarely skilful enough to defeat my most fearsome rivals [1], I was especially excited to learn about…

Jun 14, 2024 • Lucy Shaw

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