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Every month the US EIA (Energy Information Administration) publishes production estimates for shale gas and LTO (light tight oil AKA

Hydrogen’s role in the energy sector has oscillated between periods of enormous hype and subsequent doses of cold realism. Initially

Walking around in cities small, medium, and large in Britain, at least in the south of Britain, it is obvious

This has almost certainly been the most consequential year for AI in its 70 year history. We are now undergoing

It is a momentous day today – ChatGPT celebrates its first birthday. I started using it within days or even

Eleven (mostly) green alternatives to capitalism examined under the hard light of biophysical economics. Do any pass muster? Click and see.

unravels how neoliberalism transformed energy and enabled vast privatisation and further degraded democratic governance

Have we been witnessing a second right-wing revolution, which is an ironic, orchestrated (fake?) populist reaction to the first (Thatcher/Reagan) right-wing revolution?

Economic inequality is a growing problem that affects millions, and more likely billions, of people around the world. Although some 

Over the last two decades, as public concerns have grown about climate change some high-profile activists have concluded that more

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which famously buried Pompeii, had a less well known effect on Roman wine supply, which in turn, bizarrely led to a shortage of food. We can learn some importnat policy lessons from this catastrophe made worse by foolish human behaviour.

Could Kant’s categorical imperative reduce or even reverse the tendency of conventional economics to produce extremely selfish and greedy human beings?

Putin’s war in Ukraine wars somewhere, anywhere sanctions on Russia lack of access to Russian oil and gas trade war

In an interesting Guardian piece about how rightwing newspapers like the Daily Mail and Telegraph had helped Liz Truss to

I once did some work for the London think-tank Demos in the late 1990s and I remember that they had

Every year, early in the summer, bp produces its Statistical Review of World Energy. Unlike many other energy publications, the

Perhaps we should call September international gas month. To start with, we (in Britain) have serious problems with natural gas

We watched the Social Dilemma a couple of nights ago. Very fascinating and intriguing. It illustrates, inter alia, how societies

The electoral process is flawed but probably for very different reasons than you might think! What is really flawed is