Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes writes engagingly and with admirable clarity a history of energy that is a woefully incomplete.

Rather than invalidating the ‘peak oil’ theory, the investor-subsidized U.S. shale oil boom might have been little more than a dangerous detour.
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Read more »Some key insights into the world’s energy use and its evolutions, based on BP’s recently published annual statistical review.
Read more »The world’s consumption of fossil fuels continues to grow faster than that of renewable energy, data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 shows.
Read more »Following a bumpy 6-year long plateau, oil production in Asia Pacific seems to have entered a phase of decline.
Read more »The world has made no progress towards decarbonizing its electricity sector over the last three decades.
Read more »Estimates of the contribution of renewable energy sources to the global energy mix vary significantly. This post documents and analyses these discrepancies.
Read more »The scientific debate about the feasibility of a full transition to renewable energy is suddenly becoming heated. Yet it may somehow be missing the point.
Read more »New research raises some crucial questions about the energetic performance of available energy storage options and their ability to support the transition to renewable energy.
Read more »New research outlines how energy resource depletion and declining energy return on investment (EROI) may affect prosperity.
Read more »Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes writes engagingly and with admirable clarity a history of energy that is a woefully incomplete.