By Sanjeev Sabhlok first appeared in TOI on August 1, 2019, 3:34 PM IST. Permalink: Maximise the current generation’s wealth and review any CO2 issues in 2050 As a rule of thumb, 80 per cent of policy development should be about understanding the problem. Once a problem is understood, the solution generally commends itself. But in the […]
From: Sanjeev Sabhlok appeared on TOI, July 23, 2019, 3:59 PM IST. We have evolved as a species to be curious about scary things. Newspapers love to publish scary reports, which are like click-bait: they catch our attention. Health scares fascinate us the most. Environmental scares grab… We have evolved as a species to be curious about […]
By Mark Mills on Economics21.org The math behind “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking” A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have […]