Many products are sold for less than their cost to society. The result of this cost-price discrepancy is called a negative externality. This article provides a basic framework for approaching costs and externalities and how they are implicated in daily behaviors. The article incorporates fossil fuels into its discussion and underscores the importance of basing decisions on the full picture of costs and prices.
Navigating the world of renewable heating and cooling is challenging and intimidating. This article serves as a basic guide to approaching the different heating and cooling options available, and the future of renewable heating and cooling.
This article uses a popular example in Tesla cars to illustrate the interdependence between “Electrify” and “Transition” as stages in a holistic sustainable transition.
When many people think of renewable energy, a solar panel comes to mind. Yet, despite solar’s enormous cultural and economic clout, many of the basics of solar power have yet to be widespread. This article outlines the four distinct ways that humans harness the power of the sun, the applications of these uses, and what the future may hold for them.
Although still small in the renewable energy sphere, hydrogen power has recently been gaining traction (and funding) in many markets outside of the Eastern United States. While still a way off of wide scale proliferation, many people know very little about hydrogen as a renewable energy. This article sets out to give a basic overview of hydrogen, its limitations, and where its place in the future of renewable energy might be.