How Do I (Big Oil) Love Thee (Big Oil)? Let Me Count the Money, Despite the Costs
The fossil fuel industry’s war against the world Sure, the fossil fuel industry is powerful, but this only means we should go after it as hard as we can.…
Author: David Guenette
The Edge of the Grid: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Regulatory, Technical, and Economic Conditions for DER and VPP Deployment (2025–2030)
Executive Analysis: The Triad of Modernization The transformation of the American electrical grid from a centralized, unidirectional system into a distributed, multi-directional network represents one of the most complex industrial…
Climate Fiction, Optimism, and Realism
“On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling: A Roundtable on Our Climate Futures with Libia Brenda, Vandana Singh, Gu Shi,…
Let’s Go Big on the Clean Energy Transition
Why Bet on Big Oil When Fossil Fuels Are Clearly Not the Future? “The clean energy transition is projected to be a strategic necessity for long-term economic stability, characterized by…
Economic Trajectories of the Clean Energy Transition: A Multi-Temporal Analysis of Consequences to 2100
Deep Research Gemini prompt: Analyze both negative and positive economic consequences of a transition to clean energy by 2035, 2050, and 2100, respectively, breaking out consequences for the general economy…
Fun with Apocalypse, Part 2
I’d written a post titled “Fun with Apocalypse”, on July 10, 2023, as I was in the last editorial review and rewrite stages for Kill Well, the first book of…
Extinctions are Interesting in Relation to Climate Change
Phrases I’d never imagined writing: “lesser extinction events” or “extinctions are interesting” This post is about “Extinctions and Optimism: What a recent study says and doesn’t say about extinctions,” by…
Putting the Bite of Law on Fossil Fuel Corruption
There’s no valid defense against the conclusion that fossil fuel energy systems expanding emissions of greenhouse gases is criminal… well, except the current law I say there’s need for as…
Let’s Not Worry So Much About “Climate Thought Police”
Andy Revkin likes Roger Pielke’s recent Substack, but it seems to me we all have better things to do Andy Rivkin writes Sustain What on Substack, and a post of…
OBBBA and PUHCA: Rigging and a Runaround
Big Oil’s been busy in all sorts of bad ways It is hard to exaggerate just how strenuously President Big Oil Stooge has been sucking at Big Oil’s greasy tit.…