The big energy challenge of the future will be supplying enough low-carbon power to meet the emerging economies’ growing demands. Although renewable capacity continues to grow, as this blog has noted in the past, notwithstanding depressed financing, waning popular interest, disappearing subsidies, and slower technological progress, there is growing concern that renewables cannot be an important […]
Spurring natural gas demand with technology
Just within a few years of its founding, the ARPA-E has done an incredible job of identifying critical innovation gaps and funding a number of creative ideas with the potential of delivering disruptive breakthroughs. We can now add speed and timeliness to the organization’s credit. The continued slump in natural gas prices underlines the commodity’s […]