Jan 15, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Climate of Contempt argues that in order to develop a full understanding of the energy transition and its politics, one has to engage people who hold a diversity of views on the subject. Engage people directly, not just read about their views. Every time an energy or...
Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
This month’s energy transition worries focus on AI servers and what energy sources will power them, the details of subsidizing clean hydrogen production, and how much damage the Trump Administration will do to the energy transition. In the heat of policy or...
Jan 5, 2025 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Can you have a healthy democracy without a common set of facts? This is the question of 21st century U.S. politics, and the linked article (subscription required) uses it to explain the ways in which the U.S. media feeds anger and polarization. Their analysis is...
Jan 1, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without; for I see clearly that the combined foreign world could not beat her down. But the savage, wolfish parties alarm me. Owning no law but their own will, more and more...
Dec 20, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
[Part 1 of this post is here.] This will be the last blog post for 2024, so here’s a gift suggestion for the holidays. Consider helping someone you love develop a greater appreciation for “option value” as a public good. It sounds complicated and...
Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
Because affordable, reliable electric service is an essential element of our lives, voters tend to worry about it, and to react strongly to the risk of its loss. The provision of energy services over a centralized network of transmission lines is a collective service,...
