Michael Liebreich

Beliefs Korrents

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  • The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuels

    What the current conflict in the Gulf - in particular the closure of the Strait of Hormuz - is going to do is to provide a further push to global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

    BloombergNEF: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 Said 27 May 2026

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    energy

  • The peak in global fossil fuel use and emissions will occur before 2030

    We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.

    BloombergNEF: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 Said 27 May 2026

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    energy

  • The failure of wind or solar power to show up has never been the primary cause of a major grid blackout.

    While renewables are almost always blamed in the aftermath of major power cuts or grid disruption - and the way they have been integrated into the grid has certainly been found to compound problems - the simple failure of wind or solar power to show up has never yet been found to be the primary cause.

    Lessons from Spain Said 19 May 2025

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  • Blaming renewable energy for grid disruptions is driven by political culture-war motives rather than genuine technical understanding.

    It's all part of the political culture wars where everything gets weaponised to push an agenda, score points against opponents or curry favour.

    Lessons from Spain Said 19 May 2025

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    energy

  • Direct air capture costing hundreds of dollars per tonne is too expensive to be part of the climate solution.

    Whatever the solution to climate change is going to be, it is certainly not going to involve anything that costs $1,000 per tonne of carbon removed, or even the $400 to $600 that they promise by 2030.

    Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset Said 12 May 2025

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  • Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.

    CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.

    Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset Said 12 May 2025

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    energy

  • Small modular reactors have so far underdelivered, remaining as slow to permit as full-scale reactors and more expensive.

    The inconvenient facts are that SMRs has so far disappointed, and look like being as slow to get through the permitting process as GW-scale reactors, and even more expensive.

    Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset Said 12 May 2025

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  • The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated

    The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.

    Are BEVs more expensive than H2FC cars? Said 17 Oct 2024

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