Why Does Energy Keep Surprising Us?

There are human years, dog years and light-years. Increasingly, it feels like we also need another unit of time: energy years. On this scale, the pace of change is fast, but the pace of forgetting is often even faster. What only recently counted as a foundation of energy policy returns to public debate after a […]

Why Does Energy Keep Surprising Us?

There are human years, dog years and light-years. Increasingly, it feels like we also need another unit of time: energy years. On this scale, the pace of change is fast, but the pace of forgetting is often even faster. What only recently counted as a foundation of energy policy returns to public debate after a […]

Technological Silence and Media Noise

Silence is rarely a subject of public discussion today. It is not striking enough, not clickable enough, and too difficult to sell in a headline. And yet silence, or rather its absence, is increasingly becoming one of the real costs of modern systems, including energy systems. The paradox is that the more advanced a technology […]

Let’s Not Confuse Hope with a Plan

The date on the calendar changes every day – day by day, month by month. Yet we attach special significance to the change of the year. For a few days before New Year’s Eve, we indulge the illusion that the world will start to work differently simply because the old calendar has run out of […]

How Much Stupidity Can the Energy System Withstand?

In politics, we are used to describing uncomfortable realities in the language of interests, cynicism, or calculation. It is much harder to speak about stupidity, because it does not fit neatly into categories of guilt or bad faith. In practice, it does not mean a lack of intelligence. It means a breakdown between words and […]