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Based on 2017 data, an average American consumes about 800 times the electricity as an average citizen of Guinea Bissau. In other words, an average American uses more electricity in one day than an average Guinea Bissau citizen does in two years. Should we chide the rich Americans for...

The problem with offsets If yours were a large steel company throwing out millions of tons of CO2 emissions every year, but unable to reduce these emissions because of the constraints of the current technologies and processes used to produce steel, you can still contribute to "reduced emissions" by...

If you look at it from one angle, the term low carbon doesn’t make much sense, and no carbon even less. Because life on earth is all about carbon. Plants, humans, we are all made of carbon. Just in case you didn’t realize it until now, repeat it after...

When you try to capture CO2 in the atmosphere, you are trying to capture something that is present in very small concentrations - one in two thousandth. It doesn’t need a genius to figure that doing this is gonna need a lot of energy directly or otherwise, and more...

Durable bioplastics are not biodegradable Now, here is a bit of irony. About 3 million tons of bioplastics are produced worldwide, which in itself is not a lot - only about 1% of the total plastics production. More interestingly, a large percentage of the bioplastics produced is actually durable...

This post is a part of my CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Series. See all posts in this series here To fly or not to fly One Delhi-NYC-Delhi flight trip emits so much CO2 emissions PER PASSENGER that it is equivalent to the emissions from running a 1 ton AC daily for...

This post is a part of my CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Series. See all posts in this series here - India wants to produce EVs, CNG and biofuels for vehicles at the same time If you carefully listen to Indian policy makers, you will realize that they are keen on promoting...

This post is a part of my CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Series. See all posts in this series here Biomass is a distributed source of energy. Is that an opportunity or a problem? There is one thing about fossil fuels that makes them incredibly useful - they are concentrated in large...

  This post is a part of my CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Series. See all posts in this series here China sells over 30 million electric bicycles a year Driven by a mix of Chinese government mandates and low cost electric bicycles, about 32 million electric bicycles were sold in the...

This post is a part of my CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Series. See all posts in this series here Engineers screwed the environment. Why are we letting them lead the unscrewing? The title is deliberately provocative, but let me explain. The year is 1800. Pre industrial world. Global population: 1 billion...