by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Energy
Without nuke power, climate change threat grows [link]
The unfolding energy crisis in South Australia was foreseeable… and foreseen [link]
El Niño, La Niña and Natural Gas [link]
How the Grid Was Won: Three Scenarios for the Distributed Grid in 2030 [link]
Obama Adviser: Keep-It-in-the-Ground Movement ‘Unrealistic’ [link]
Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass [link]
Opening up electricity markets to advanced energy technologies: [link]
States Are Right to Worry about Costs of Clean Power Plan [link]
African #charcoal production has doubled in the past two decades. [link]
Mandating ethanol for gas does twice as much harm to the environment as mandatory govt. auto emission tests prevent [link]
MIT: relatively simple networking upgrades could increase the efficiency of coal power plants from 33 to 49 percent and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. [link]
Alex Epstein: How fossil fuels cleaned up our environment [link]
Germany To Halt Construction Of Offshore Wind Farms [link]
Paper: Why an Integrated approach to #transport and #renewableenergy systems is so important [link] …
Water
India: This nation that suffered the worst drought in decades is a water exporter: [link]
India’s water shortages are holding it back from becoming the world’s next factory [link]
Russian objections halt $1bn Mongolian dam: [link]
Climate change plagues Madagascar’s poor: ‘The water rose so fast’ [link]
Food
It’s Time to Rethink America’s Corn System [link]
Where did agriculture begin? [link]
Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests [link]
MIT Study: No Scientific Consensus On Global Warming Crop Impact [link]
Seaweed gains ground as a pillar of food security in South America [link]
Filed under: Week in review