Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Tomorrow, I begin teaching my decarbonisation course for the third time to postgraduate students far younger, far more sleep-deprived, and far more socially enlightened than I ever was at that age. Writing today’s blog is a last-ditch attempt to clarify the swirling mess of messages and competingContinue reading “Ruminations on Social Justice, Narratives Being the Truth, and Decarbonisation”
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Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies First, I want to return to my dark old friend, cognitive dissonance. Some rightly accuse me of using complex language. Cognitive dissonance is that awkward brain glitch when you’re doing one thing but know deep down you should be doing the exact opposite—like eating a large pizzaContinue reading “Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking”
Further Ruminations on Whether Green Hydrogen in South Africa Might be a Boondoggle
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies I know that I can a be bit boring and tedious about green hydrogen, but I haven’t talked about it for a least a few months so it’s time to go there again as I must. For those of you who have tired of this nerdy topic pleaseContinue reading “Further Ruminations on Whether Green Hydrogen in South Africa Might be a Boondoggle”
Eclectic ruminations on forecasts, dead horses, and climate change
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies Dearly beloved readers, as you may have inferred from my previous blog posts, I’m deeply passionate about the issues surrounding forecasts and ambitious target-setting. To say I have a bee in my bonnet about it is an understatement—I have a whole hive buzzing with thoughts on this topic.Continue reading “Eclectic ruminations on forecasts, dead horses, and climate change “
Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies This week, as promised and since the holidays are over, I will return to the topic of energy. Looking at some of my earlier blog posts on energy there was a lot of engineering techno-nerd stuff written by someone in the mirror who has extreme intuition about allContinue reading “Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition”
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