Nick Van Osdol

If I weren’t waging word-based warfare against climate change, perhaps I’d wage one against, well, other words, particularly against abstractions. Whether in words or in our minds, I think they can be quite dangerous. What do I mean by an abstraction? Take the name of your friend when it pops up next to a text…

Moving beyond the abstractions such as “supply chain issues” to unpack the challenges facing the wind energy industry.

Electric Hydrogen plans to scale domestic manufacturing of electrolyzers as demand for green hydrogen grows. Further, they have competition overseas in Hystar.

The DOE allocates an initial $7B to seven different regional hydrogen hubs. Will this investment, coupled with policy, kickstart a green hydrogen industry in the U.S.?

At the beginning of this year, there weren’t many people sticking their necks out for geoengineering. At least not the tech that most folks now think of when the word ‘geoengineering’ comes up, namely solar radiation management (‘SRM’). What is SRM? It’s a large category, though at this point, most SRM proponents propose putting particles…

Evaluating whether and to what extent higher interest rates are a bane for renewable energy and decarbonization (and what we should do about it).

New companies aim to develop incentive structures to drive practice change and reduce methane emissions from rice farming and cultivation.

This piece serves as a follow-up to another recent newsletter that explored false binaries in carbon markets and the danger of false binaries in general. To keep you on your toes, I am now starting this newsletter with a binary. I know, I know. A month ago, I wrote: If you ask me to pick…

Challenges in wind energy deployment and manufacturing threaten to derail the entire renewable energy sector’s mojo.

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