Energy & Climate Pieces

Energy literacy:
Articles on energy literacy fundamentals, based on university lectures.

•Numeracy Numeracy for Energy and Environmental Lawyers

•Subsidy How Much is Energy Subsidized?

•Candor Candor, Climate, and the Energy Transition

•Systems Thinking in Energy Systems

Energy legal surveys:

•USA Energy legal survey

•USA Electricity legal survey

•USA Natural Gas legal survey

•USA Oil legal survey

Clean energy technology:

•Cleantech that will thrive in 2025 Panel presentation at Texas A&M Law School, “Cleantech at the Crossroads or in the Crosshairs?”

•Twin transitions (energy/e-mobility) Lecture at Stanford Law School, “An Energy Lawyer Looks At The Mobility Transition”

•Critical minerals Collected articles on rare earths, lithium, and other materials

•Critical materials for energy transition

•Mining on the moon? Extraction of lunar resources is being planned, but who owns Luna?

•Hydrogen policy & projects

•Battery storage valuation

•California energy transition

•Carbon removal research

Renewable energy:

•Offshore wind outlook

•Geothermal energy

•Microwave space solar

Conventionals:

•CCUS project development

•CCUS project finesses & game-changers

•Decommissioning offshore platforms

•Deepwater Horizon decade

•Oil strategic alliances

•Oil & gas farmouts & sales

•California oil & gas

Data centers and artificial intelligence:

•Anatomy of a data center

•A field guide to data center species

•Big Data meets Big Green

•Artificial intelligence in renewable energy

•University of Texas at Austin podcast , “AI For The Rest of Us” with Marc Airhart, November 2024

•AI and data centers in 2025, a time of legal and technological disruption