Spring 2023
Everybody cooks. Whether using World Health Organization-designated “clean fuels” – electricity, biogas, natural gas, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), solar or alcohol – or “dirty fuels,” such as charcoal, kerosene, biomass or wood, most basic foods must be heated to be edible. Globally, 2.4 billion people lack access to clean cooking....
Solutions all too often enter an industry and prove to be singular in effect. Their ability needs to extend past solving one issue, leaving a looming surplus of others that can still thwart business success. Black Powder Solutions (BPS), however, services the energy industry while offering innovative technology that increases...
Four Ways AI Turns Insights Into Impacts In Renewables
We’ve all read the headlines around the promises artificial intelligence (AI) makes to save the day in almost every industry. AI delivers profits, cuts costs, optimizes production and aligns resources, to name a few. Yet these impacts only scratch the surface when looking at AI’s potential to disrupt renewable energy...
ZeroSix: Integrity in the Wild West of Carbon Credits
“If you want to reach net zero, and you want to meet all these commitments, the most valuable barrels may be those that are left in the ground.” This was the provocative opening line of Martijn Dekker’s keynote speech late last year at an energy conference in Houston, Texas. CEO...
Hydropower in the U.S.: Why We Should Give A Dam
On March 2, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to invest $3.7 million to expand collaboration on the sometimes competing goals of maintaining hydropower as a key source of renewable energy while supporting communities and protecting the environment. The project will be led by the nonprofit organization...
Recalibrating Collaboration for the Energy Trilemma
History’s greatest accomplishments are rarely the result of any single individual’s work. Yes, there may have been a prominent figure in the spotlight – Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Henry Ford and so on – but, more often than not, there’s a wider team collaborating to help turn that person’s vision...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (Spring 2023)
Welcome to our first quarterly issue of 2023! Last year was the first full year of publication for ENERGIES Magazine, the latest addition to U.S. Energy Media’s portfolio. Because of our belief that it will take all forms of energy to power the planet, ENERGIES, with its focus on renewables,...
Technology Breakthrough Transforms Flaring Gas to Clean Hydrogen
Gas flaring is now recognized as a major contributor to the emission of harmful gases affecting climate change and society by creating increased incidences of cancer in communities close to flaring sites. Sadly, flaring has been around for more than 150 years since the advent of oil and gas production,...
Living Deliberately in the City
Somewhere in my subconscious, I believe I was driven by a Thoreau-like obsession to live deliberately. More in the forefront of my mind, I knew I was inspired by Earthships when I endeavored to add onto my modest 740-square-foot home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I’m located just outside the city...
