Field notes
Wherever the numbers reveal something worth understanding, I write it down: energy systems, data stories, human performance, commercial intelligence. The world-moving systems that fascinate me, plus the occasional human experiment.
Electricity demand is behavioural infrastructure: nobody in this household was trying to be flexible, they were just living their week, and a measurable pattern showed up anyway. Measuring that rhythm well, down to the circuit and …
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Risk is shared across the world, but emissions leverage is concentrated in a handful of countries and sectors, and the pathway out looks different for each one of them. Effective climate policy has to hold all …
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Surface thermometers, satellites and atmospheric CO₂ measurements share almost nothing in common except their conclusion: independent instruments, different physics, and they still converge on a warming climate under rising greenhouse-gas concentrations. Uncertainty at the margins of …
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A useful green-energy comparison begins by matching the metric to the decision, since no single ranking can capture scale, depth and momentum at once. China leads on scale, Bhutan on capacity per person, Iceland on system …
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Cleaner electricity is the foundation of Australia's transition, not its completion. State pathways, industrial energy use and petroleum dependence show that a successful power-sector policy does not automatically become an economy-wide one. The transition becomes real …
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A national renewables percentage hides a country running five or six genuinely different transitions at once, split by state, resource mix and network access. Australia's next unit of transition value will increasingly come from connecting and …
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Renewable growth has already changed what generates Australia's electricity, and the data shows that change compounding fast enough that it is no longer the open question. What remains open is whether transmission, storage, flexible demand and …
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