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Journalism by Peter
Fairley
Energy
Selections from over 15 years of reporting on energy, charting low-carbon technologies -- and the entrenched energy systems that stand in their way
HOT STUFF
Green building is a growing passion that I've already hit three times in 2013:
A Force of Nature - an
Architectural Record tech feature - explores the funky designs and iffy performance of wind turbines built into urban structures; a news piece for
Spectrum reveals rooftop solar power's rapidly
spreading price parity with grid power; and Unequal Yet Superior
- an editorial for Architectural Record - argues that rooftop panels providing backup power for their owners
will also make grid power more reliable for the have-nots. Final highlight: My French television debut in which I debated the
year-ahead for energy and the
environment in 2013 with the president of France's oil & gas association, a Green Party economist, and a former director of UNEP on France 24. Part One
explores shale gas, while Part Two
goes wider, opening and closing with my critique of Obama on climate change and a sober take on trans-Arctic shipping.
GREEN BUILDING
“Rooftop Solar Heads Toward Grid Parity” > Spectrum < 2013
“A Force of Nature” > Architectural Record < 2013
“Smart
phones negotiate the low-energy office” > Tech Review < 2012
“Direct-Current
Wiring Gains Ground” > Spectrum < 2011
“Coming
of Age” > Arch Record - GreenSource
< 2011
“Frankfurt’s
Electronically Controlled Exteriors” > Spectrum < 2010
“The
design power of photovoltaics” > Architectural Record < 2004
“Lighting
Up the Andes” > Spectrum < 2004
SMARTER GRIDS
“AC v DC: A Second War of Currents” >
Power & Energy < 2012
“San Francisco's Secret DC Grid” >
Spectrum < 2012
“Real Electricity from Virtual Power Plants” > Tech Review
< 2012
“Why
Japan's Fragmented Grid Can't Cope” > Spectrum < 2011
“A
Voltage Downgrade Saves Power” > Spectrum < 2010
“An
Interstate Highway System for Energy” > Discover < 2009
“Breaking
Europe's Transmission Bottlenecks” > Spectrum < 2008
“Closing the Circuit in North Africa” > Spectrum < 2008
“Power
Transmission Without Power Electronics” > Spectrum < 2007
“TransÉnergie: Playing Power Games” > Technology
Review < 2005
[radio] “The Unruly Power Grid” > Spectrum < 2004
[radio] "A
Smarter Power Grid" > Technology Review < 2001
RENEWABLE ENERGY
“Dateline Istanbul: Hittite Solar Energy” > Spectrum < 2012
“Europe Looks to North America's Forests” > Spectrum < 2012
“Peace
River a wind-power success story” > CBC News < 2011
[radio] “Earthquakes
Hinder Green Energy Plans” > Spectrum
< 2011
“Smarts
for Solar Arrays” > Spectrum
< 2010
“Plastic
Solar Cells Roll Into Unlit Villages” > Spectrum < 2009
“Sniffing
Out Geothermal Energy Resources” > Earthzine < 2009
“Turning
Turkey Guts Into Oil” > Discover
< 2008
“China
Doubles Wind Watts” > Spectrum
< 2008
“Solar-Cell
Squabble” > Spectrum <
2008
“Solar-Cell Rollout” > Technology Review < 2004
“BP
Ditches Thin Film Photovoltaics” > Spectrum
< 2003
NUCLEAR and FOSSIL ENERGY
“Quicker Coal Power” > Spectrum < 2012
[radio] “Alberta's Oil Sands Heat Up” > Tech Review < 2011
“A Call for Safer Handling of Nuclear Waste” > Tech Review < 2011
“The Quest to
Sequester” > Technology Review
< 2010
“Power from
Coal Without the Digging” > Technology
Review < 2009
“King
Coal Eats Its Vegetables” > Spectrum
< 2009
“Does
Fusion Have a Future?” > Spectrum
< 2008
“Syn City”
> Spectrum
< 2007
“Nuclear
Wasteland” > Spectrum <
2007
“China’s
Coal Future” > Technology Review
< 2007
“Carbon
Dioxide for Sale” > Technology
Review < 2005
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
“Hydrogen: The Dream that Won't Die” > Tech Review
< 2012
“Next
Generation Biofuels” > Nature
< 2011
[radio] “Will Electric Vehicles Finally Succeed?” > Tech Review < 2011
“Deflating
the Air Car” > Spectrum <
2009
“Fuel-saving
Software Looks at the Road Ahead” > Spectrum < 2009
“Two-wheelers
battle for gold in Beijing” > MSN
Green < 2008
“China’s
Cyclists Take Charge” > Spectrum
< 2005
“Hybrids’
Rising Sun” > Technology Review
< 2004
"Time
to Hit the Gas" > Sunday Times of London < 2001
"Fuel cells: On
a road to nowhere" > Canadian Business < 2000
"FutureCar: Materials to Make It Happen" > Chemical Week <
1999
POLICY
“Post-Sandy Grid: Unequel Yet Superior?” > Architectural Rec. < 2013
“The Inconvenient Science of Biomass Power” > Spectrum < 2012
“Japan’s
Post-Fukushima Power Struggle” > Spectrum
< 2011
“How Technology Failed
in the Gulf” > Technology Review
< 2010
“China Cleans Up”
> Technology Review < 2010
“Power
Potential and Pitfalls on the Congo” > Earthzine < 2010
“Carbon
Trading on the Cheap” > Technology
Review < 2009
“Germany’s
Green Energy Gap” > Spectrum
< 2009
“Does
Daylight Saving Time Save Energy?” > MSN Green < 2007
“The
Greening of GE” > Spectrum
< 2005
“Digging
a Carbon Hole for Canada” > AlbertaViews
< 2003
PLUS breaking energy coverage at TechReview.com
(also
published in Chinese / Italian / Spanish / Portugese / German)
Whither Nuclear Technology Minus France? : Europe's Carbon Trading Woes & U.S. Climate Policy : Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar : Edison's Revenge: The Rise of DC Power : A Rising Sun for Renewable Energy : What We Learned About Nuclear Safety from Fukushima : Fracking Quakes Shake the Shale Gas Industry : Exploiting China’s
Coal While It’s Still Underground : Biofuels Take Off
: Hotter Solar Energy : Fukushima's Spreading
Impact : Where Solar Power Meets
the Oil Field : Making Electric
Vehicles Pay Off : Natural Gas to
Chemicals : The
Great Vanishing Oil Spill : Europe's Renewables
Unfazed by Recession : How to Prevent Deepwater
Spills : Another
Chance to Stop the Gulf Leak : How Technology Failed in
the Gulf: Offshore
Wind Expensive but Politically Popular : Chinese Wind Power Heads
Offshore : Wave
Energy Scales Off Scotland : Turning Gas Flares
into Fuel : China's
High-Speed-Rail Revolution : Power From Coal Without
Digging It Up : Low-Carbon
Fuel Rules : Using
CO2 to Extract Geothermal Energy : Stealth-Mode Wind
Turbines : Testing
Cheap Wind Power : Cleaning
Up on Dirty Coal : China’s
Potent Wind Potential : Less-is-more Wind
Turbines : Hope
for FutureGen : Inside
Toyota's R&D Strategy : Cutting Coal Use with
Sunshine : Toyota
to Deliver Plug-In Hybrids : China Closes the
Cleaner-Coal Gap : Taking
Pulp to the Pump : Realizing
Lithium-Battery Potential : Europe Backs Supergrids
: Renault Bets on
Electric Vehicles : Does Car-Mounted Solar
Make Sense? : Garbage
In, Megawatts Out : Wind Power Moves into
Deep Waters : Scheduling
Wind Power : A
Power Grid Smartens Up : Solar without the
Panels : The New
CAFE Standards : Prospecting
for Power : Cleaner
Nuclear Power? : Gadgets
to Spur Energy Conservation : Fixing the Power Grid
: Storing Solar Power
: Thin Film’s
Time in the Sun : Record
Efficiency for Plastic Solar Cells : Ultra-efficient
Photovoltaics : Tidal
Turbines Help Light Up Manhattan : Zero Tolerance for
Coal-Fired Power : Offshore
Wind Safe for Shorebirds : Cheaper Natural Gas
from Coal : Hybrid Power
Swap : Cleaning Up
Combustion? : Sharper Focus for PV : Why Auto
AC Makers are Sweating : Tapping
Rocks for Power
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