In 2019, the 331 million people living within the United States spent an estimated $1.2 trillion to meet their combined needs for an array of energy services (EIA 2020). That is equivalent to an economy-wide per capita energy bill of about
By: John Reed and Jerome Dion July 19, 2018 Policymakers and business leaders are issuing calls to accelerate productive investments that address both climate change and societal resource sustainability issues. Indeed, in the last 40 years there have been significant
By: George Burmeister* Local government leaders are starting to see the climate and economic necessity of decarbonizing and transitioning to 100-percent renewable electricity supply. They are now focusing on the importance of investments to transform their economies by the productive use
By: Ryan Keller We live in a world full of many different energy resources. Some of these we’ve learned to capture by harnessing wind and light. The latter we call solar photovoltaics. But there are still many untapped forms of
By: John A. “Skip” Laitner In 2017, businesses, households, and government enterprises throughout the global economy spent an estimated €6.4 trillion to meet the many demands for various energy services. Current projections suggest the present scale of annual expenditures may
John A. “Skip” Laitner According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the United States will spend ~$1.1 trillion in 2017 for its many uses of energy — whether for heat, electricity, or for transportation needs. At the same time,
There is neither a law of physics nor economics that prevents us from quadrupling the productive use of energy and other resources. Rather, it is much more an issue of imagination and our political will to get it done.
– John A. “Skip” Laitner