Gail Tverberg
Editor / Researcher
OurFiniteWorld.com
Areas of Expertise:
I am trained as a casualty actuary (BS in math from St. Olaf, Master's, MS from Univ. of Ill - Chicago, Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society). I have done insurance modeling and analysis for many years. In 2005, I became interested in the issue of limited oil supply, because I was aware that oil limits could affect financial institutions, including insurance companies and banks. I originally wrote only about the issue from the point of insurance companies. I became a volunteer for TheOilDrum.com website in 2007, to write about the subject more generally. I have written literally hundreds of articles since them. This is a link to an article I wrote published in the journal Energy called, Oil Supply LImits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. My blog where most of the articles I write now is OurFiniteWorld.com.
Recent Posts by Gail Tverberg
Recent Comments by Gail Tverberg
- "One thing to keep in mind is that electricity needs are quite seasonal. Typically, the peak electricity need is in the winter when electricity is used"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "I agree with pretty much everything you have said. I particularly like, ""
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Thanks for the link to the article that comes to the same conclusion that I do.
I think that the underlying issue is that intermittent renewables d"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "From a physics point of view, our economy is a dissipative system. As such, it is a self-organized system whose purpose is to dissipate energy. Other "
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "I am very much aware of space solar power. In fact, I think I am in the same Google Group as you are with respect to space solar. I know I have a lot "
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Let me point out a couple of issues. One of them is that the common belief that we "run out" of fossil fuels is basically wrong. The problem is that t"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "I think you are mostly right--we may very well have blackouts in the near future, if we use intermittent renewables. Part of the problem is that when "
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "I think I have seen the study you are talking about. The study didn't try to go into all of the engineering detail that would be needed to actually le"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "I think that there are several things you are forgetting. Even if it looks like we can get 80% of our electricity from intermittent renewables, we sti"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Storage helps, but it doesn't solve all energy problems. There is substantial seasonality in both electricity energy production and electricity energy"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity