GetRealList https://www.getreallist.com Deal With Reality or It Will Deal With You Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:52:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Moving on… https://www.getreallist.com/moving-on.html Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:52:02 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=4127 After 5.5 years of working full-time at RMI while building the Energy Transition Show podcast in my nights and weekends, I have moved on in order to work on the podcast full-time. This site will no longer be updated. Because this domain was hijacked by spammers, all email addresses associated with this domain have also been […]

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]]> My new gig https://www.getreallist.com/my-new-gig.html Sat, 05 Dec 2015 16:22:27 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=3314 If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting, it’s because I have moved to Boulder, Colorado to take a full-time job with the Rocky Mountain Institute where I’m working on transition in the electricity sector. I am not really writing anymore, other than the very occasional piece (and some of those pieces aren’t even public). So if you […]

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]]> Announcing the Energy Transition Show https://www.getreallist.com/announcing-the-energy-transition-show.html Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:39:22 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=3292 I’m very pleased to announce that I have recently launched a weekly podcast, “The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder.” In it, I seek out independent and knowledgeable experts on all aspects of energy transition for in-depth, data-filled interviews, and toss in some of my own observations and comments on recent energy-related news stories…plus some topically […]

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]]> Guest appearance on The Energy Gang podcast https://www.getreallist.com/guest-appearance-on-the-energy-gang-podcast.html Thu, 14 May 2015 21:01:06 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=3004 I made a guest appearance on The Energy Gang podcast today (a production of Greentech Media), to talk about peak oil and the challenges of energy and transportation transition. My segment runs for about the first half an hour. You can listen to it here or via your favorite podcast player, or just play it below. My […]

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]]> My most recent project: NPV+ https://www.getreallist.com/my-most-recent-project-npv.html Thu, 14 May 2015 20:30:08 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=3007 Belatedly, I thought I’d update my readers on what I’ve been up to for the past 18 months in my work at the Global Footprint Network, which is now concluded. I created, launched and managed an innovative cost-benefit analysis methodology called NPV+, which internalizes real costs and benefits that are often externalized in budget decisions, and uses scenarios […]

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]]> Taking over the grid https://www.getreallist.com/taking-over-the-grid.html Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:05:29 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=2966 I have a new short piece in Petroleum Economist surveying the growth of wind and solar around the world, and the outlook for fossil fuels on the grid. The first few paragraphs are free to read, but the rest is behind a paywall. Read it here: Taking over the grid

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]]> The straight dope on oil prices https://www.getreallist.com/the-straight-dope-on-oil-prices.html Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:40:55 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=2901 Oil is back above the fold as prices continue to crash, but most of the coverage has been overly focused on geopolitical narratives and missing the point, which is written in the data as plain as day. So I wrote a short explainer about what’s going on. Read it here: Drilling Down on the Oil Price Slide

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]]> New report casts doubt on fracking’s future https://www.getreallist.com/new-report-casts-doubt-on-frackings-future.html Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:07:04 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=2888 I am no longer writing regularly for anyone, as my full-time job has kept me quite busy. But this week I wrote up a huge (308 page) new report by geoscientist J. David Hughes for the Post Carbon Institute, which offers the most detailed and transparent data to date on U.S. tight oil and shale gas fields. […]

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]]> Stranded asset risks are larger than anyone thinks https://www.getreallist.com/stranded-asset-risks-are-larger-than-anyone-thinks.html Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:02:06 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=2873 For my final article for SmartPlanet, which is closing down as an independent publication, I take an in-depth look at the research to date on stranded carbon assets, and offer my own thoughts on the subject. I believe that the risks of stranded assets are far larger than has been contemplated thus far. Read it here: Why the potential […]

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]]> Cleantech is sexy again https://www.getreallist.com/cleantech-is-sexy-again.html Thu, 22 May 2014 00:59:10 +0000 http://www.getreallist.com/?p=2856 Back in early April, I had the pleasure of attending the Bloomberg New Energy Finance “Future of Energy Summit 2014” conference in New York City, where I heard from a large number of decidedly upbeat executives in the sector, who were very optimistic indeed about the future of renewable energy and cleantech in general. The buzz […]

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