March 3, 20202Comments

How to Evaluate the Supply Security Benefits of any Energy Option

Options, any options, by allowing you more upside than downside, are vectors of antifragility-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb An earlier article in this series – How to Evaluate Benefits Delivered by an Energy Option

by Erik Kvam

Benefits of Energy Options

Carbon Drawdown

Decision-making Process

February 25, 20200Comments

How to Evaluate Environmental Preservation Benefits of an Energy Option

An earlier article in this series – How to Evaluate Benefits Delivered by an Energy Option – showed that a second step in a decision-making process for adopting a renewable energy option might

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Benefits of Energy Options

Decision-making Process

February 17, 20200Comments

How to Evaluate Economic Benefits of an Energy Option

'Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says, 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.' -- Margaret

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Benefits of Energy Options

Decision-making Process

February 10, 20200Comments

How to Evaluate Performance Benefits of an Energy Option

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. – Dale Mortensen An earlier article in this series – How to Evaluate Benefits

by Erik Kvam

Asking Right Questions

Decision-making Process

Reverse Global Warming

February 3, 20200Comments

Your Decision to Reverse Global Warming

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes

by Erik Kvam

Asking Right Questions

Buckminster Fuller

Decision-making Process

Exponentially Adopting Options

January 27, 20202Comments

How You Can Reverse Global Warming

The minute you do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life. – R. Buckminster Fuller The preceding article in this series – Unlimited Upside of

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Decision-making Process

Optionality

Reverse Global Warming

January 20, 20200Comments

Unlimited Upside of a Decision-making Process for Reversing Global Warming

Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny). – Nassim Nicholas Taleb The preceding article in this series – What Swiftly Achieving 100% Renewable

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Decision-making Process

Exponentially Adopting Options

January 13, 20201Comments

What Swiftly Achieving 100% Renewable Energy Might Look Like

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson An earlier article

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Benefits of Energy Options

Decision-making Process

January 7, 20200Comments

Decision-makers Persuading Themselves What Energy Options They Want to Adopt

Planning is about bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now. – Alan Lakein An earlier article in this series – What a Decision-making Process

by Erik Kvam

100% Renewable Energy

Benefits of Energy Options

Decision-making Process

December 30, 20190Comments

How to Compare Benefits Delivered by Energy Options

Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill – and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.

by Erik Kvam

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