I’ve been flat out with clients over the last couple of weeks, but my attention has been drawn to an interesting special report in the Economist about the future of energy. It makes the same points that have come out of the Technology Futures workshops that we’ve been running for the Shell GameChanger team. In a nutshell, these are that the hydrogen economy will never take off (too much infrastructure to build), the jury is still out of biofuels and that ‘electronification’ (an electron economy) is one of the most likely paths for energy.

One of the articles also succinctly states the case against wind power:

The ultimate goal is to harvest the sun’s energy directly by intercepting sunlight, rather than by waiting for that sunlight to stir up the atmosphere and sticking turbines in the resulting airstreams.

Recommended reading.