The Political Challenge of Affecting a Societal Transition to Renewable Sources

Below is a summary of my presentation, The Renewables Gap, from the ASPO 2009 conference. The intent of my presentation was to highlight the political challenge of affecting a societal transition to renewable sources of energy. In particular, I focus on wind and solar, though it seems to me that the problem will be largely the same (if not worse) if we attempt to rely on other

Frankly, I’ve never been very pessimistic about our theoretical ability to adapt to peak oil. It