Transition here is a vaguely reassuring term that helps with the greenwashing while Equinor continues doing what it knows how to do: unearthing more fossil fuel. And that, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...

Pretty much the last nail in the coffin for the idea that there’s going to be a smooth transition out of fossil fuels and into renewables that can rescue the existing high-energy global economy in ...

The publishing gods have smiled on French energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. His book, whose U.S. edition is coming out in August, is already getting wide notice. Its French title essentially ...

More and More and More. By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Allen Lane; 320 pages; £25. To be published in America by Harper in August 2025; $32.50 Those attending COP29, the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan ...

Past experience suggests the idea of energy transitions is not all it seems, argues Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Plus the latest from JET, the USA's Russian uranium ban and China's small modular reactor ...

Earth Day this year is focused on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy but the concept of the energy transition is deeply flawed, writes Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. The global history of energy ...

Is all the hope placed in renewables an illusion? A worker in a coal yard in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021. In universities, labs, corporate research departments, think tanks, ...

Because, they say, demand will persist for decades to come, so it’s “the responsible thing to do” – even though the company is also investing in renewables, albeit only a quarter as much, to help ...