Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Can we shift to renewable energy? Yes. As to how …
A great piece by Elisabeth Rosenthal in The New York Times questions the conventional wisdom that we "have to" use fossil fuels for the rest of the century. But what is that dispute really about?
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Measuring renewable energy ‘reserves’
Energy investors are familiar with oil, gas, and coal reserves. Now analysts have taken a shot at measuring renewable energy 'reserves', to enable direct comparison.
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Beyond widgets: Envisioning a real transportation revolution
A recent report showed how much carbon can be cut through changes in vehicles. But changes in transportation systems go well beyond vehicles.
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More coal-fired idiocy and mendacity in Nevada
The notoriously filthy Reid Gardner coal plant has been falsifying pollution data, and Nevada officials aren't doing shit about it, so the nearby Paiute tribe is filing suit.
