When Accounting Meets Reality: Reflections On "Alternative Energy Solutions At Scale"
Energy, Fragility and the Cost of Pretending by Harry Blazer
Elucidating post by Harry Blazer on trying to run modern society on weather dependent energy:
“Modern research ecosystems respond to incentives. When a line of inquiry threatens a multi-billion-dollar policy and investment trajectory, it does not need to be banned. It only needs to become unfundable”
“Nature does not care about our models”
“When systems are designed to satisfy narratives rather than reality, failure is only a matter of timing”
“... systems were deployed as symbols rather than as infrastructure”
Hi Elze,
I wanted to say thank you for sharing Harry Blazer's piece — it's exactly the kind of writing I find most useful. The ratio of verifiable data to interpretation felt really well-calibrated: the physics and accounting grounding carried most of the weight, and the conclusions followed from the evidence rather than leading it. No unnamed sources, no atmospheric framing — just the work.
I hope that approach becomes more of a benchmark for what gets featured. It gives readers something they can actually use.