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Gaia could be a super-organism: a refutation of B. Latour and T. Lenton arguments on the contrary
This is a critique of B. Latour and T. Lenton paper: “Extending the domain of freedom, or why Gaia is so hard to understand” (Latour and Lenton 2019). The Editor of Critical Inquiry journal reject...
Reply to Fthenakis et al., (2022) (refused to be published by Energies, MDPI)
We are forced to published on our webpage a reply to a paper, Fthenakis et al (2022) [1], which responding to Seibert and Rees (2021) [2] unfoundedly criticizes our work de Castro et al 2020...
GEEDS looking for a Postdoctoral researcher
The Energy, Economics and Systems Dynamics group (GEEDS) of the University of Valladolid is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join its team working on the European projects H2020 LOCOMOTION...
How is the impact of climate change on the economy measured?
Although the economics of climate change is an area that has been developing for decades, there is still a latent debate regarding ‘how much’ and ‘in what way’ this global change will affect our...
How critical is the problem of intermittency in energy transition?
The transition from a fuel-based economy to one that is neutral in greenhouse emissions is the great global challenge of this century, and represents a path of no return if we wish for our species...
Mineral demand for electrified mobility. The dark side of this type of mobility?
The emission of greenhouse gases has only increased over the years despite the increased efficiency of technological systems. This has happened for several reasons, the main one being the increased...
New article published: The potential land requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy
In this post, we summarize the main results obtained in the article published recently published “The potential land use requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy”....
Approval of the Travel Policy
Transport has become one of the largest sources of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) worldwide. This sector, in the European Union, is responsible for generating a quarter of total emissions. Moreover, some...
Response to the critics received of our article “The limits of transport decarbonization under the current growth paradigm”
A few weeks ago we published our article (“The limits of transport decarbonization under the current growth paradigm”) “What does decarbonizing transport actually mean?” in which we showed some...