Introduction

With colleagues and friends Gregor Semieniuk (economist) and Paul Brockway (energy analyst), I developed a mathematical framework to describe the rebound effect. More than six years in the making, Part I of our two-part paper was published today at https://doi.org/10.1177/01956574251331969. The paper speaks for itself (with more than 200 equations!). In this blog post, I want to recount the process that led to its publication. (Such stories are too rarely told.)

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The Fall 2024 ENGR333 project focused on solar PV electricity generation for Calvin University.

I was interviewed today on The Shelley Irwin Show. I discussed the Fall 2024 ENGR333 Calvin Solar Farm project.

My colleague Paul Brockway is the lead author on a new article that took six years to write: A country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy database: overview of its construction and 1971—2020 world-level efficiency results published in Environmental Research Energy.

My colleague Emmanuel Aramendia is the lead author on a new article entitled Estimation of useful-stage energy returns on investment for fossil fuels and implications for renewable energy systems published in Nature Energy.