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Michael Barnard

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Michael Barnard is Chief Strategist at The Future Is Electric Strategy (TFIE), Advisory Board member of electric aviation startup FLIMAX, and co-founder of distnc technologies. He spends his time projecting scenarios for decarbonization 40-80 years into the future, and assisting executives, Boards, and investors to pick wisely today. Whether it's refueling aviation, grid storage, vehicle-to-grid, or hydrogen demand, his work is based on fundamentals of physics, economics, and human nature, and informed by the decarbonization requirements and innovations of multiple domains. He previously served as Advisory Board Member at Electron aviation and as a Strategic Advisor at Agora Energy Technologies.

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Michael Barnard

Artificially inflated EV emissions amplified by usual anti-EV types

Illuminem Voices
Sustainable Mobility · Electric Vehicles

For anyone who thinks that EVs just aren’t all that, I would strongly recommend you confront your really obvious biases

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Michael Barnard

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Aviation · Sustainable Mobility

Aerospace and aviation is a space flush with sexy nonsense, but there’s solid work being done

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Michael Barnard

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Mobility Tech · Hydrogen

Marine shipping has to decarbonize and hype is strong around sexy but foolish solutions

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Michael Barnard

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Electric Vehicles · Mobility Tech

All ground transportation will be electric, but you wouldn’t know it from media and investors

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Michael Barnard

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Energy Transition · Sustainable Mobility

Rail is electrifying globally, with one major exception

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Michael Barnard

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Maritime · Energy Transition

Marine shipping will change radically, electrify and consume biofuels to decarbonize

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Energy Management & Efficiency

Europeans are weaning themselves off fossil fuels thanks to the energy crisis

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Power & Utilities

China’s success with wind and solar vs nuclear is explained by Bent Flyvbjerg’s new book

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Energy

Energy Vault is a poster child for why SPACs have become a destructive influence in cleantech investing

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Michael Barnard

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Hydrogen · Energy

Hydrogen shipped for energy would be at least five times as expensive as LNG

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Energy

Being human means we have biases. Rapid decarbonization requires us to confront them

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Downstream

Too little, too late, too many loopholes: pricing aviation fuel for climate impacts

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Hydrogen

Europe hopes to decarbonize Itself with hydrogen at the expense of North Africa

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Wind

A dozen years of Chinese wind, solar and nuclear generation show clear scalability winners

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Electric Vehicles

Aviation will be disrupted from below by electric regional air mobility

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

What does Bill Gates’ favorite energy guru, Vaclav Smil, get wrong?

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

Aviation is a major climate problem, but electrification and biofuels are solutions

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Michael Barnard

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Hydrogen · Green Hydrogen

Green hydrogen’s rise will coincide with falling demand

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Energy

Seven tenets of cleantech pragmatic techno-optimism

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Michael Barnard

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Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

The short list of climate actions that will work

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Power Grid

Small modular nuclear reactors were tried in the 1950s and won’t be better today

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Michael Barnard

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Energy · Power Grid

Pumped hydropower storage & redox flow batteries are the untold future of energy

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