Fuel
FUEL examines future of energy by asking about the politics, science, and history that have shaped the impending crisis of supply while describing possible futures. How will world work after coal and oil? Will the changes be slow or sudden? How might we steer toward a future without massive disruption to our economic life? FUEL addresses these and other questions about the necessary radical reinvention of energy.
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Introduction to ‘Fuel’
By John Knechtel
The carbon-burning system that fuels our lives is all-encompassing and unsustainable. We will have to spend forty-five trillion dollars over forty years, by the International Energy Agency’s estimate, to convert half of the world’s annual energy requirements to renewable sources (we can eliminate the other half through conservation). To achieve these goals by 2050 we will have to spend as if we are engaged in a world war. Dozens of nuclear plants, ten thousand wind turbines, solar panels in the hundreds of millions, hundreds of geothermal and biomass plants, and more, must be built every year, along with increasingly energy- efficient cars, buildings, and factories.
Select features from ‘Fuel’
Resource Fields
By Mason White
Because the world is now consuming resources at more than twice the rate of their...
Occupying the Caspian Sea
By Maya Przybylski
What all five countries are hoping for is secure access to a largely untapped reservoir...
The Post-Carbon Highway
By Geoffrey Thün Kathy Velikov RVTR
The 1930s saw the beginning of the construction of this astonishingly efficient strategically engineered system,...
Velo City
By Chris Hardwicke
It’s Monday morning. You grab your gear and strap your bag onto your bike. It...
Blankety Blank
By Candice Tarnowski, Text: Susannah Wesley
Packed with energy, Candice Tarnowski’s installation Blankety Blank presents a landscape on hold. Sliced and...
A.I.R.
By Sara Graham, Lateral Architecture
Canard Development Group is a revolutionary planning and urban design group that creatively links social...
‘Fuel’ media
Oil Fields
By Edward Burtynsky
“What's in store when the looming hangover from a dying oil party hits.”
Wood Piles
By Vid Ingelevics
“Can a pile of wood waiting to be burned also be seen as a form of vernacular...”
