Energy

Timothy Lieuwen proposes a framework that universities can use to evaluate potential research funding relationships with oil and gas companies in light of their own values.

Demand-pull policies for energy innovation must operate in parallel with traditional supply-push policies to speedily create a higher-performing, cleaner, more affordable, and more secure energy system.

Radical designs for fission and fusion energy systems require engineers who are grounded in technical knowledge, adept at engaging communities in participatory design, and fluent in ethical, equity-centered communication.

Fusion energy faces many hurdles. The history of the biotech industry offers lessons for how to build public trust and create a robust investment ecosystem to help fusion achieve its potential.

Until fusion technologies can meet society’s goals, government-supported research should remain broad, and stakeholders should resist attempts to narrow its reach.

Tension between the promise of new nuclear technologies and uncertainty about their feasibility requires a diversified, balanced research portfolio that can be adjusted locally in concert with global progress.

Hydrogen has been “the fuel of the future” for a century. Whether it actually becomes an important part of a climate-friendly energy system depends as much on the cost of greenhouse gas emissions as it does on the tricky process of finding cheap, safe, and easy ways to harness hydrogen’s advantages.

A wind-to-ammonia pilot project shows how localized green energy applications can slash carbon intensity, empower farmer cooperatives, and keep wealth in rural communities.

How the Gulf Research Program, created after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is working to support the Gulf of Mexico’s energy sector, coastline, and communities.

Monique Verdin joins host JD Talasek to discuss using art and science to understand a Gulf that is being reshaped by climate, industry, and more. A citizen of the United Houma Nation, Verdin’s art practice and community activism give voice to indigenous and marginalized communities in the South while building bridges with science communities.

What we learned in reviewing 10 years of grantmaking for research aimed at decarbonizing energy systems.

Monique Verdin’s work seeks to understand the profound ways that climate, the fossil fuel industry, and the shifting waters of the Gulf of Mexico are changing a place that has been a refuge for her Houma ancestors.