The ancient Greek thinker Heraclitus must be the unacknowledged patron philosopher of renewables. His doctrines of eternal flux and change, written around 500BC, today travel in the currents on which the global wind, solar and ocean energy industries are being built. His best-known dictum — “Only change is unchanging” — embodies the Energy Transition.
The plain truth apparent to all but the most devoted latter-day Luddites is that the global energy system is poised on the edge of a “once in a century” transformation.
