John’s research is primarily concerned with macro-energy systems analysis. He is interested in the life cycle characteristics of renewable energy systems, with a current focus on the carbon drawdown potential of BECCS and other product pathways in the bioeconomy. He is also interested in the qualitative changes implied by future energy pathways by way of metrics such as EROI (net energy analysis). Not content to stay in his lane, his interests are informed by a fascination with the political economy of energy and the perspectives that both the orthodox and heterodox (ecological) schools of...
Anna Brockway is a PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. She holds master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Energy & Resources.
Ian works to provide decision-makers with quantitative, high-resolution projections of the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, focusing on damaging extreme events like tropical cyclones.
