In the mid-2010s I started writing a blog under the banner Battling Entropy.
The idea was simple: entropy is not a metaphor. It is the quiet, relentless tendency of systems to decay, fragment and drift toward disorder. Civilisation exists because we push back—by designing structures that hold their shape in the presence of that drift.
For a time, life and business intervened and the writing stopped. Entropy, as ever, kept working.
The world has changed dramatically since then. The energy system is being rewritten. Technology costs have collapsed. Storage, electrification and digital coordination are reshaping how power flows through society. Capital is moving. Institutions are hesitating. Old assumptions are straining under new physics.
And yet some things remain the same: inertia, imagination failure, and the persistent belief that yesterday’s architecture must define tomorrow’s possibilities.
This site is a place to think clearly about those tensions.
From 2026 onward, I’ll be writing about the energy transition—not as a culture war, but as a systems story. How electrification, collapsing cost curves and market design are reshaping our infrastructure. How volatility can be stabilised. How distributed technologies create new pockets of resilience. And what all of this means for the way we live.
Battling Entropy is not about perfection or utopia. It is about coherence. It is about building structures—technical, economic, institutional—that reduce friction and increase resilience.
If you are interested in how energy, economics and imagination intersect, you are in the right place.
Comments are welcome. You can contact me directly on the email below.
Take care,