Who I Am
I'm an ocean engineer turned energy transition strategist who believes the climate crisis demands market solutions, not bureaucratic nightmares.
After spending years in academia studying wave energy (spoiler: it didn't save the world) and working for renewable energy companies across three continents, I've witnessed a painful truth: technically perfect solutions die when they meet political reality.
The Problem I've Seen
My PhD in ocean engineering taught me how to analyze complex systems. My subsequent failures in corporate renewable energy taught me something more valuable: why green projects actually fail. Hint: it's rarely the technology.
I speak seven languages, which means I've heard bureaucratic excuses in multiple tongues. From Portuguese permit purgatory to Spanish administrative nightmares, I've seen how good intentions pave the road to renewable energy hell.
What This Blog Explores
This blog explores a simple premise: what if we stopped trying to regulate our way to net-zero and started using market forces to make pollution unprofitable? What if the invisible hand could give fossil fuels the finger?
I write from a place of deep frustration—not with the climate crisis itself, but with how the left has hijacked climate action and turned it into ideological purity testing instead of practical emissions reduction. Meanwhile, China (Communist Party running a capitalist playbook) is crushing it on solar panel production while Western bureaucracies debate permits.
The Green Libertarian Philosophy
Green libertarianism isn't an oxymoron. It's the recognition that:
- Free markets are more efficient at solving environmental problems than command-and-control regulation
- Human nature is predictable—solutions that work WITH self-interest work better than those demanding moral perfection
- Carbon pricing, not carbon crusades, will decarbonize faster
- The left's anti-capitalist obsession has become the biggest obstacle to the energy transition
- Performative activism kills real progress
What You'll Find Here
Posts analyzing why technically sound renewable projects fail, case studies of policy disasters (especially in Portugal and Spain), critiques of climate activism theater, and practical market-based solutions that actually work because they align with how people really behave.
If you're tired of climate solutions that ignore human nature and economic reality, welcome home.
This blog is powered by Django and served from Portugal, where I can watch the ocean I once studied while contemplating how to save it through economics rather than engineering.