Honest analysis of clean energy, climate policy, and environmental tech. No greenwashing, no hype — just perspective backed by specific numbers and real decisions.
3 pieces published most recently. Each one takes a position — read them in order or start with whichever title stops you first.
Many older adults interested in solar energy make a few specific errors before getting started. Here is what those errors look like in practice and how to see them clearly.
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Installing a heat pump before addressing insulation is a common and costly error. This article walks through why the order of green home upgrades matters more than the upgrades themselves.
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Older adults switching to electric vehicles often encounter problems that were entirely predictable. The article identifies three specific assumptions that cause the most frustration.
Read pieceA chronological checklist of the most important events in air quality protection, explained simply for those new to the topic.
By Declan Forde ReadA quiet walk through macroeconomic history, tracing key experiments and their real outcomes across decades of policy shifts and measured consequences.
By Orla Fennelly ReadA checklist of the key air quality indicators beginners encounter in legislation and monitoring reports, with plain explanations of each metric.
By Oisin Carmody ReadThe full archive holds 8 years of positions on climate tech, energy infrastructure, and policy shifts. Worth a slower browse.
Publishing rhythm means some articles land in quiet weeks. 3 pieces below consistently resurface in reader recommendations months after they were written.
Each one addresses a question that was premature when published but is now squarely in focus: storage economics, grid flexibility, and the actual cost of inaction.
Battery storage costs fell 89% in a decade — and the incentives still missed the point
Published during the policy debate, the numbers held up better than the policy arguments. Worth reading for the cost breakdown alone.
Open pieceGrid operators are not the obstacle — procurement timelines are
A structural argument that gets cited in infrastructure conversations because it names the 18-month bottleneck most people skip past.
Open pieceWhat a €40 per tonne carbon price actually changes — and what it does not
Three sectors, specific numbers, a clear answer to whether price signals alone do anything below a threshold that no jurisdiction has reached.
Open pieceNew pieces appear 2 to 3 times per month. Each publication cycle covers one of 4 recurring clusters: energy economics, climate regulation, material technology, and built environment. No filler.
1. Ulnarik is a single-author publication. Every article is written from a declared position, not from a neutral aggregator stance. If an argument is weak, it says so. If data conflicts with a popular conclusion, the data wins.
2. The focus on green technology is not ideological — it is structural. Energy and materials shape every other economic decision. Writing about them with specificity matters more than writing about them with enthusiasm.
3. Readers here tend to be working on decisions, not just following a topic. The writing is calibrated for that: specific enough to be useful, opinionated enough to be worth arguing with.
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