So, reading more about the latest terminology in sustainability transitions (I know, I know, I should get a real job/life/whatever).
And today’s phrase to be thrown around confidently in some seminar, somewhere ages and ages hence, is (drum roll please)….
“niche anchoring”
See this good paper – “Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions
and hydrogen pathways in Norway“
“At the niche level, niche-innovations may be defined as technologies that have less than 5 % presence in the analytical regime unit [35]. Their small presence results in the perception that they are not a threat to the regime, allowing developments to occur in a protected space. The growth of niche technologies can be accelerated through the process of linking up to the regime, also known as niche anchoring. This can be done by building more connections which create opportunities for the anchoring to become durable links with the regime [37]. Niche anchoring is more likely to happen if the niche-technology is perceived as symbiotic with the regime [37]”
I will add this to the relevant glossary…
marchudson.net 
Marc, I found the Does Time Matter article on hydrogen a good read and one I’ll have to read again to fully understand. Thank you for drawing it to my attention.
But does this energy transition really matter? Will the reduction in CO2 save our environment? The answer to both questions in my view is NO.
Environmental Degradation is without a doubt a product of GROWTH. The so-called “climate change”, is only one facet of our destruction of the environment. Many of the proposed solutions to “climate change”, will in the long term only make matters worse. YES, we’ll have less CO2, but more waste and less arable land.
Until we address GROWTH in all it’s forms Environmental Degradation will continue.
Absolutely agree. As late as the 1980s (before climate became a public issue) the focus was on species loss, habitat loss, pollution etc. Over time, all that has been reduced to “levels of carbon dioxide”. I am guilty of that myself, in my All Our Yesterdays project. IF (and it won’t happen) we invented magic technology (direct air capture hooked to fusion reactors, chimneys venting C02 into space) and stopped the rise in temperatures, and even brought C02 levels back to, say, 320, where they were when I was born), we would STILL have ALL the other problems, including nitrogen build-up etc etc.
And it is down to greed on the one hand, and poverty on the other… (but the people with the greed, imo, bare the greater historical and current political responsibility, since they’re the ones with the power and the weapons).
Marc, the political trick, as I think you well know, is to lock people into one stream, in this case (CO2). Plastic waste, tree felling, Job loses, Russian /American war don’t count, lt’s all about CO2.
Instead, let’s think about GROWTH, more people, more houses, more vehicles, the need for more food, water and the big one, ENERGY.
It all reminds me of the Pied Piper, just replace the flute and music, with greed and ignorance.