Covid is dead. Energy is the new crisis.
Covid is dead. Energy is the new crisis. Markets are welcoming victory versus COVID, but the next crisis is upon us: Energy instability. The consequences could be dramatic.. “Trying to fire-up the induction hob by rubbing two sticks together proved a waste of time..” This morning: Markets are welcoming victory versus COVID, but the next crisis […]
Peak Gold
Peak Gold Preface. Both articles below offer the usual techno-optimism of more gold supplies from Man’s Cleverness: robots, AI, and Big and Smart Data Mining. But both are energy blind. Ores are decreasing in gold concentrations, and found in deeper and more remote places, requiring more energy to process. Where will this energy come from? […]
‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Admittedly Used by Governments as Tool of Population Control
‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Admittedly Used by Governments as Tool of Population Control Leaked details of UK government’s early pandemic response back up Dr. Malone’s assertions. SOPA Images via Getty Images Dr. Robert Malone’s assertions about “mass formation psychosis” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are underscored by the fact that authorities in the UK […]
Pakistan Textile Exports Hit by Gas Crunch, Industry Body Says
Pakistan Textile Exports Hit by Gas Crunch, Industry Body Says $250 million of textile exports were lost in Dec., group says Energy minister rejects claims low gas supplies are to blame Pakistan’s natural gas shortage is hurting its crucial textile exports, according to an industry trade organization, putting even more stress on the nation’s struggling […]
Speaking Freely
Speaking Freely Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade. People want to know why, for example, […]
World’s Largest Coal Exporter Warns Of Energy Crunch, Imposes Export Ban
World’s Largest Coal Exporter Warns Of Energy Crunch, Imposes Export Ban Chinese coal futures rose on Tuesday on Indonesia’s export ban over the weekend. Indonesia is the largest exporter of dirty fossil fuel, stoking fears of supply woes as the Northern Hemisphere winter is underway. Bloomberg Intelligence notes ever since China suspended coal imports from […]
OPEC’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee Is About To Begin: Here’s What To Expect
OPEC’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee Is About To Begin: Here’s What To Expect OPEC+ is expected to continue with its plan to increase its production quota 400k BPD The Omicron variant impact is expected to be mild and short-lived, according to the JTC findings The meeting is expected to be smooth, but the issue of […]
What Will Surprise Us in 2022
What Will Surprise Us in 2022 What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as illusion. Magical thinking isn’t optimism, it is folly. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but let’s look at what we already […]
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades On this Happy New Year’s Eve, I decided to post a short YouTube video update on my response to CPM Group’s stance on the Primary Silver Mining Industry’s falling ore grades. The CPM Group posted on Twitter that silver ore grades fall when […]
How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and grows fast! We eat it in a salad every night during the summer and when it starts to cool off, we save it! Every year […]
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge Week 19 – ESC Project – The Polyculture Project As part of our ESC project we are maintaining and developing community spaces. The centre of our town, Shipka, was fairly recently developed to include a main plaza with a stage where numerous events take place throughout the year, […]
Deja Vu? Texas NatGas Output Plunges Amid Cold Snap
Deja Vu? Texas NatGas Output Plunges Amid Cold Snap U.S. natural gas futures rose late in the session on new data that showed a plunge in pipeline gas flows in Texas, which indicates the state’s power grid could be susceptible to failures amid a cold snap. Front-month gas futures are up more than 3% to […]
What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation
What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation An extra-special cocktail of three powerful ingredients with no cherry on top awaits us in 2022. Super-inflated asset prices such as housing, stocks, and bonds; massive inflation; and central banks that have started to […]
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” When English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge published those words in 1798, there was no dense network of modern concrete and asphalt roads in Great Britain (or anywhere else) and there were no automobiles or trucks to ride […]
Texas Relies More on Wind Than Coal for Its Energy—But Is It Ready for Another Winter Storm?
Wind turbines in Papalote, Texas, on June 15, 2021. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Texas Relies More on Wind Than Coal for Its Energy—But Is It Ready for Another Winter Storm? Texas power regulators announced significant changes in December focused on shoring up problems with its electricity grid that narrowly escaped a catastrophic total blackout when Winter Storm […]
