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Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC
Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC New weight allowance incentive will help spur ‘green’ fleets, but diesel is likely to stick around for a decade. BC is adding new incentives to shift to a new generation of rigs like this Daimler electric fuel cell prototype. Photo: Daimler. Electric heavy-duty vehicles are […]
ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to
ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to A new study reveals how the oil company used “cutting-edge propaganda” to focus on fossil fuel consumption. Andrii Zorii To understand why ExxonMobil has been so effective at shaping the US narrative about climate change in the US for some 40 […]
Canadian Banks Have an Outsized Impact on Global Fossil Fuel Financing
Canadian Banks Have an Outsized Impact on Global Fossil Fuel Financing We pledged to reduce emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, but will financial institutions undermine this goal? The Banking on a Better Future movement launched April 1. Photo by Joshua Best. When 18-year-old climate activist Naisha Khan wants to start a conversation about how […]
Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit
Struggling to Make a Profit, Fracking Investors are Searching for the Exit Banks and investors have given up on the U.S. fracking industry, which is bad news for current investors who waited too long to get out. Derricks Credit: Pay No Mind (CC BY-SA 2.0) and Going out of business sign Credit: Michael Steeber (CC BY-SA 2.0) Photos adapted by: Justin Mikulka […]
U.S. Energy Production Saw Steepest Drop On Record In 2020
U.S. Energy Production Saw Steepest Drop On Record In 2020 Due to economic responses to the pandemic, U.S. energy production dropped by 5 percent last year, marking the steepest annual decline on record, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Thursday. Last year, energy production in the United States fell to just below 96 quadrillion British […]
Clean energy minerals shortage: Who knew it could happen?
Clean energy minerals shortage: Who knew it could happen? The race for so-called green energy has spawned another race, one for the minerals needed to make the devices such as solar panels and batteries that produce, store and transmit that energy. A hitherto largely unchallenged economic idea—that we will always have supplies of everything we […]
Nearly 2,000 Gas Stations Out Of Fuel As Panic-Hoarding Hammers Southeast
Nearly 2,000 Gas Stations Out Of Fuel As Panic-Hoarding Hammers Southeast Gas stations from Florida to Virginia ran dry, and prices at the pump skyrocketed late Tuesday, as the hack attack on the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline extends into the fifth day. On Tuesday evening, 17 states and Washington, DC declared emergency declarations to address fuel shortages. […]
Extending The European Green Deal Into Eurasia
Extending The European Green Deal Into Eurasia The European Green Deal should be extended to include the Eurasian Economic Union. In June, the European Commission will present a package of bills detailing the European Green Deal, a strategy that aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% to 1990 levels by 2030, improve energy efficiency by 32.5%, and […]
Compressed air energy storage (CAES)
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) Figure 1. Potential salt dome locations for CAES facilities are mainly along the Gulf coast Preface. Besides pumped hydro storage (PHS), which provides 99% of energy storage today, CAES is the only other commercially proven energy storage technology that can provide large-scale (over 100 MW) energy storage. But there are just two […]
BP peak oil (UK decline, asset sales and decommissioning Part 1)
BP peak oil (UK decline, asset sales and decommissioning Part 1) West of the Shetland Islands, the battle against oil decline is over for BP. SPGlobal reports: BP halts production at oldest West of Shetland oil facility Foinaven on asset decline 15 Apr 2021 London — BP has halted production at its oldest West of […]
Big Oil Is In Desperate Need Of New Discoveries
Big Oil Is In Desperate Need Of New Discoveries The year 2020 was a watershed moment for the fossil fuel sector. Faced with a global pandemic, severe demand shocks and a shift towards renewable energy, experts warned that nearly $900 billion worth of reserves–or about one-third of the value of big oil and gas companies–were […]
“Gas Run Has Begun” – Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline
“Gas Run Has Begun” – Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline Gas shortages are being reported in the Southeast of the US amid the recent cybersecurity attack that temporarily shut down one of the largest pipelines in the US. Colonial Pipeline Co. Chief Executive Officer Joseph Blount said the company was in the process of restoring its […]
Heinberg on what to do at home
Heinberg on what to do at home Preface. A quick summary: Best investment: insulate exterior walls, ceiling, and floors for energy savings. Other good changes were to plant a garden and fruit-and-nut orchard, and buy solar hot water heater, solar food dryer, solar cooker, chickens, energy-efficient appliances Lessons learned: It is expensive, especially energy storage. […]
