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A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle
A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle We all want solutions to the world’s many crises but do we understand the underlying problems? Everything in nature, including human society, relies on energy for production, consumption, recycling, and sustainability. Therefore, to understand things, we must first examine how energy is turned into work and […]
“The Economics Just Don’t Work”: Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs
“The Economics Just Don’t Work”: Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs For the last year, we’ve been writing extensively about how high costs and low demand have made EVs uneconomical – and, as a result, unpopular to produce – for the auto industry. It turns out unionized employees extorting you on labor […]
Future Gas Strategy is a betrayal of promised Climate and Environmental Policies
Future Gas Strategy is a betrayal of promised Climate and Environmental Policies Climate scientists reveal data that earth’s heating is accelerating, heat extremes are increasing and 1.5C has been breached faster than forecast. We are failing to treat climate change as the single greatest threat to humanity. At the same time our government has announced […]
Musings on the Nature of Technology
Musings on the Nature of Technology A picture taken during the trip (own photo) Recently I have been on a four-day hiking trip, completing another 80 km (~50 mile) stretch of the 1171 km National Blue Trail running across my tiny country. This gave me plenty of time to tune into and ponder on the many […]
Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers
Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers Powerful storms tore through eastern Texas on Thursday evening, decimating transmission towers and plunging over a million residents into darkness. “Severe thunderstorms moving across the Houston metro area have a history of producing damaging winds! This destructive storm will contain wind gusts to 80 MPH! A […]
Unsold Tesla’s Pile Up in Mall Parking Lots, Big Discounts Likely
Unsold Tesla’s Pile Up in Mall Parking Lots, Big Discounts Likely Tesla is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles. This helps explain the mass layoffs. Tesla Cranking Out Cars, But to Where? Please consider Tesla’s Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to […]
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids Not to be left behind by the rest of the industry, Volkswagen is the latest auto manufacturer to walk back its plans to go all-electric. The move should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers, as we have been writing non-stop […]
Electric Vehicle Subsidies as Complex and Costly as Ever
Electric Vehicle Subsidies as Complex and Costly as Ever Electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most subsidized product in America. Federal taxpayers shell out $7,500 every time a new eligible electric vehicle is purchased (usually by wealthy buyers). State and local taxpayers chip in an additional $1,500 for each EV purchase. Then, there’s the tens of billions of dollars “invested” by […]
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of risk leading us to a global polycrisis. Though he finds no easy answers, he concludes that humanity’s collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms […]
‘Extreme’ solar storm impacts NZ, power grid emergency declared
‘Extreme’ solar storm impacts NZ, power grid emergency declared NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light on May 2. (Source: NASA) Transpower has issued a precautionary grid emergency notice as the largest solar storm in two decades to affect Earth hits New Zealand this weekend. Sixteen electricity […]
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water The commonwealth is home to the data center capital of the world. Can it handle AI’s thirst? Google Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post does, too. In massive buildings erected from miles of concrete, stacked servers […]
Links of the Month: May 2024
Links of the Month: May 2024 Public Service Announcement: If reading my links of the month is unbearably depressing for you, just skip down to the very bottom of this post and at least read Lyz Lenz’s little story on Mothering. Everything else here will probably be the same next month, anyway. cartoon by Michael Leunig No, […]
Diesel takes another hit and may be driving down broader oil market
Diesel takes another hit and may be driving down broader oil market One analyst sees renewable diesel as beginning to have a major impact on world oil markets Tne benchmark diesel price dropped for the fifth straight week. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth […]
Transitioning Fleet Trucks to Electric Raises Costs by up to 114 Percent, Report Warns
Transitioning Fleet Trucks to Electric Raises Costs by up to 114 Percent, Report Warns Mandating EV trucks in today’s market leads to even ‘more supply chain disruptions,’ said an industry expert. Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from […]
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden’s Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden’s Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024 “It’s death by 1,000 cuts. It’s the worst presidency with regard to energy policy I’ve ever seen — and I’ve been involved in energy for 40 years, my entire career.” Those were the words of Steve Pruett, chief executive of Elevation Resources, to Financial […]
