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EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy’s Role In Climate Policy
EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy’s Role In Climate Policy The EU is in the process of expanding its renewable energy targets to reduce CO2 emissions. Countries are divided over whether nuclear energy should be considered a part of renewable energy targets. France leads the campaign to recognize nuclear energy as a CO2-free contributor, while […]
Coronal Hole ’30 Times Earth’s Size’ Hurls Solar Plasma Towards Earth
Coronal Hole ’30 Times Earth’s Size’ Hurls Solar Plasma Towards Earth NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released a photo showing a massive coronal hole forming in the sun’s atmosphere, ejecting a stream of fast-moving solar winds toward Earth. “The current coronal hole, the big one right now, is about 300,000 to 400,000 kilometers across,” Alex Young, […]
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’ As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we […]
Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar
Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar Jacob Lawrence Struggle: From the History of the American People, Panel 8 1954Eurasia’s geo-economic integration took a great leap forward as a result of the Iranian–Saudi rapprochement, which unlocks the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) trade potential with Russia and China. Its wealthy members can now tap into two series of […]
Peak-Oil Fears Cast Shadow Over US Supply Outlook as Costs Climb
Peak-Oil Fears Cast Shadow Over US Supply Outlook as Costs Climb (Bloomberg) — The specter of peak oil that haunted global energy markets during the first decade of the 21st century is once again rearing its head. Major US oil producers are warning that production from one of the fastest growing sources of supply appears […]
New EIA Report Reveals Massive Downward Reductions In US Shale Oil Output
New EIA Report Reveals Massive Downward Reductions In US Shale Oil Output Readers will recall that, for the last several months, I have noted that US oil production per the EIA’s weekly Petroleum Status Report was inconsistent with the data from the EIA’s monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) The graph below shows that state of play as of last […]
Peak Oil Gets Admitted?
Peak Oil Gets Admitted? Denial is like a glacier. At first sight, and to everyone standing on it, it looks rock solid. Then cracks start to develop, and before you know it, a huge chunk breaks off and drifts away — never to be seen again. This is what’s happening to peak oil right in […]
Here We Go Again
Here We Go Again “I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.” – Evan Spiegel For those that have been in and around alternative energy research for the better part of long careers, nothing makes the eyes roll harder than loud proclamations of breakthrough advances in battery technology. Consider […]
The Weakening Electric Grid: Less Reliable, More Fragile
The Weakening Electric Grid: Less Reliable, More Fragile California Independent System Operator announced a statewide electricity Flex Alert urging conservation to avoid blackouts in El Segundo, Calif., on Aug. 31, 2022. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) As more and more irritated customers become certain that power shortages and blackouts have become more […]
The End of the Oil Age Gets Postponed Again. Really?
The End of the Oil Age Gets Postponed Again. Really? Photo by Diyar Al Maamouri on Unsplash It looks like we have to wait a little more to see the end of the oil age. Our desire to burn more and more stuff knows no limits — at least not when talking about the foreseeable future. Statements like “oil will […]
America’s Largest Power Grid Faces Worsening Reliability Risks
America’s Largest Power Grid Faces Worsening Reliability Risks A new report reveals the US’ largest power grid is shuttering power generation units faster than new supply can be brought online, threatening electric reliability in 13 states that stretch from Illinois to New Jersey with over 65 million customers. PJM Interconnection published a new study Friday that examines […]
#246: The Surplus Energy Economy, part 1
#246: The Surplus Energy Economy, part 1 FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES Introduction We have reached a turning-point at which economics and the economy have parted company. Orthodox economics continues to promise growth in perpetuity, but the economy itself is going in the opposite direction. The explanation for this is simple. Conventional economics assumes that the economy is […]
Europe Turned an Energy Crisis Into a Green Energy Sprint
Europe Turned an Energy Crisis Into a Green Energy Sprint Credit…Ibrahim Rayintakath This was supposed to be a winter of energy crisis in Europe. Beginning last spring, not long after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fear of gas shortages spread across the continent, along with fears of what might follow. The coming winter crunch […]
A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it
A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it Image via Shutterstock. In 2022, I authored two articles expressing doubts about society’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable solar and wind power. In this final article in the series, I’ll explain why my conclusions are based on experience as well as analysis. My […]
