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UK Grid Operator Offers Households Money To Stop Using Appliances Amid Energy Crisis
UK Grid Operator Offers Households Money To Stop Using Appliances Amid Energy Crisis The National Grid warned Britons of winter power blackouts earlier this month if it can’t import enough natural gas and electricity from other parts of Europe. According to Daily Mail, the grid operator developed a new scheme to prevent the worst-case scenario of power […]
Europe’s Energy Crisis May Not End Until 2024
Europe’s Energy Crisis May Not End Until 2024 The EU gas storage units are nearly full giving some relief to fears of shortages Challenges remain for the continent’s energy security as winter arrives The challenges will persist into the winter of 2023-24. The worst energy security fears of spring and summer as regards the coming […]
Can Europe Avoid A Worst-Case Energy Scenario This Winter?
Can Europe Avoid A Worst-Case Energy Scenario This Winter? European countries have done most things they feasibly could to fill gas storage units. Overall in the EU, gas storage was 92.37% full as of October 17. Weather will be the determining factor in how fast gas in storage would be depleted, so Europe hopes for […]
Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left
Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left For all the drama surrounding Biden’s latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve fiasco and his admin’s ridiculous idea to “stimulate” US energy producers to pump more oil because, you see, Biden promises to buy oil at some unknown point in the future […]
Look Before you Eat
Look Before you Eat Preface. This post is a book review of Be Wilson’s Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. With likely world peak oil production in 2018, the price of food will rise relentlessly, since fossil fuels are used to fertilize, plant, harvest, distribute, package, cook, and refrigerate […]
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky”
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky” Preface. Thank goodness for world peak oil production in 2018. And peak coal in 2013. Since oil is that master resource that makes every product and activity possible, including oil itself and coal and natural gas, peak oil means peak everything. […]
Hydrogen hopium: green hydrogen from water
Hydrogen hopium: green hydrogen from water Additional steps not shown in above figure: getting water to the electrolyzer, compress or liquefy to -423 F before storage, the trucks to deliver H to stations costing $75 million each, since pipelines are super expensive and may leak, corrode, and explode (Zhao 2018) Preface. For all the reasons why […]
How the grid works, why a distributed grid won’t work
How the grid works, why a distributed grid won’t work Preface. This book is a good primer on how the grid works, worth the price to me just to understand Volt-Ampere Reactives (VARs). Renewables don’t provide them, but they’re essential for keeping the grid stable and not coming down. Angwin describes VARs as a bit […]
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough A Tesla charging station in Santa Monica. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It might feel like the easy solution — just replace your gas-guzzling SUV with an electric SUV, and if everyone does that, eventually we’ll solve climate change. You can see why California regulators […]
Fuel protests gripping more than 90 countries
Fuel protests gripping more than 90 countries IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGESImage caption, Protesters in Ecuador hit the streets over the rise in the cost of living High costs of living are driving people to protest in the streets against crippling prices. The BBC has mapped all reported demonstrations over fuel since January 2021, revealing a huge […]
The Road to Ruin — Part 3
The Road to Ruin — Part 3 False solutions — and a way out Our leadership class displays an extraordinary amount of stupidity and ignorance when it comes to solutions regarding the dire energy crisis we face in Europe — and soon around the world. What are the pitfalls caused by this lack of imagination […]
Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization
Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization A major shared goal of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) and Sustainability Central is reducing the odds that the “perfect storm” of environmental problems that threaten humanity will lead to a collapse of civilization. Those threats include climate disruption, loss of biodiversity (and thus ecosystem […]
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
Are Green Resource Wars Looming? The Burden of Massive EV Batteries Will Be Borne by People and Ecosystems Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric vehicles. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual […]
Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies
Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. The main oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, even though prices are high and threatening to go much higher. The solutions being proposed—electric cars and renewable energy technologies—are […]
