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China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February
China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February China has agreed with the United States to release crude from its SPR around the Lunar New Year holiday on February 1 The volume of the release may depend on actual crude prices China has agreed with the United States to release crude from […]
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann And why the climate change conversation isn’t helping A post-carbon world could be our opportunity to so better—and make the difficult transition much harder to swallow. That’s the message of Alice Friedemann on this week’s episode, author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. The […]
Germany To Become Net Power Importer For The First Time Since 2002
Germany To Become Net Power Importer For The First Time Since 2002 Europe’s largest economy, Germany, is expected to become a net importer of electricity in 2023 for the first time since 2002 due to retiring coal plants and the nuclear phase-out, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. Germany plans to switch off all its […]
Oil Producers Aren’t Keeping Up With Demand, Causing Prices to Stay High
Oil Producers Aren’t Keeping Up With Demand, Causing Prices to Stay High OPEC Plus, the United States and others have been slow to ramp up output, lagging production goals. An oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Lagging production of oil worldwide has been sending prices to seven-year highs and driving inflation.Credit…Brandon Thibodeaux for The New […]
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the harrowing rigors of reality, spiked with shocking losses, reckonings, and not a little retribution for the rogues and […]
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines The production of electric vehicles requires vast amounts of raw materials such as nickel: Around 32 kg of this metal are needed for the lithium batteries of a mid-range car. To secure access, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is encouraging global nickel mining and is considering investing in […]
European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies
European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies A flotilla of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US has finally arrived in Europe, increasing LNG imports on the fuel-starved continent to a two-year high. The fresh injection of natural gas is helping to offset declining Russian shipments. Prices of European natural […]
Millions of Americans live near abandoned, toxic oil and gas wells. What does the government plan to do about it?
Millions of Americans live near abandoned, toxic oil and gas wells. What does the government plan to do about it? Stephen Foulger, an environmental scientist with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, uses a Flir gas detection camera during an inspection of an oil pump site near Roosevelt on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Scott G Winterton, […]
Honest Government Ad: We Make Everything Good Sh!t
Honest Government Ad: We Make Everything Good Sh!t
Ukraine Pushes US Senators to Vote for Sanctions on German-Russian Pipeline
Ukraine Pushes US Senators to Vote for Sanctions on German-Russian Pipeline Officials say Nord Stream 2 is ‘an existential threat’ to Ukraine Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to get a vote this week on a bill to sanction Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline is a key way for Russia to ship energy to […]
Dutch Plan To Boost Gas Output At Earthquake-Prone Site Sparks Anger
Dutch Plan To Boost Gas Output At Earthquake-Prone Site Sparks Anger Residents in the Groningen area in the Netherlands have voiced their anger at a plan by the Dutch government to potentially double this year production from the Groningen gas field, which has been hit by earthquakes in the past. The Dutch government said on Thursday that […]
