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Venezuela Runs Out Of Electricity, Will Shut Down For A Week, El Nino Blamed
Venezuela Runs Out Of Electricity, Will Shut Down For A Week, El Nino Blamed When last we checked in on our favorite socialist paradise, Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro’s opponents “had gone crazy.” Or at least that’s how Maduro described the situation in a “thundering” speech to supporters at what he called an “anti-imperialist” rally in […]
Why the Grid is getting less reliable. House Hearing 2013.
Why the Grid is getting less reliable. House Hearing 2013. House 113-40. May 9, 2013. Grid reliability challenges in a shifting energy resource landscape. U.S. House of Representatives. 176 pages. Mr. Jonathan A. Lesser, President Continental Economics, Inc. [This is a really good introduction to how the grid works and the problems caused by intermittent wind […]
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored”
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored” The coming brave new world may also be a fragile one. As most of the Western world is pushed into abandoning cash and embracing a fully digital cashless grid, it is apparent how vulnerable populations will become in times of crisis. If the […]
Oil vs. Electricity: Argentina’s Impossible Emergency
Energy vs. Oil: Argentina’s Impossible Emergency Argentina faces twin energy crises. The government ended electricity subsidies, resulting in 500 percent price increases. At the same time, the government is subsidizing exported crude oil to stop protests. Photo via marketonemediagroup.com Argentina faces twin energy crises that literally and figuratively are screaming from the front of every newspaper in […]
Thousands still without power in Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia
Thousands still without power in Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia Some may have to wait until 11:30 p.m tonight before power is restored Power line technician Scott Leyte working overnight to try and restore power in New Glasgow. (Harold MacLeod/Nova Scotia Power) It’s a cold morning for thousands of people in Cape Breton and […]
‘We can’t close, people need bread’: Syrians tell RT how they cope with Damascus blackouts
‘We can’t close, people need bread’: Syrians tell RT how they cope with Damascus blackouts © Omar Sanadiki / Reuters In the grip of war, Syrians have been coming up with ways to power the country. Damascus has been rationing electricity, while residents must resort to additional tricks to make it last, as RT’s Murad […]
Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break
Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break Growing debt faster than your energy supply has hard limits Actuary Gail Tverberg explains the tight correlation between the rates of GDP growth and growth in energy supply. For decades, energy has been becoming more costly to obtain, and instead of accepting lower GDP growth, we have been […]
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared (NaturalNews) There is growing alarm among defense planners about the uptick in nuclear weapons development taking place among the various great powers, including the United States, Russia, India and China, as well as lesser powers like North Korea and […]
We are at Peak Oil now; we need very low-cost energy to fix it
We are at Peak Oil now; we need very low-cost energy to fix it This past week, I gave a presentation to a group interested in a particular type of renewable energy–solar energy that is deployed in space, so it would provide electricity 24 hours per day. Their question was: how low does the production cost […]
Magical mathematics
Magical mathematics Recently I got into a spot of bother on Twitter (it’s easily done) after I wrote an essay criticising an astonishingly bad newspaper article by one Leigh Phillips. The thing is, I hadn’t read his book and, silly me, I didn’t realise that you’re not supposed to criticise people’s newspaper articles until you’ve read their books. Well, […]
Ted Koppel It’s Not A Matter Of If But When The Power Goes Out…
Ted Koppel It’s Not A Matter Of If But When The Power Goes Out…
For Storing Electricity, Utilities Are Turning to Pumped Hydro
For Storing Electricity, Utilities Are Turning to Pumped Hydro High-tech batteries may be garnering the headlines. But utilities from Spain to China are increasingly relying on pumped storage hydroelectricity – first used in the 1890s – to overcome the intermittent nature of wind and solar power. In the past decade, wind energy production has soared in […]
Our Electricity Problem: Getting the Diagnosis Correct
Our Electricity Problem: Getting the Diagnosis Correct What is really wrong with our energy system, particularly as it relates to electricity and natural gas? Are there any mitigations available? I have been asked to give a talk at an Electricity/Natural Gas conference that includes both producers and industrial users of electricity and natural gas. In this […]
Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down
Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down What would you do if the power grid went down and never came back up? One of these days, and it could be a lot sooner than most people think, we will all wake up in […]
Preparedness Tip: Cooking Without Power, Part 1
Preparedness Tip: Cooking Without Power, Part 1 Thanks to a reliable power grid Americans aren’t used to the “lights going out” often, but when they do many are surprised to also lose their cooking means—stovetop elements, ovens, microwaves, toasters, and coffeemakers. Everything Americans use on a daily basis for food preparation needs a plug. Even […]
