Tag: Energy

Loren Steffy, UH Energy Scholar Silence can be deadly. That’s the key lesson from a new paper examining communications failures ...

Texas Grid Operator Sued By 131 Insurers, Now Facing ‘Dozens’ Of Lawsuits Over Blackout

Eleven months after the near-meltdown of the Texas electric grid, the state’s grid operator, ERCOT, is facing “dozens” of lawsuits ...

Biden’s SPR Release Shows Another Failure Of Interventionist Energy Policy

On November 23, 2021, as the price for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude hit $78.50 per barrel, U.S. President Joe ...

SPR Release Had A Minimal Market Impact—But Might Be Repeated

Oil price stability is in the eye of the beholder, but without question, after last year’s collapse, prices have been ...

EU Nuclear Waste Organizations Conclude Deep Borehole Disposal Great Option For Nuclear Waste

Deep Isolation recently completed two studies, one by the Slovenia Radioactive Waste Management Organisation (ARAO) and one by Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning, showing ...

Ford’s Amped-Up Electric Vehicle Strategy Boosts Shares, Tops GM’s Market Cap

Ford Motor Co.’s plans to accelerate production and sales of battery-powered crossovers and pickups are turbocharging the company’s shares this ...

Ford Blows Past $100 Billion Market Valuation As Shares Surge Thanks To Hot Electric Vehicle Plans

ToplineShares of Ford continued to move higher on Thursday—with the legacy automaker’s market value surpassing $100 billion for the first ...

Here Comes The Sun: How Software Makes Solar Energy More Profitable

The first wave of solar innovation was focused on getting costs down. Now, the industry must look to software and ...

China And Russia Make Critical Mineral Grabs in Africa While the U.S. Snoozes

Countries across the globe are pursuing zero-emission goals, which have created a bottleneck of critical rare earth elements (REE) such ...

Gaussin’s Hydrogen And Electric Transport For Cargo At Ports, Logistics Centers And Airports

Mobile hydrogen technology is gradually stepping on the heels of not only internal combustion engines but also its electric battery ...

Leading Experts Weigh In On Growing Canada’s Economy In 2022

Last year, strong vaccination uptake and the reopening of the economy helped Canada rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic slowdown. In ...

Energy Realism Vs. The Energy Transition Narrative – Which Will Prevail In 2022?

Does recent reporting at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, among other major media outlets, indicate that, after 2021’s huge ...

Which Is More Important To Biofuels – The Soil Or The Crop?

As an Earth scientist, I was pleased to see it was the soil. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Farmers have ...

The U.S. Is Losing The Lithium Industry To China

In the early days of the oil industry, the U.S. quickly established dominance as the world’s most important producer and ...

The Oil Market Is Even Tighter Than The Positive Data Suggests

Oil inventory statistics increasingly suggest a tight oil market, but one nuance related to how oil in infrastructure is stored ...

Why Disasters Have Declined

Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change ...

With New German Gigafactory, Tesla Looks To Build On Big Lead In Surging European EV Sales

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is occurring apace; sales in Europe are accelerating thanks to early adopter enthusiasm and ...

‘Don’t Look Up’ Fails As A Social Commentary On Climate Change

I was warned by some current and former colleagues in the oil and gas industry last week that the new ...

Drivers Should Prepare For Higher Prices At The Pump In 2022