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09.25.20- Working prototype generates electricity from moving vehicles
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09.24.20- Everything Points To More Natural Gas Demand This Decade
While gas-fired power generation and the natural gas value chain do emit greenhouse gases, natural gas burns cleaner than other fossil fuels, most notably coal, and can play a major role in replacing coal-fired power generation, immediately contributing to lower emissions from the electricity sector. Read More |  |
09.23.20- Skeleton and KIT promise graphene SuperBattery with 15-second charging
So what is it? Well, it appears it's a hybrid pack combining regular lithium-ion cells and Skeleton's own ultracapacitor cells, which feature a curved graphene construction, working in tandem, each part playing to its strengths. Read More |  |
09.22.20- Nat Gas Plummets 10%, Slides Under $2 In Biggest One-Day Drop In 20 Months
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09.21.20- Why Trump Will Win
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09.19.20- The Holy Grail of Endless Energy: Harvesting Blackholes
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09.18.20- Twilight in the Desert for
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09.17.20- RMIT's new cost-effective, carbon-capturing poop-to-hydrogen reactor
In doing so, it could not only generate clean power from a virtually limitless human waste resource, it could also lead to a completely emissions-neutral wastewater sector. If hydrogen is to play a serious part in the future green energy economy, production methods like this could kill multiple birds with one stone. Read More |  |
09.16.20- Why GM’s Wireless Battery Could Be A Gamechanger
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09.15.20- Solar Windows Will Soon Become A Commercial Reality
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09.14 20- Funny how global warming hovers the globe - but only lands in California
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09.12.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Future of the United States of America: Light after Darkness I cannot regard events in the US as spontaneous expressions of anger and dissatisfaction regarding present social conditions. Disorderly events of this duration and magnitude cannot possibly be - in my opinion - spontaneous expressions of popular discontent. Read More |  |
09.11.20- Ditching the diesel:
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09.10.20- Oil’s Luck Runs Out
Yet prices have remained low throughout the summer despite a modest improvement. This week, the first week after the end of driving season, prices started with a loss, with WTI falling below $40 a barrel. The trend is likely to continue as pessimism prevails. Is that justified? Read More |  |
09.09.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Here Comes The Next Round Of Tyranny... Big Pharma
“The unsustainable will not be sustained, except through ever-increasing force and fraud.” – “Jesse,” Jesse’s Cafe Americain Here come the greed-head Vax’ers. We know after many decades that the flu vaccine has limited – if not unverifiable – efficacy. But Big Pharma will use its corruption and political muscle in an attempt to force the public to accept a hastily devised COVID “vaccine”. Read More |  |
09.08.20- The One Big Problem
Near, because green hydrogen comes at a cost. Several U.S. utilities have revealed big plans for green hydrogen, according to a Wall Street Journal report. NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy are among these, and they plan to invest in the production of hydrogen from solar and wind electricity even though it is one of the more expensive ways to produce hydrogen, to be in turn used to produce electricity. Read More |  |
09.07.20- And Now for Something Entirely Different: The End of Sports
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09.05.20- WTI Drops Below $40 Amid Stock Market Rout
U.S. oil futures were already at their lowest point since July on Wednesday. At 11:00 am EDT, the WTI spot price was $40.26 (-2.68%), nearly $3 under last week’s level. Brent crude was trading $43.04 (-2.34%), roughly $2 per barrel less than last week. Read More |  |
09.04.20- What Are Anti-Solar Panels?
This new tech is called the anti-solar panel, and it doesn't absorb heat from the sun to turn into electricity. Instead, these panels capture the heat that the earth radiates into the atmosphere at night as it cools off and radiates it out in turn. This radiated heat is then used to produce electricity with a thermoelectric generator. Read More |  |
09.03.20- 3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Energy Industry
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09.02.20- Nuclear Power Could Win Big In U.S. Elections
For nearly a half century, the Democratic Party’s election year party platform has excluded nuclear energy, but that’s not the case this year. The newly-released party platform says It favors a “technology-neutral” approach that includes all zero-carbon technologies, including hydroelectric power, geothermal, existing and advanced nuclear, and carbon capture and storage. Read More |  |
09.01.20- What The UAE-Israel Deal Really Means For The Middle East
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08.31.20- Fossil Fuels Are Here To Stay
Titled Key World Energy Statistics 2020, the report provides an in-depth look at energy production and consumption trends spanning a period between the early 1970s and 2018. And the data shows that we are still heavily reliant on oil and gas, despite all the progress renewables have made. In fact, the portion of oil and gas in the world’s energy mix is so massive it is doubtful we will ever be fossil fuel-free. Read More |  |
08.29.20- "Return Of The Dust Bowl? The "Megadrought" In The Southwest Is Really Starting To Escalate
In a previous article, I discussed the extreme heat that we have been seeing in the region lately. Phoenix has never had more days in a year when the high temperature has hit at least 115 degrees, and other southwestern cities have been smashing records as well. At the same time, precipitation levels have been very low, and the combination of these two factors is starting to cause some major problems. Read More |  |
08.28.20- The U.S. Energy Storage Boom
America has the potential to see 100 gigawatts (GW) of new energy storage deployed by 2030, the U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA) said in a new white paper this month. Read More |  |
08.27.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites
Over the years, this growing naïveté and obliviousness has been a source of amusement and head-shaking incredulity. However, these traits have now become so dominant among an ever-growing segment of the upper classes within American society that the future of this nation as a prosperous and freedom loving country is in serious jeopardy. Read More |  |
08.26.20- Building The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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08.25.20- Three Reasons Why Oil Prices Won’t Rally Anytime Soon
And now the pendulum has swung to the opposite end and oil markets have to climb a new wall of worry. Read More |  |
08.24.20- What Will It Take For Americans To Switch To EVs?
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08.22.20- Oil Nosedives On Poor Economic Data
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08.21.20- Trump Touts "Making Very Big Oil Deals" As Condition For Rapid Troop
But curiously, like in neighboring Syria, he tied concluding the US mission there directly to the possibility of oil and resource benefits for American companies: Read More |  |
08.20.20- China Is The Biggest Winner Of The U.S. Renewables Boom
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08.19.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Welcome To The Global Gulag...
When this whole bizarre virus plandemic, or scamdemic, started to gather momentum I instinctively knew that something wasn’t right, that the official explanations didn’t add up, and that society at large was “being played” by those in power with an agenda. To anyone with even a modicum of real intelligence, the whole thing stinks of an elaborate plot. Read More |  |
08.18.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: It’s Time for America’s Hard Men... America’s Very Survival Is At Risk
The days grow darker with each passing minute, as we hear black nationalist anti-white racists screaming, “We’re coming for everything You took from Us”, as if they have ever really done an honest day’s work themselves or actually had anybody take anything from them. Nine times out of ten, these radicals are the criminals responsible for the massive crime sprees and looting we currently see all across the nation. Read More |  |
08.17.20- Natural Gas Prices Soar As Heat Wave Hits Large Parts Of U.S.
Natural gas prices hit $2.367 by 2:26 pm EDT, an increase of 8.48% or $0.185, even as the EIA’s weekly storage report a day earlier showed a small increase of 58 Bcf in working gas in storage. The market had anticipated a larger build. Read More |  |
08.15.20- Happy Armadillo Day
Today, August 15th, is Armadillo Day. Armadillo Day is not yet a widely known holiday (the Banks are still open), and is only celebrated in Texas.Read More |  |
08.14.20- IEA Sees 2020 Oil Demand
“Global oil demand is expected to be 91.9 mb/d in 2020, down 8.1 mb/d y-o-y. In this Report, we reduce our 2020 forecast by 140 kb/d, the first downgrade in several months, reflecting the stalling of mobility as the number of Covid-19 cases remains high, and weakness in the aviation sector,” the IEA said. Read More |  |
08.13.20- Upcycling technique turns plastic bottles into supercapacitor material
Supercapacitors hold incredible potential when it comes to energy storage, with an ability to charge and discharge almost instantly being one of their major selling points. Were key components for these next-generation devices to come from sustainable sources that would only add to the appeal, and scientists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) are offering up this possibility in the form of a nanomaterial made from upcycled plastic waste. Read More |  |
08.12.20- Smart bricks store energy in the walls themselves
A brick wall doesn’t exactly do much – sure it holds up the roof and keeps the cold out, but maybe the bricks could pull their weight a bit more. That was the goal for a team of scientists at Washington University in St Louis, who wanted to test whether bricks could be used to store electricity. Read More |  |
08.11.20- WTF is Zero Point Energy and How Could it Change the World?
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08.10.20- Going Green Is Easier Done
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08.08.20- New catalyst rearranges carbon dioxide and water into ethanol fuel
The catalyst is made of atomically dispersed copper on a carbon-powder support, and acts as an electrocatalyst, sitting in a low voltage electric field as water and carbon dioxide are passed over it. The reaction breaks down these molecules, then selectively rearranges them into ethanol with an electrocatalytic selectivity, or "Faradaic efficiency" higher than 90%. The team says this is "much higher than any other reported process." Read More |  |
08.07.20- Can Renewables Fully Sustain Our Current Way Of Life?
Michael Shellenberger, Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” wrote this commentary in an article in Forbes. According to Shellenberger, president at Environmental Progress and an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), renewables are simply incapable of sustaining our current way of life. Read More |  |
08.06.20- Energy Giants Race For 'Green Hydrogen' Market Share
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08.05.20- The truth about “clean” electric vehicles: Here’s what tech giants like Tesla are not telling you
Indeed, several governments and international agencies are calling for efforts to reduce CO2 emissions within the next three decades, encapsulated in the mantra “net zero by 2050.” Read More |  |
08.04.20- Why Natural Gas Prices Just Exploded
Natural gas prices have been trading under $2.50 since December on weak demand and oversupply. Other bullish factors on Monday highlight the increased LNG/feedgas export figures provided over the weekend, with Genscape estimating a 740 MMcf/d increase on Saturday. Read More |  |
08.03.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: A Disturbing GPS Hack...
As the article notes, Garmin, and major GPS firm, was hacked and their system actually went down (and I’m citing the entire article, composed by CNN business reporter Oliver Effron): Read More |  |
08.01.20- What’s Holding Geothermal Energy Back?
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07.31.20- The Calm Before
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07.30.20- America’s Big Plan To Bring Nuclear Energy To Space
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07.29.20- Oil Markets Face New Glut As OPEC Prepares To Open The Taps
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07.28.20- How The Fed Is Artificially
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07.25.20- Russian Gas Giant Gazprom To Start Producing Clean Hydrogen
The plan sees Gazprom building and beginning to test a methane-hydrogen-powered turbine next year, and until 2024 it will also study different applications of hydrogen as a fuel, both in things such as gas boilers and gas turbines, and as fuel for vehicles. Read More |  |
07.24.20- It's All Downhill from Here: U.S. Oil Production Peak Already In The Rear-view Mirror
It’s a shame that the drive for U.S Energy Independence only lasted for about a year. Even worse, U.S. Shale Oil Industry responsible for the country’s energy independence is now in serious trouble as the companies have cut drilling by 75% while they are drowning in debt up to the eyeballs. This is a “No-Win” scenario. So, watch over the next 3-6 months as the mighty U.S. Shale Industry begins to implode in glorious 3D-Technicolor. Read More |  |
07.23.20- Soft, solid battery electrolyte could see EVs go great distances
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07.22.20- Surge In Gold Prices Could Be Bad News For Oil
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07.21.20- Infinite Carbon-Free Energy Is Closer Than Ever
Nuclear fusion, if and when it becomes a reality, will change the energy industry, and the world, as we know it. It is, essentially, the key to limitless, renewable, and carbon-free energy. And not only is it many times more powerful than nuclear fission. it does not require any radioactive materials, and therefore does not produce any radioactive nuclear waste. And, there is no risk of the nuclear meltdowns that have become synonymous with nuclear energy thanks to the tragedies at Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island. Read More |  |
07.20.20- Small Lab Makes Big Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Tech
Middlesex, NJ-based Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc., known as LPPFusion, may soon be leading the way in transitioning over to nuclear fusion through DPF. Read More |  |
07.18.20- Weekend Rant: The Next Phase of the GMO Discussion
I won’t go into the latest gimick all over again. Rather, there’s something else coming down the pike that M.W. spotted and shared(and again, thank you!), and it’s such a whopper doozie I have to pass it along. That something is “gene drive organisms”, and if that sounds to you a little “scary and creepy”, it’s because it’s far worse than that: Read More |  |
07.17.20- Is This The Best Way To Produce Cheap Hydrogen?
Hydrogen has already established itself as an inseparable part of the energy world of tomorrow when emissions will, hopefully, be minimal of not completely absent. Yet not all hydrogen is created equal: most of the hydrogen produced in the world today—as much as 95 percent—is produced from natural gas, which compromises its “clean” credentials. The rest is produced through electrolysis, using solar and wind power. Read More |  |
07.16.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: This Is A Financial Extinction Event
Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant 65 million year ago--until the meteor struck, creating a global "nuclear winter" that darkened the atmosphere for months, killing off most of the food chain that the dinosaurs depended on. (See chart below.) Read More |  |
07.15.20- There Are Nationwide Shortages Of Aluminum Cans, Soda, Flour, Canned Soup, Pasta And Rice
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07.14.20- Why The Hydrogen Boom Is Good News For Natural Gas
The European Union has set out its new hydrogen strategy as part of its goal to achieve carbon neutrality for all its industries by 2050. Read More |  |
07.13.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: How the Left Uses "Public Health Crises" to Get What It Wants
After insisting for weeks that leaving one’s home or gathering in groups of any size was “irresponsible” and a “slap in the face” to medical professionals, doctors and nurses completely changed their minds. The prohibitionist view toward gatherings was specifically applied to those who protested the stay-at-home orders. “Shame on you!” was the general attitude of many medical professionals who opposed the protests. “How dare you not follow the edicts of science!” But, when protests and riots broke out in the wake of George Floyd’s apparent murder by Minneapolis police officers, many doctors, nurses, pundits, and activists completely changed their tune. These protests, the doctors and nurses assured us, were perfectly fine. Read More |  |
07.11.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: "I Could Live With That": How The CIA Made Afghanistan Safe For The Opium Trade
– Stansfield Turner, Jimmy Carter’s CIA director, on the extreme level of civilian casualties in the CIA’s covert war in Afghanistan. The first indelible image of the war in Afghanistan for many Americans was probably that of CBS anchorman Dan Rather, wrapped in the voluminous drapery of a mujahedin fighter, looking like a healthy relative of Lawrence of Arabia (albeit with hair that seemed freshly blow-dried, as some viewers were quick to point out). From his secret mountainside “somewhere in the Hindu Kush,” Rather unloaded on his audience a barrowload of nonsense about the conflict. Read More |  |
07.10.20- Japanese Firm Develops Battery That’s 90% Cheaper Than Lithium-Ion
The battery, which would replace the intricate battery parts such as metal-lined electrodes and liquid electrolytes with a resin material, would be more like mass producing steel instead of the complex production process that lithium-ion batteries undergo today. Read More |  |
07.09.20- Big Oil Should Focus On The World’s Cleanest Energy Source
Geothermal energy is, simply put, the heat from the Earth’s mantle brought to the surface to use for heating and, more importantly, electricity generation. Iceland is the usual example of successfully harnessing geothermal energy. Iceland, however, is not the only place where geothermal can be tapped. In fact, it’s everywhere. You just need to know exactly where and how to drill for it. Read More |  |
07.08.20- Why The Bakken May Not Come Back
The 570,000-barrel-per-day oil pipeline carries Bakken oil to the Midwest. On Monday, a federal judge ordered the pipeline to shut down within 30 days after vacating authorization for the project. Energy Transfer immediately appealed for a “provisional stay,” but U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg shot down that request. Read More |  |
07.07.20- Water-filled windows could both heat and cool buildings
There are two main problems with conventional windows. For one thing, most of them allow heat to escape during cold weather, causing the building's furnace to run more frequently. For another, they allow sunlight to stream in during hot weather, creating heat that causes the air conditioning to kick in. Read More |  |
07.06.20- Battery Metal Sector Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Lead-Acid Versus Lithium-Ion In a previous article — Lead-Acid Batteries Are On A Path To Extinction — I speculated that falling costs and better performance from lithium-ion batteries posed an existential threat to the 160-year reign of the lead-acid battery. Read More |  |
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07.03.20- Satellite Data Exposes A Massive Methane Problem
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07.02.20- Eco-Genocide and the Genetically Engineered Mosquito Army
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06.30.20- Imploding Car Sales Weigh On
For automakers burnishing their green credentials there is a positive spin: Electric vehicle sales – or better still – penetration rates. In Western Europe, according to Schmidt, a market researcher, for the first five months of 2020, 300,000 EVs (including plugin-hybrids) were sold, giving battery-powered cars a 8.3% penetration rate (in Norway it’s 69%). Read More |  |
06.29.20- Russia Benefiting from Oil Market Turmoil
Demand for Russian Urals grade oil is so strong that is has been trading at a pretty steep premium to Brent Crude this month. Southfront references this report from Argus research.
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06.27.20- Oil Prices Fall Back Below $40 On New COVID Fears
Oil prices have fallen below $40 as the U.S. sees a record spike in COVID-19 cases and fears of demand weakness increase. Read More |  |
06.26.20- How Viable Are Net Zero Strategies For Energy Companies?
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06.25.20- Building Puerto Rican Resiliency with LPG-Fueled Engines
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06.24.20- MHPS Secures First Order for Hydrogen-Capable J-Series Gas Turbines
MHPS’s Lake Mary, Florida–based subsidiary MHPS Americas (MHPSA) on March 10 said that the contract for two M501JAC power trains are the first in the industry “specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow.” Read More |  |
06.23.20- Is This The Future Of Energy Storage?
According to the team of scientists, "This new strategy ensures high performance for lithium-oxygen batteries, acclaimed as a next-generation energy storage technology." Read More |  |
06.22.20- California Fires: PG&E Takes the Fall
PG&E Pleads Guilty To 84 Counts Of Manslaughter Tied To Deadliest Wildfire In California History As the article indicates, the New York Times reported that PG&E has pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of 84 people during the Paradise fire. Read More |  |
06.20.20- A Perfectly Sustainable World
You can pretty much reduce all of the big problems and predicaments facing the human race down to resources. The over-indebted global economy? We’ve been living beyond the means of our current resources, stealing prosperity from the future to fund today’s demands and desires. Society’s addiction to fossil fuel? Nothing will come close in our lifetime to replacing the energy we get from hydrocarbons. And as they deplete further over the coming two decades, higher prices, supply shortages and wars will result. Read More |  |
06.19.20- Update on the WTF Collapse of Demand for Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Diesel
Demand for gasoline collapsed in a stunning and historic manner, starting in mid-March when the measures to slow down the spread of the pandemic took effect, when working from home became the new thing, and when millions of people lost their jobs on a weekly basis and stopped driving to work. Gasoline consumption, after bottoming out in the week ended April 3 with a year-over-year plunge of -48%, to 6.7 million barrels per day, the lowest in the EIA’s data going back to 1991, the great recovery began – and fizzled. Read More |  |
06.18.20- The Destruction of the Shale Oil Industry Begins: Massive Impairment Write-offs
While I knew several shale companies posted significant impairment write-offs last quarter, I had no idea of the extent of the damage. Just about every shale oil company posted an impairment write-off in their Q1 2020 results. And, when we add up the total for the leading twelve shale companies, it was a stunning $40 billion: Read More |  |
06.17.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Joys of Diversity and Multicullturalism Have Come Home to Roost
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06.16.20- Chesapeake May Go
A separate report by MarketWatch also cited an unnamed source as saying that this week was the week for Chesapeake to throw in the towel. Read More |  |
06.15.20- IEA: The Energy Sector Will Never Be The Same Again
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06.13.20- Solar hydrogen production: Splitting water with UV is now at almost
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06.12.20- New Solar Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
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06.11.20- Bulls Beware: A Dark Cloud Is Forming Over Oil Markets
After entering negative territory for the first time in history, U.S. WTI prices have briefly touched $40/bbl amid record production cuts and an uptick in global demand. Oil and gas stocks have doubled from their March 23 nadir, marking a sharp reversal from the precipitous drop that wiped out nearly two decades of gains. Read More |  |
06.10.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Engineering a Race War... Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire?
Don’t fall for it. The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, but this is about so much more than systemic racism. This is the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst. Read More |  |
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It seems like only yesterday. Americans were denied the right to go to their churches. They were denied the right to visit their loved ones in the hospital. They were denied the right to open their businesses and go to work to provide for themselves and their families. Read More |  |
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06.06.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Differrent: Gun sales skyrocket amid coronavirus pandemic AND engineered riots
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06.05.20- A Perfect Storm For Petrochemicals
Some economies are slowly rebounding from earlier shutdowns, and the oil and petrochemical industry succeeded in ramming through rollbacks of plastic bag bans in the wake of the pandemic. But the hit to the global economy could more than overwhelm those wins. Read More |  |
06.04.20- How Quickly Will Bakken Oil Production Decline?? Mush Faster Than American Realize
According to a new chart by Jean Laherrere, from his recent work titled, Negative WTI on 20 April 2020: an accident or a trend?, the estimated oil production decline at the North Dakota Bakken will destroy the notion of U.S. Energy Independence, once and for all. Here is Laherrere’s chart showing the ultimate recovery of 5.5 billion barrels from the North Dakota Bakken, and what that would like on the downside of the decline slope: Read More |  |
06.03.20- Will Sodium Batteries
The problem with sodium batteries are their limited capacity. Read More |  |
06.02.20- Will America Win The Race
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(Natural News) After reviewing the videos surrounding the arrest and killing of George Floyd, it’s clear to me that he was deliberately murdered. I understand there are different interpretations of what happened, and new evidence may emerge that will alter my view, but based on what I’ve seen so far, it seems abundantly clear that Mr. Floyd was deliberately murdered in broad daylight. Read More |  |
05.30.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: This Is A Full Societal Breakdown
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05.29.20- Oil Is Unlikely To Go Much Higher
Of note, China’s oil demand has climbed back to about 13 million barrels per day (mb/d), a swift rebound that undergirded improving market sentiment. With China’s demand back to about 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels, oil traders are clearly holding out hopes of a quick rebound elsewhere. Read More |  |
05.28.20- From Boom Town To Ghost Town: Texas Grapples With Low Oil Prices
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05.27.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Coin-Toss Election
The biggest change in my election forecast is that Trump’s chances of reelection in November have plunged from 74% (the pre-COVID forecast) to 50% as of today. This does not mean Trump will lose; he could very well win. But it will be a very close election. Deciding the outcome between Trump and Biden as of now is basically a coin toss. Many factors, some foreseeable and some unforeseen, could tip the balance. Read More |  |
05.26.20- Floating ocean platform harvests wind, solar and wave energy
It's conceived as a modular system that can be specified with any or all of these features, depending on where it's being deployed and what your power needs are. Designed to handle waves up to six meters (19.6 ft) in height, it can harvest energy from waves up to 2 m (6.5 ft) high without the platform itself moving much at all, thanks to a series of floats that move 10-ft (3-m) pushrods up and down in response to wave activity. Read More |  |
05.25.20- And Now, for Somethng Entirely Different: Brave New Normal
I don’t mean the kind of fascism the corporate media and the fake Resistance have been desperately hyping for the last four years. God help me, but I’m not terribly worried about a few hundred white-supremacist morons marching around with tiki torches hollering Nazi slogans at each other, or Jewish-Mexican-American law clerks flashing “OK” signs on TV, or smirking schoolkids in MAGA hats. Read More |  |
05.23.20- Why The Covid Crisis Is A Pivotal Moment For Renewables
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), based on analysis of 100 days of data, states that global energy demand in the current year is set to plunge 6% Y/Y, the equivalent of losing the entire energy demand of India. Read More |  |
05.22.20- Oil May Never Fully Recover
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05.21.20- Why The Future Of Oil Rests On China
The National People’s Congress (NPC), the most important policy-setting annual event in the Communist country, is expected to decide what stimulus to inject into the economy after it markedly slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the potential decisions for supporting infrastructure and railroads and other commodity-intensive sectors could drive up China’s demand for crude oil, fuels, and other commodities, including steel and copper, according to Bloomberg News. Read More |  |
05.20.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Trump Derangement vs. Trump Enablement
Those who suffer from the very real Trump Derangement Syndrome disorder have taken the side of the virus, clinging to it like desperate leeches. They are emotionally invested in the virus, and in the medical and scientific “experts” who promote its dangers, and advocate more authoritarian means to combat it. Read More |  |
05.19.20- Is Hydrogen The Jet Fuel Of The Future?
According to some, they may be focusing on the wrong sort of vehicles to power with hydrogen. True, there are billions of passenger cars on the roads around the world. But there are also millions of aircraft in the skies – or there used to be. The aviation sector may well be the game-changer for hydrogen. Read More |  |
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Straight from the biggest player in propaganda and fake news, CNN,comes an article designed to terrify. It says Rick Bright has warned Congress of the “darkest winter in modern history” without a ramped up coronavirus response. Meaning, unless you submit to even more tyranny and fully enslave yourselves to the ruling class, it’ll be “dark winter.” The lies coming from CNN it’s contributions are unbelievable at this point. Do not let these puppets of the tyrannical ruling class scare you anymore. Read More |  |
05.16.20- The Holy Grail Of
Stanford University researchers have unveiled a wireless charging technology that employs magnetism to seamlessly charge EVs, drones, and robots during operation. Read More |  |
05.15.20- Fragile Oil Markets Under Threat From 50 Million Barrels Of Saudi Crude
On Wednesday, the EIA reported that commercial crude oil inventories had declined by some 700,000 barrels in the week to May 8. The modest draw gave hope that the oil storage problem may soon begin to resolve itself even if total stockpiles were still above the five-year average for the season. Read More |  |
05.14.20- Oil glut closes Middle East’s largest crude terminal
Terminal operators at Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates say they’re turning down requests from traders and refiners to store crude and refined products, whereas a year ago they had ample space. The port’s 14 million barrels of commercial crude-storage capacity is just a fraction of what Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi provide for their state oil companies. Read More |  |
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05.12.20- Trump’s Corn Crisis Is Back
The global pandemic and the collapse of oil prices has devastated both sides. Demand for ethanol tracks gasoline consumption, so the steep drop in fuel consumption has hit ethanol producers very hard. But refiners are also curtailing processing and shutting down some facilities temporarily as demand has fallen off of a cliff. Read More |  |
05.11.20- Are Diamonds The Answer To Our Nuclear Waste Problem?
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05.09.20- THE END OF A U.S. OIL GIANT: ExxonMobil’s Days Are Numbered
Good question. Now, some may believe that ExxonMobil was forced to borrow money to pay dividends due to the collapse in oil prices as a result of the global contagion. However, the company hasn’t been able to pay shareholder dividends from its cash from operations over the past four quarters, even with much higher oil prices. Read More |  |
05.08.20- Why This Oil Rally Won't Last
WTI prices have doubled from $12 to $24 in a little over a week. There is evidence that demand has bottomed out and has begun to rise from recent lows. U.S. gasoline demand has ticked up for two consecutive weeks, rising from 5.31 million barrels per day (mb/d) in mid-April to 6.66 mb/d on May 1. Read More |  |
05.07.20- "Artificial leaf" device turns water and sunlight into hydrogen fuel
The system is made up of a perovskite solar cell, hooked up to electrodes made of a catalyst that electrolyzes the water. When sunlight hits the solar cell, it produces electricity that powers the catalyst, which then splits the water into oxygen and hydrogen. These bubble up to the surface where they can be collected for use. Read More |  |
05.06.20- Could Renewable Spending Solve The Unemployment Crisis In Oil?
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05.05.20- World-first "impossible" rotating detonation engine fires up
The vast majority of engines, of course, use combustion rather than detonation to achieve their output goals. Combustion is a relatively slow and controlled process resulting from the reaction between fuel and oxygen at high temperatures, and it's very well understood and mature as a technology. Read More |  |
05.04.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Beware of Tyranny More Than Covid-19
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05.02.20- The Next Perovskite Solar Breakthrough Could Give Us Endless Energy By 2025
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05.01.20- Fleet Of 28 Saudi Oil Tankers Could Send U.S. Oil Prices Crashing In May
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04.30.20- Rare metalloid quadruples lifespan of lithium-sulfur batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are the backbone of modern energy storage in consumer devices, but there are alternatives in the pipeline that could offer us considerable advantages moving forward. Among the candidates are lithium-sulfur batteries, which can hold many times the energy of their lithium-ion counterparts but quickly degrade and die. Scientists at University of Texas at Austin have devised a solution to this problem, integrating a protective layer that enables the lithium-sulfur battery to last four times longer. Read More |  |
04.29.20- Are Solar Windows The Next Big Renewable Breakthrough?
The team, led by materials chemistry professor Jacek Jasieniak, developed a new kind of semi-transparent solar cell that featured one important difference from other semi-transparent cells: they had a component replaced with an organic conductor that can be transformed into a polymer, much more stable than the original—and common—solar cell component. Read More |  |
04.28.20- $110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs
The signs are legion: Unprecedented levels of job and capital destruction, decimated consumer spending, underperformance by nearly all major financial markets, and a breakdown in the world fiscal order. Read More |  |
04.27.20- Oil Prices Crash 24%
Global oil storage is inching closer and closer to reaching its capacity, and worse, the problem is being exacerbated as more local governments across the world extending COVID-19 lockdown recommendations, weighing on crude demand. According to Goldman Sachs, global oil storage could be completely full within the next three weeks, and another dramatic crash could follow. Read More |  |
04.25.20- First Shale Oil Domino to Fall: More to Follow
From the data on Shaleprofile.com, Continental Resources had over 2,200 wells in the North Dakota and Montana Bakken producing oil and gas during February this year. How many wells will Continental’s Harold Hamm shut in the Bakken?? And how many will be brought back online, at to what cost, when the market recovers?? Read More |  |
04.24.20- What Happens If Oil Storage Runs Out In The Permian?
Only about 3% of the stored oil volumes have historically resided on production leases while roughly half sits upstream of refineries. Since refineries can make storage space for crude by processing it and storing it as products, the system can hold about as much more oil as refined products waiting for shipment. It is safe to assume that storage capacity is no less than its recent high, but it is not clear how much more space may exist. Read More |  |
04.23.20- Oil: The Storm Before
As with any product, the business of oil isn’t a once-and-done. It must be produced, shipped and processed, and then the refined product must be shipped and retailed. What happened April 20 is a bottleneck in that process. Production surged ahead of pipeline shipping capacity, leaving some producers with nowhere to put their crude. Read More |  |
04.22.20- The Worst Is Yet To Come For Oil Prices
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04.21.20- Here Is The Full Explanation Behind Today's Unprecedented Negative Oil Price
Let me explain what that means: A physical contract such as the NYMEX WTI has a delivery point at Cushing, OK, & date, in this occurrence May. So people who hold the contract at the end of the trading window have to take physical delivery of the oil they bought on the futures market. This is very rare. Read More |  |
04.20.20- Futures Plunge As WTI Crashes By Most On Record, Tumbling To $11 Per Barrel
While Brent was only down $1.12, or 4%, at $26.96 a barrel on Monday morning, the carnage took place in the landlocked WTI, whose May contract fell $5.70 to its lowest since March 1998 though the sell-off was exaggerated by the contract’s Tuesday expiry because no one wants to be left long to take delivery as there is nowhere to put the physical product. In any case, the 37% drop was the biggest one-day drop on record! Read More |  |
04.18.20- U.S. Energy Consumption
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04.17.20- The Big Shale Short: Twitter Traders Make Millions On The Oil Price Crash
The blockbuster from 2015 tells the true story of a bunch of investors who bet against the U.S. housing market before the subprime mortgage crisis and the market collapse in 2008, making millions of US dollars from their shorts. ‘The Big Shale Short’ may have just found its lead characters. On Twitter. Read More |  |
04.16.20- Two new solar cells break records, including highest efficiency ever
The top honor was claimed by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), who have developed a new solar cell with an efficiency of 47.1 percent. That makes it the most efficient solar cell of any kind in the world – for now, at least. These records have a tendency to be broken pretty regularly. Read More |  |
04.15.20- How COVID-19 Is Impacting The Ethanol And Corn Producers
In the previous article, I reported that gasoline demand had plummeted to the lowest demand number in more than 50 years. But the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t just impacting the nation’s refiners and oil producers. The U.S. is also subject to a Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) which consumes most of the nation’s corn ethanol. The steep drop in gasoline demand has had a domino effect, also crushing the nation’s ethanol demand, and subsequently corn demand. Read More |  |
04.14.20- The Oil Price Crash Could Trigger A Geothermal Energy Boom
Unlike wind and solar, geothermal energy is a 24/7 energy resource, but the technologies to explore and drill for resources and build facilities make geothermal more expensive than other renewables. Read More |  |
04.13.20- The Reality Of The End Of Oil
There were those who believed that oil production would peak and begin to decline in the face of high global demand. This is essentially the peak oil argument, which many laymen mistakenly understand as “The world is running out of oil.” Read More |  |
04.11.20- Flow battery could make renewable energy storage economically viable
Though there are huge lithium-ion battery installations from the likes of Tesla that can store energy harvested from renewables like wind and solar, they're not exactly cheap. The USC researchers looked to an existing design that stores energy in liquid form. Read More |  |
04.10.20- And Now, for Someting Entirely Different: Why America Leads the World
This infection-rate tends to be higher in cities than in rural areas. 82% of America’s population is urban. 55% of the world’s population is urban. The most-urbanized nations (100% urban), and their respective number of Covid-19 cases as of April 9th (shown in parentheses), are Bermuda (39), Cayman Islands (45), Gibraltar (120), Hong Kong (961), Kuwait (855), Monaco (81), Nauru (none shown), and Singapore (1,623). Read More |  |
04.09.20- The opportunities in this crisis might be right under your nose
But government incompetence and corruption had its silver lining. For instance, housing shortages kept people cooped up in small crowded quarters. But that meant tight-knit communities formed, where people could rely on one another for mutual aid during the hard times. And there were plenty of hard times. Read More |  |
04.08.20- $1 Oil: Saudi Arabia's Attempt
But this psychological threshold is looking increasingly shaky as global crude storage facilities are filling up at an unprecedented pace. OPEC and its partners officially ended their output cut deal today, following the words of Russian Energy Minister Novak that every producer is ‘’free to pump at will’’. Read More |  |
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China is now taking full advantage of the resulting chaos to enact the next phase of the communist country’s 20-year campaign of economic warfare against the United States. Read More |  |
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04.04.20- The Ocean Could Be The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source
More than 70 companies have developed various technologies to generate electricity from ocean tides or the kinetic power of waves, leading to global ocean energy production rising tenfold over the last decade. Yet, most never advance past the pilot stages into full commercialization. Read More |  |
04.03.20- What Really Caused Oil
This should be prefaced with the fact that nobody knows what will happen and that the onset of a global pandemic means that all of the old rules are thrown out the window. Anything can happen in the context of the greatest public health and economic crisis in a century. Read More |  |
04.02.20- The US Can't Afford To Let Shale Fail
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04.01.20- Oil Markets Are On
The world’s oil markets are at a crisis point arguably not seen in its history. Since the last meeting of OPEC/OPEC+ concluded, global oil prices have collapsed to close Friday at 53.14% down for WTI and 51.14% down for Brent. These prices are the lowest seen in almost twenty years. Oil prices have tumbled as the fallout of that meeting compounded the unprecedented hit to consumption from the coronavirus pandemic. Read More |  |
03.31.20- Oil Majors Are Preparing for $10 Oil
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03.30.20- The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out
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03.28.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: All The Craziest Things About America Are Being Highlighted By This Virus
The corporate cronyism of America’s political system has been highlighted with a massive kleptocratic multitrillion-dollar corporate bailout of which actual Americans are only receiving a tiny fraction. Instead of putting that money toward paying people a living wage to stay home during a global pandemic, the overwhelming majority of the money is going to corporations while actual human beings receive a paltry $1,200 (which they won’t even be getting until May at the earliest) at a time of record-smashing unemployment. Read More |  |
03.27.20- The Energy Disaster Kicking into Full Gear: World Is Totally Unprepared For What’s Ahead
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03.26.20- Don’t Believe The Oil Bulls
The impact of this pandemic will only grow as the U.S. has failed to contain its spread. Cases are doubling every few days, and state governments are rushing to impose stay-at-home orders. The response is scattershot, much too late and still much too permissive to stop the spread. But large-scale home isolation is now the only option to mitigate the damage. Read More |  |
03.25.20- Oil Prices Are Set To Plunge Again
Reuters' John Kemp wrote in his latest column on hedge fund oil positions that global consumption of fuels had dropped by as much as 10 million bpd. He also said hedge funds had tried to feel the inflection point for oil prices twice since the crisis began and had failed both times. The final nail in the coffin of hopes: the economic situation, according to Kemp, is the worst since the Second World War. Read More |  |
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03.23.20- U.S. Oil Price Collapse =
I don’t say this to panic anyone, but to provide a more “realistic and pragmatic” view of where we go from here over the next few weeks and months. The rapid collapse in the U.S. oil price suggests BIG TROUBLE ahead for the domestic shale oil industry. While the low oil price is causing havoc in the shale industry, it’s only one component of the overall equation. Read More |  |
03.21.20- Weekend Rant: "This Is Not A Recession. It's an Ice Age..."
Maybe things feel normal where you are. Maybe things do not feel normal. Read More |  |
03.20.20- The Inevitable Outcome Of
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03.19.20- Oil Could Crash To $10 As World Runs Out Of Storage
Global oil storage could overflow in the coming weeks as the coronavirus pandemic has dealt a severe blow to demand while Saudi Arabia has promised to supply 12.3 million bpd—not just in April but also over the next few months. Read More |  |
03.18.20- Is $10 Oil On The Horizon?
One of the most famous cognitive biases is confirmation bias. As we prefer to be proven correct, we naturally incline towards information that confirms our views and try to ignore or reason away information that does not. Read More |  |
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But it took 80 days for the best doctors in the country to complete his assassination. These doctors decided that the most important thing was to remove the bullet. So they stuck their dirty unwashed finger into the wound, cut incisions, and poked and prodded. Read More |  |
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That math, by the way, leads me to some rather sobering predictions and warnings that I will share with you here. I probably should have shared these two weeks ago, but nobody would have believed me then. Read More |  |
03.14.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Goodbye to All That... The Demise of Globalization and Imperial Pretensions
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03.13.20- Should You Sell Your Oil Stocks Now?
Why did Icahn double down on Occidental Petroleum? Is Warren Buffett right when he says “turnarounds seldom turn”? And how much longer can oil and gas companies hold out in this unrelenting storm? And they all lead to the ultimate question: Should we be getting rid of our oil holdings? Read More |  |
03.12.20- Oil Crashes Again On U.S. Travel Ban
At the time of writing Brent crude was trading down by more than 8 percent at $32.71 a barrel, with West Texas Intermediate at $30.27 a barrel, also down by more than 8 percent. Read More |  |
03.11.20- Don't Be Fooled By The Oil Price Rebound
After last week data from hedge funds showed a slowdown in the selloff of oil and fuel contracts, as reported by Reuters’ John Kemp, this week’s data, for the first week of March, indicated a serious acceleration of sales. During that week, Kemp reported in his weekly column, fund sold the equivalent of 133 million barrels of oil across the six most traded oil and fuel contracts. This compares with sales of just 11 million barrels of oil equivalent across the six contracts just a week earlier. Read More |  |
03.10.20- In Crashing the Oil Price,
In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language. In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No. Read More |  |
03.09.20- Saudi Arabia Starts All-Out Oil War: MbS Destroys OPEC By Flooding Market,
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03.07.20- Oil Price Armageddon As OPEC+ Disintegrates
Oil prices plunged by more than 8 percent after the OPEC+ meeting broke up with no deal. Saudi Arabia and Russia negotiated behind closed doors in Vienna, but Moscow refused to sign on to deeper production cuts. Now there is uncertainty about whether the OPEC+ alliance will survive. A day earlier, OPEC essentially issued an ultimatum, calling for 1.5 mb/d of production cuts, but suggested that no deal would occur without Russia. At the time of this writing, oil prices were in freefall. WTI was below $43 and Brent near $46. Read More |  |
03.06.20- China Could Start A New Solar Price War
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03.05.20- The Risk For Oil Is Shifting To The Upside
Sales of the six most popular oil contracts slowed down to 11 million barrels of oil equivalent during the last week of February, Kemp reported, noting that this was before another wave of concern about the spread of the Chinese coronavirus rattled the oil market. Read More |  |
03.04.20- Why Hydrogen Stocks Are Soaring
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03.03.20- Self-healing potassium batteries: A cheap, long-life rival to lithium
Lithium is expensive, environmentally questionable in large volumes, and tends to catch on fire from time to time. It's the best solution we've currently got for EV and device battery storage, but other alternatives are starting to surface, and one that could actually make a fair bit of sense is the potassium metal battery. Read More |  |
03.02.20- Oil Market Meltdown Sends Energy Stocks Crashing
WTI plunged below $47 per barrel, and at the time of this writing, Brent was flirting with sub-$50. Read More |  |
02.29.20- Rust and light combine for a 25x boost in hydrogen production
Japan and Korea, in particular, see hydrogen as the clean fuel of the future, and are reorganizing themselves to make way for a zero-emissions "hydrogen economy" in which transport will mainly be driven by fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen-burning engines, which emit only water as their end product. Read More |  |
02.28.20- Techrules looks to power everyday EVs and grids with micro-turbines
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02.27.20- The Dark Side Of Hydropower
Hydropower has a darker side that is threatening freshwater ecosystems more than oil, more than gas, and more than any other form of energy. Read More |  |
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Why does this matter nowadays? Because understanding the historical roots of America's militias helps modern-day members appreciate the role they play in our federal system of government. Read More |  |
02.25.20- Two Innovations That Could Make CO2 Fuel A Reality
Two recent inventions are giving hope, and both have to do with nanocatalysts. As the name suggests, these are microscopic catalysts-hemicals that accelerate a chemical reaction between elements-and these catalysts can be used in hydrogenation to produce useful gases. Read More |  |
02.24.20- Two Abundant Elements That Could Create A Superbattery
But maybe they have been looking in the wrong places, with nature’s own biological kingdom providing a potential solution. Read More |  |
02.22.20- Can The U.S. Compete With China In The Energy Storage Race?
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02.21.20- Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected. Read More |  |
02.20.20- Researchers achieve a 10x supercapacitor energy density breakthrough
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02.19.20- Europe's Largest Economy Is Betting Big On Hydrogen
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02.18.20- Trump, Saudi Arabia and the End of the Petrodollar
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02.17.20- The Next Renewable Energy Source Could Be Rain
The latest potential breakthrough in renewable energy comes in the form of rain. Read More |  |
02.15.20- Coronavirus Outbreak Hits Solar Power Development In Asia
Due to factory shutdowns and production disruptions, exports of solar panels and other components out of China are being delayed, disrupting the supply chain of the solar power industries and affecting solar projects in Asia. Read More |  |
02.14.20- The Metal Trump Wants More Than Gold
There are 16 metals in total that form the world’s strategically critical rare-earth elements--and China controls the supply of every single one because it controls 96% of production. One of these crucial metals is Cesium. Read More |  |
02.13.20- The Shale Oil Bubble Accounted For 99% Of U.S. Oil Production Growth Since 2007
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02.12.20- Can Hydrogen Trucks
S&P Global Platts Analytics recently made the case for hydrogen fuel as an economical replacement of diesel in semi trucks by arguing that it was potentially a cheaper alternative to both electric trucks and compressed natural gas vehicles. Read More |  |
02.11.20- Could This Be The Decade Of Green Hydrogen?
Hydrogen has the potential to become a key clean fuel source in the future that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions—this could be the perfect solution to supplying growing amounts of low-carbon fuel and energy. Read More |  |
02.10.20- Global Warming's 50 Years of Fraud
They have predicted the coastal cities to disappear for the last 100 years and they have been wrong for 100 years. Read More |  |
02.08.20- U.S. Top Shale Oil Fields Decline 10 Times Faster Than Global Oil Industry
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02.07.20- Oil Demand Under Siege As Airlines Cancel Over 50,000 Flights
The 50,000+ flights account for 28% of all scheduled flights to, from, and within China, and 14% of those flights that were canceled were international flights. And more cancellations are coming. Read More |  |
02.06.20- New ‘Solar Panels’ Harness
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02.05.20- Brace For A Global Crisis In 2020
Changes in the fundamental sociological framework of global society, due to the end of the population growth cycle - and with it the end of the economic growth cycle based on expanding market size - were beginning to become evident by the beginning of 2020. It was apparent that 2020 was likely to see an evolution in this transformation. Read More |  |
02.04.20- Harvester pulls record amount of drinking water out of thin air
As is the case with similar systems we've covered previously, the key lies with a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF). These structures have the highest surface area of any known material – in fact, if you were able to unfold just one gram of an MOF, it would be enough to cover a football field. Read More |  |
02.03.20- Pipeline or a Pipe Dream: Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean
What is certain, however, is that the Middle East is already in the throes of a major geostrategic war, which has the potential of becoming an actual military confrontation. Read More |  |
Russian Oil Firm Could Sign Fuel-For-Diamonds Deal In This African Nation
“It is the first time I am hearing of that. The bottom line is that it is not true. I maintain that it is not true,” Chitando told the Zimbabwe Independent. Read More |  |
01.31.20- Can Seawater Batteries Replace Lithium?
Sodium, unlike lithium is widely available everywhere there is saltwater. And since saltwater makes up the bulk of the Earth’s surface, it’s safe to say that it is quite abundant and easy to access. It also has properties that make it an excellent substitute for the lithium in batteries. Read More |  |
01.30.20- US Oil Exports Could Explode After Once In A Lifetime Power Shift In China
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01.29.20- GM Claims To Have The Next Model T
Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle division, last week launched the Cruise Origin, developed with Honda Motor Co. The large white, boxed minivan with an orange roof will be autonomous and designed to carry groups of passengers — and the vehicle will lack a steering wheel or brake pedal. It will bring together a self-driving car with competitive, affordable shared-ride services. Read More |  |
01.28.20- Which Is Safer For The Environment? Lithium-Ion Or Lead-Acid Batteries?
Because of the long history of lead-acid batteries, there is a significant body of literature discussing their impact on the environment. But lithium-ion batteries are newer to the market, and their environmental impact is still being worked out. Read More |  |
01.27.20- Seriously – how deluded and gullible are people who subscribe to this nonsense?
Seriously – how deluded and gullible are people who subscribe to this nonsense?” - Rosco Mac Read More |  |
01.25.20- How To Solve Nuclear Energy’s
All this radioactivity amounts to a huge amount of maintenance to ensure that our radioactive waste is being properly managed throughout its extraordinarily long shelf life and isn’t endangering anyone. And, it almost goes without saying, all this maintenance comes at a cost. In the United States, nuclear waste carries a particularly hefty cost. Read More |  |
01.24.20- Why The Coronavirus Is A Real Threat To Oil Markets
It’s SARS CoV, better known as the SARS Coronavirus, and it’s shaping up to be the oil market’s biggest nemesis this year. And there’s no cure. SARS, which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome, is not only deadly, but highly contagious—more contagious than originally thought, and this coronavirus-inspired fear has now decisively spilled over into the oil market. Read More |  |
01.23.20- Broad-spectrum solar breakthrough could efficiently produce hydrogen
Hydrogen is viewed by many folks, particularly in Japan and Korea, as the clean-burning fuel that might power our vehicles in a low-emissions future. One way to produce hydrogen is to split it out of water. This is typically done by splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, but a potentially simpler and more efficient way to do it may be through photocatalytic water splitting, which uses light itself as the energy source instead of electricity, removing electricity production from the process altogether. Read More |  |
01.22.20- Goldman: China Coronavirus Could Push Oil Down By $3
Most of the demand loss will come from jet fuel as the risk of disease discourages travelers from getting on a plane, according to the investment bank, whose analysts qualified the outbreak’s effect on oil prices as modest, Bloomberg reports. Read More |  |
01.21.20- Has Natural Gas Hit Rock Bottom?
The gas market is suffering from oversupply, as the shale industry has drilled the market into another bust. The share prices for top gas players were deep into red territory on Friday. Range Resources, for instance, was off by more than 8 percent. Read More |  |
01.20.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Fake Investigations...
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01.18.20- Five Clean Energy Trends
Clean energy and climate policy experts have shared in Forbes their forecasts for this year’s energy system in the United States with Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director for climate policy think tank Energy Innovation. Read More |  |
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This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: Diversification of the global solar PV market. Read More |  |
01.16.20- Florida To Buy Part Of Everglades To Protect Them From Oil Drilling
The deal, which will involve 20,000 acres, will be the largest acquisition of wetlands in Floridain ten years. The seller is Kanter Real Estate LLC, which had requested a permit for oil exploration in the area from the state. The Environmental Protection Department denied the permit, Kanter sued and the court ruled in favor of the company. Read More |  |
01.15.20- Massive Oil Product Build
Analysts had expected the authority to report an inventory decline of 750,000 barrels for the period. A week earlier, the EIA estimated inventories had added 1.2 million barrels, after for the last week of 2019 it reported an inventory decline of 11.5 million barrels. Read More |  |
01.14.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Australia Burning... Disaster Capitalism or Something Else?
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01.13.20- How residential energy storage could help support the power grid
The growth of battery storage in the power sector has attracted a great deal of attention in the industry and media. Much of that attention focuses on utility-scale batteries and on batteries for commercial and industrial customers. While these larger batteries are critical segments of the energy-storage market, the rapid growth of residential energy storage is outpacing expectations, and these household systems will likely become important assets sooner than many expect. The growth trajectory and potential value of these household systems to customers and the power grid warrants a closer look. Read More |  |
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In one of the most revolutionary moves we’ve reported on to date, the Atlanta Police Department announced this week that they are disbanding their narcotics unit so they can fight actual violent crime. This move is both revolutionary and heartening and is another nail in the war on drugs’ coffin. Read More |  |
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What is surprising is that in an unusual show of progressive candor, Deep Green Resistance openly acknowledges what skeptical scientists have been saying for more than two decades: that renewable energy is a government-backed hoax that enriches big corporations -- and green energy investors like Al Gore -- at the expense of taxpayers and the environment. Read More |  |
01.09.20- "Solar umbrellas" could reduce the blight of evaporation ponds
Evaporation ponds are a cheap way to deal with waste water contaminated by industrial processes in various industries, including power plants, desalination plants as well as the oil, gas and lithium industries. The idea behind evaporation ponds is to create shallow expanses of waste water which is naturally evaporated by sunlight, leaving behind solid waste which can be more easily disposed of. Read More |  |
01.08.20- Why Is The U.S. Military Funding This New Biofuel Breakthrough?
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01.07.20- 2020: The Decade For Energy Storage
“It can also store significant amounts of energy from solar and wind power, making possible a fossil fuel-free society,” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, noting that lithium-ion batteries have created a rechargeable world over the past decade. Read More |  |
01.06.20- Is This The Future Of Solar?
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01.04.20- Physicists Just Achieved Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips
Physicists have been able to demonstrate quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time. Read More |  |
01.03.20- CapEcon: If Iran Closes The Strait Of Hormuz, Crude Would Jump To $150
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The Battle at Wounded Knee is a significant battle in American history, as it put an end to the Indian Wars and is marked as the last official defeat of the Native Americans. But what’s not taught in history lessons is that Wounded Knee was one of the first federally backed gun confiscations in the history of the United States, and it ended in the massacre of nearly 300 unarmed people. Read More |  |
01.01.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: America Is Over But You KNEW That Already…
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April 10, 2009 The United States has about 250 million registered vehicles, which adds up to a lot of pollution and burning of fossil fuels. 
Natural gas has often been vilified as just another fossil fuel contributing to the climate crisis. 
Estonia's Skeleton Technologies and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have partnered up to complete development on what they're calling the SuperBattery for EVs – "a groundbreaking graphene battery with a 15-second charging time."
Natural gas futures tumbled below $2 amid a broad rout in commodity markets and on speculation that Tropical Storm Beta may spur power outages and curtail LNG exports along the Gulf Coast (as Bloomberg notes, Beta is a slow-moving storm that will bring flooding rains in Louisiana as it toward Texas to come ashore near Corpus Christi). 
I was going to make this the shortest essay I’ve ever written. “Trump Will Win Because of Energy. Period.” But wouldn’t you know, things start popping up on exactly the topic it was going to be about… The difference in energy between Donald Trump and Joe Biden should be obvious to everyone, including Biden supporters, though they will try to ignore it, as well as the role energy plays in a campaign, as it does in life in general -not just human life either-. 
A team from Australia's RMIT University says it's figured out a cost-effective way to produce hydrogen using wastewater and sewage. The process not only produces clean H2 gas, it also captures all the carbon in human poop and puts it to valuable use.
I haverelied on no particular source of information in the process of forming an opinion regarding the causes and the promoters of the present disturbances in the US, and their objectives. I browse the Internet like anyone else. My opinion regarding events in the US is the result of my personality: my opinions are what they are, because I am the way I am.
Following energy news these days is exciting: there is so much about new batteries, more efficient solar panels, cheaper wind energy, and dozens of EV models coming to a market near you any day now. The future looks bright, emission-free, and electric. All it takes to ruin the vision is a single report, in this case from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Much of the southwestern portion of the United States has been gripped by a drought that never seems to end, and there is a tremendous amount of concern that patterns that we witnessed back during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s may be starting to repeat. 
It’s been disheartening for the bulls that oil prices have failed to break out over the past few weeks despite a flurry of positive news including declining inventories and reports that OPEC+ producers have 
Natural gas prices spiked on Friday by nearly 9%, even as the weekly storage report showed little movement.
I had no idea that things had gotten so bad. Earlier today, my wife spoke with the manager of a local grocery store because she wanted to place a large order for some canned goods. What she was told surprised her, and it certainly surprised me. The manager of this local grocery store told her that there are numerous nationwide shortages going on at this moment, and he indicated that there are lots of products that he simply cannot get right now. When my wife told me what he had said, I decided that I had to look into this, because I hadn’t heard that canned goods were in short supply. Well, it turns out that the manager that my wife spoke with was right on target, and that should deeply alarm all of us. 
It’s a rule of thumb among epidemiologists that every epidemic is different and could be laden with surprises. It now seems the same applies to economic crises. During the last downturn, the one that started from the subprime mortgage crisis, the hardest-hit industries were, understandably, real estate and banking. Now, it’s oil and gas in the crosshairs, and nobody knows if the industry will ever be able to recover fully. Just like the coronavirus epidemic that started in China and within two months spread all over the world forcing people to stay at home, the March OPEC+ meeting that was supposed to lead to a deeper round of production cuts ended in a price war. It couldn’t have come at a worse time, but nobody could anticipate the lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders at the time. 
If one day Hollywood picks up a movie to make about this year’s decline in the U.S. oil industry, it could call it ‘The Big Shale Short,’ after the 2015 film ‘The Big Short.’
Many have speculated that COVID-19’s “escape” from the Wuhan lab was simply an accident. Others are speculating that China launched COVID-19 in part as retaliation for Trump’s pro-America trade agreements. Whether by accident or design, it is clear that China was working on biological warfare, and it was unleashed on the world.
For all their hype as the biggest and final frontier in clean energy production, tidal and wave power have never quite lived up to their potential. The IEA estimates that we harnessed
It’s no secret that the growth of U.S. shale oil has been a thorn in the sides of both Saudi Arabia and Russia. They have seen their market shares erode as the shale boom made the U.S. the world’s largest producer of crude oil. But Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Saudi Aramco, is a single entity that produces 13 percent of the world’s oil and controls 17 percent of the world’s proved reserves. That puts them in a very powerful position. They can withhold a lot of oil from the market, or they can flood the market with oil and crash the price. 
“Corona is a black light and America is a cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan Amram colorfully 
There’s more evidence finally surfacing in the media of the dire energy predicament the world is now facing. The negative ramifications of peak oil and the falling EROI were going to hit the world economy within the next 2-5 years, but the global contagion has sped up the process considerably. Unfortunately, the world will never return back to the energy consumption and GDP growth experienced in 2019. I believe the peak of unconventional oil production has finally arrived… FOREVER. 
The world surplus could reach 20 million barrels per day (mb/d) in the next few weeks, threatening not only to top off storage tanks everywhere, but to crash prices even further and shut in oil production. The shutdown orders in the U.S. continue to multiply, confining tens of millions of people to their homes. Much of Western Europe remains on lockdown as well. 
President James Garfield was shot at a train station on July 2, 1881.
Two days ago, Alex Jones called me, “The Oracle” on his show and the name sort of stuck. It turns out that when you run good mathematical projection models, you really can sort of “see the future” to the astonishment of many. In truth, I’m just running the numbers and reporting what the math tells me. There’s really no voodoo involved.
The decline phase of the S-Curve is just beginning. 
There are three questions tormenting investors in the oil and gas industry right now: 
After a brief respite following reports of central bank economic stimuli in the United States and the UK, crude oil slumped once again after on Wednesday, President Donald Trump instituted a 30-day travel ban on most European countries because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A mild winter in the northern hemisphere, the COVID-19 outbreak, and now the price war that Saudi Arabia declared last weekend have combined to produce an all-new oil price crisis just four years after the last one. And things might get worse before they get better. 
There is real power in the word “No.”
With the commodity world still smarting from the Nov 2014 Saudi decision to (temporarily) break apart OPEC, and flood the market with oil in (failed) hopes of crushing US shale producers (who survived thanks to generous banks extending loan terms and even more generous buyers of junk bonds), which nonetheless resulted in a painful manufacturing recession as the price of Brent cratered as low as the mid-$20's in late 2015/early 2016. 
It appears that the OPEC+ alliance may soon be over as Russia refuses to cut and its oil minister hints at increasing production.
The solar market is becoming supersized, with the size and scale of solar projects soaring and some of the biggest names in the tech industry getting behind the renewable energy boom. Despite the 
The oil price slide that prompted several weeks of oil contract selling among hedge funds could be coming to a close, according to the latest data on hedge fund oil buying and selling, as 
For decades climate change was a topic for predominantly environmentalists. Since the early 2010s, this has changed dramatically. The transformation culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 where the world agreed on a comprehensive path to tackle an existential threat. Consequentially the energy transition has strongly gained in importance as countries around the world are racing to replace their carbon-intensive economies with green alternatives. 
American scientists say they've solved the dendrite formation problem that's held back the development of cheap, powerful, high-density potassium batteries
The market meltdown 
Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science have used rust as a catalyst in light-assisted hydrogen production from organic waste, finding it produces 25 times more hydrogen than previous titanium dioxide catalysts.
Those that know Techrules at all know it as the Chinese company behind the micro-turbine-powered, fighter jet-inspired 
Hydropower is the
Hydrogen, once touted as the fuel of the future and then slipping into near oblivion as electric cars gained popularity, may still have a future as a fuel, just not for passenger cars. Hydrogen, it seems, could become the preferred fuel for a category of vehicles that currently account for a significant share of oil demand: long-haul trucks.
Solar power is cheaper than ever, it’s ultra-abundant, and it emits zero greenhouse gases. But it’s far from perfect--for now. One of the biggest limitations of solar energy (which applies to wind power as well) is that it is variable and is not dispatchable. Variability refers to the fact that solar power is dependent on a completely unreliable factor: the weather. Solar panels don’t generate energy if the sun isn’t shining, meaning that they don’t function for an entire half of every day and function far under capacity during overcast daylight hours. They also can’t be turned on and off according to the grid’s needs, known as dispatchability. Instead of being able to respond to the energy needs of the grid, the grid has to work around the productivity of the solar panels. Read More
The year 2020 could emerge as the start of the era of relative global chaos or major upheaval. It is the era we have been anticipating, as the impact of core population decline meets economic dislocation, and security and structural uncertainty.
Clean water is all around us, and more literally than you might think – it's floating around in the air most of the time. Of course, it’s not particularly drinkable in that form, but now researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) have found materials that can collect huge amounts of water from the air.
Russian oil firm Tatneft could strike a deal with Zimbabwe to supply fuel to the crisis-stricken African country in exchange for diamonds, the Zimbabwe Independent 
Lithium and cobalt: the two components of a rechargeable battery that have spurred a research and development rush may eventually meet their match in the future, in a simple element available in abundance in seawater.
The consensus of opinion is that China’s commitment to buy an additional US$52.4 billion in U.S. energy products in 2020/21 as part of the Phase 1 trade deal between the two countries is impossible to achieve. The consensus is wrong, as a paradigmatic shift currently taking place in the core power structure of China means that the new energy products import targets are eminently achievable. Whether China wants to achieve them, though, is another issue entirely. 
General Motors has a grand, visionary concept vehicle up its sleeve 
Following recent articles I wrote on both 
Nuclear waste is a huge issue and it’s not going away any time soon--in fact, it’s not going away for millions of years. While most types of nuclear waste remain radioactive for mere tens of thousands of years, the half-life of Chlorine-36 is 300,000 years and neptunium-237 boasts a half-life of a whopping 2 million years. 
It impairs your breathing, causes extreme fatigue and fevers. It kills. And beyond that, it’s keeping oil prices low by threatening to stifle oil demand in one of the world’s largest oil markets. 
A new molecule developed by Ohio State University scientists can harvest energy from the entire visible spectrum of light, bringing in up to 50 percent more solar energy than current solar cells, and can also catalyze that energy into hydrogen.
The outbreak of a coronavirus in China that is now an international threat could cut oil demand by 260,000 bpd, which would translate into a price drop of almost $3 per barrel, Goldman Sachs has said.
U.S. natural gas prices fell below 
Many government officials with long entrenched power are unwilling to give up any of that power. In their minds, they have a right to control our lives as they see fit, with complete indifference to our wishes. To avoid rebellion, they need to hide this fact as much as possible. They want the citizens to believe the lie that we are a nation of laws with equal justice under the law. To advance this lie, they have staged many theatrical productions that they call “investigations”. They try to give us the impression that they want to expose the facts and punish wrongdoing. 
At the start of 2020, analysts bravely stepped out on a limb to predict how the turbulent energy market and energy systems will evolve at the beginning of the new decade. 
Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, according to the new 2020 Global Photovoltaic (PV) Demand Forecast by IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions. New annual installations in 2020 will reach 142 gigawatts (GW), a 14 % rise over the previous year.
Florida has agreed to buy part of the Everglades wetlands to protect the sensitive ecosystem from oil drilling, Reuters 
A day after the API’s crude oil inventory 
By far and away this past week, the biggest story flooding my email inbox were the fires in Australia. That’s partially understandable, as many members and readers of this website live in Australia. When these first started, though, I was skeptical of the explanations – what few there were – on the media. I did manage to hear a story from the Australian media that in one instance they had arrested two young men committing arson, who somehow managed to get the uniforms of a fire department in New South Wales. But the lack of details thus far has been the most suspicious thing. Note that I said “thus far”, because details are beginning to emerge… 
Household batteries could contribute to making the grid more cost effective, reliable, resilient, and safe—if retail battery providers, utilities, and regulators can resolve delicate commercial, operational, and policy issues.
