My Response To A Libertarian Podcast On Trump’s Likely Energy Policy

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:36:22 +0000

In this article, I comment on the recent podcast/video, “What Should Trump Do About Energy Policy?” below. I found it interesting to listen to, but I did have some issues with a few things, and maybe we can discuss them and both come away better informed. Energy Policy Discussion In … [continued]

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The Tesla Ethicist: Musk, X, & Feeding Voter Indifference About The Climate Crisis

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:50:44 +0000

Dear Tesla Ethicist: My allegiance to Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been long-standing — at least until lately. I remember being excited at seeing my first sighting of a Model S in western Connecticut in the mid-2010s. It was sleek and alluring, and it gave me hope that battery-electric vehicles … [continued]

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Carbon Capture And Sequestration — The Dream That Won’t Die

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:04:47 +0000

Carbon capture is touted as the answer to all our climate woes, but no one really knows what to do with it once it is removed from the air.

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Duke Energy Will Replace A Coal Generating Station With Battery Storage

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:12 +0000

Duke Energy is beginning to embrace grid scale battery storage after dancing around the idea for many years.

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You Can’t Handle The Truth About Plastics In Your Life

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:03:12 +0000

The newest Taylor Sheridan series is The Landman. Billy Bob Thornton plays a field executive for a mid-sized oil company in West Texas. Protagonist Tommy describes the oil industry as a complicated, problematic, filthy, dangerous, and necessary business that feeds most of our lifestyles. He lectures about how much we … [continued]

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Ads & Website Claim That Enron Is Back

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:32:42 +0000

Drivers and newspaper readers in Houston recently got a bit of a surprise: advertisements announcing the return of Enron. Before I explore what’s really happening here, let’s start by exploring why the ads shocked people. I’ll pass. pic.twitter.com/OyjfgWSVfs — Chris Hollins (@CGHollins) December 2, 2024 The Rise & Fall Of … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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LG Chem & ExxonMobil Sign Lithium Offtake Agreement

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:57:03 +0000

Oil was the “black gold” of the last century, and lithium might be called the “white gold” or “silvery-white gold” of this century. (No one calls it that, but that’s okay.) So, it’s only fitting that Exxon is planning to extract and sell some of this white gold now. In … [continued]

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11 Republican States Sue Financial Giants Over Coal Investments And ESG

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:55:46 +0000

The attorneys general of eleven Republican States, led by Ken Paxton of Texas, have filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that some of the largest money managers in the world have conspired among themselves to stick a knife in the back of … [continued]

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Hard Sail Power Might Have Niche In Roro Vehicle Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000

Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]

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