Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Discarded Laptop Batteries Keep the Lights On
December 4th, 2014Via: MIT Technology Review: Many of the estimated 50 million lithium-ion laptop batteries discarded every year could provide electricity storage sufficient to light homes in poor countries, researchers at IBM say. In work being aired this week at a conference in San Jose, researchers at IBM Research India in Bangalore found that at least 70 […]
Electricity Infrastructure in Detroit “Beyond Salvage”
December 2nd, 2014Via: Mlive: When a major U.S. city’s government loses power to its schools, fire stations, government buildings and sporting arenas because it’s operating on an antiquated power grid that it can’t afford to update, it’s national news, Detroit proved Tuesday. Media across the nation covered the power outage that selectively impacted municipal buildings in Detroit, […]
As Oil Prices Plunge, Wide-Ranging Effects for Consumers and the Global Economy
December 2nd, 2014Via: Washington Post: Tumbling oil prices are draining hundreds of billions of dollars from the coffers of oil-rich exporters and oil companies and injecting a much-needed boost for ailing economies in Europe and Japan — and for American consumers at the start of the peak shopping season. The result could be one of the biggest […]
Oil Down 6.88% On OPEC Strategy to Destroy U.S. Shale Business
November 27th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’ll be dusting off some capital for an eventual long side play. However, there’s a part of me, a gut feeling, that thinks that the shale apocalypse will just continue on somehow. Crude Oil Jan 15 (CLF15.NYM) -NY Mercantile 68.62 Down […]
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
November 27th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: OPEC policy on crude production will ensure a crash in the U.S. shale industry, a Russian oil tycoon said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept output targets unchanged at a meeting in Vienna today even after this year’s slump in the oil price caused by surging supply from U.S shale fields. American […]
Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels
November 26th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: New York Times: For the solar and wind industries in the United States, it has been a long-held dream: to produce energy at a cost equal to conventional sources like coal and natural gas. That day appears to be dawning. The cost of providing electricity […]
Australia: Networks Told They Need to Play Fair with Solar Customers, or Die
November 24th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. I’m working with a Cryptogon reader in New Zealand to get a solar power system installed at her property. Below is an email that I wrote to her about the New Zealand electricity cartel’s absurd and futile resistance to solar. In short, the greedier they are […]
Bill Gates Looks at LENRs as Future Energy Source
November 19th, 2014Via: New Energy Times: Bill Gates, pioneer in the digital world, is exploring low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), the frontier of energy research. On Wednesday, he visited a small laboratory on the sprawling campus of a government lab in Frascati, just outside of Rome, Italy. The lab is one of several large ones under the Italian […]
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November 5th, 2014I saw this on SMA’s (English Language) Facebook page:
New Zealand’s Electricity Bought and Sold in a “Phoney Market” which Represents Another Form of Taxation
November 3rd, 2014Via: Southland Times: The former Meridian Energy director, who is also Upoko of Awarua Runanga, said New Zealand’s electricity was bought and sold in a “phoney market” which represented another form of taxation. If the electricity market was genuinely competitive, every electricity company director and chief executive would be thrown in jail.
