Archive for the 'Energy' Category
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.
Swiss Company to Build Utility-Scale Batteries in North Carolina
October 30th, 2014Via: Fortune: A Swiss maker of giant storage batteries for wind and solar farms is taking over a giant Philip Morris plant. The Philip Morris plant in Concord, North Carolina used to manufacture a billion cigarettes a year. But Americans are smoking less, and in the tobacco giant shuttered the factory’s doors years ago and […]
Deepwater Horizon Spill Left an Oil Ring the Size of Rhode Island on Sea Floor
October 28th, 2014Via: The Verge: There’s an oil ring the size of Rhode Island at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and researchers say it belongs to oil company BP. According to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 10 million gallons of coagulated oil now coats the sea floor, […]
Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie Dies in Moscow Plane Crash
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and was then engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed. The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators. Mr […]
Russia: Reduction in Gas Exports to Europe Possible
October 16th, 2014Via: CNBC: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Russia will have to reduce gas supplies to Europe if Ukraine steals gas. Pipelines that supply Europe crosses Ukraine en route. In June, Moscow halted gas supplies to Ukraine due to mounting debts and pricing disagreements. Disturbance of Russian gas supplies to Europe has happened two times in […]
