Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Plane Carrying Former Senator Ted Stevens Crashes in Alaska
August 10th, 2010Update: Ted Stevens Killed In Plane Crash Via: CBS News: Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history who lost his seat after a corruption conviction that was later dismissed, was killed Tuesday in a small plane crash in Alaska. He was 86. A family friend said Stevens was among five people killed in […]
U.S. Electricity Blackouts Skyrocketing
August 10th, 2010Via: CNN: Throughout New York City, about 52,000 of ConEd’s 3.2 million customers lost power during the heat wave. Triple-digit temperatures forced residents like 77 year-old Rui Zhi Chen, to seek shelter at one of the city’s 400 emergency cooling centers. “It felt like an oven in my home and on the street,” Chen said. […]
Flywheel Power Grid Storage Project
August 9th, 2010Via: Cnet: Beacon Power on Monday said it has closed a $43 million loan guarantee with the Department of Energy for a project to use flywheels to buffer 20 megawatts of power on the grid. The loan covers 62.5 percent of the estimated $69 million needed to construct the flywheel storage plant in Stephentown, N.Y. […]
Matt Simmons Dead “Of An Apparent Heart Attack”
August 9th, 2010Update: Reader Email F writes: You probably want to avoid wild speculation but do you have any possible insights into this, assuming it’s not “natural causes” or an accident? All along, I never really knew what to make of Matt Simmons. I didn’t post the Bloomberg video below because (no offense intended to family and […]
The Ministry of Oil Defense
August 6th, 2010The article opens with: It’s not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn’t stand for it. Oh really? How Many Millions are in a Trillion? from Econ4U on Vimeo. Tell us all another one about what “Americans” won’t stand for. […]
And Now… Al Qaeda Responsible for Japanese Tanker Attack
August 6th, 2010That’s the ticket. Via: CBS News: Ten years after the deadly attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden, al Qaeda once again struck at sea with a suicide attack on a Japanese oil tanker. A UAE Coast Guard source confirmed Friday that the tanker, M. Star, was the target […]
China: Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam
August 3rd, 2010Via: Reuters: Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China […]
Big Picture Gallery: Cleaning Dalian Harbor
August 1st, 2010* shaking head * Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats – much of the work […]
US-Canada Pipeline Leaks Oil Into Michigan River
July 28th, 2010Via: BBC: A pipeline carrying oil from the US state of Indiana to Ontario, Canada has spilled more than 800,000 gallons (3m litres) of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A spokesman for the firm running the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, said a malfunction had caused the leak. The […]
Tug Vessel Hits Abandoned Gas Well in Barataria Waterway
July 28th, 2010Via: WWLTV: The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans. A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug […]
