Archive for the 'Energy' Category
United Arab Emirates Oil Tanker Goes Missing Near Iran
July 16th, 2019Update: Iran says it has seized foreign oil tanker and crew in the Persian Gulf — Via: Guardian: Tracking data showing an oil tanker that was heading towards Iranian waters and stopped transmitting its location on Saturday night has raised concerns about the status of the vessel amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US. […]
Diablo Canyon Nightmare Scenario: The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone
July 13th, 2019Cryptogon always supplies you with the most pleasant reading for the weekend. Via: CommonDreams: Nothing significant has been done to improve safety at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four Fukushima reactors have already exploded. Had Friday’s 7.1 […]
New York: Massive Power Outage In Midtown, Times Square, Other Sections Of Manhattan, Thousands Affected
July 13th, 2019CBS New York Livestream — Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage Given — Via: CBSNY: A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan. CBS2 began to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening. There […]
Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
July 12th, 2019If the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the 800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
Solein: Synthetic, Protein-Heavy Product, Tastes Like Wheat Flour, Made from Electricity, Water and Air
June 29th, 2019Safety? I can’t find anything related to safety. Also, even if there were claims about it being safe to consume, should we believe them? See: Vaccines, aspartame, GM food, fluoride, etc. “The foodstuff was said to mark a break with a thousand years of production…” Alright. How much time and effort will be spent studying […]
Did U.S. Navy Patent Tic-Tac UFO Technology?
June 29th, 2019Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects: At some level, there probably exists much more knowledge about the nature of the objects in the videos than we are being told… I think there’s at least better than even odds that an American is at the controls (possibly by remote) of […]
Paul Hellyer: Why Is the U.S. Government Releasing UFO Videos Now?
June 28th, 2019Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects: While I’d like to know what they’re showing us, I am far more interested in Why Now? and To What End? Via: MUFON Canada:
General Electric to Scrap California Power Plant 20 Years Early
June 26th, 2019Via: Reuters: General Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity. Related: GE Bet on […]
“Come Heavily Armed”: Oregon Senator Threatens Violence As Governor Hunts Down Lawmakers
June 23rd, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: A standoff between Republican and Democratic Oregon state senators escalated on Friday after Governor Kate Brown (D) authorized state police to track down Republican lawmakers who have stalled a vote on carbon credit legislation by walking out and refusing to vote.
Iran Shoots Down U.S. Military Drone in Gulf Region
June 20th, 2019Via: Reuters: Iran has shot down a U.S. drone which the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday was flying over southern Iran, raising fears that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and Washington. Guards website Sepah News said the “spy” drone was brought down over the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, which is […]
