Archive for the 'Energy' Category
“Iran Vows to Secure Strait of Hormuz”
July 24th, 2019It’s hard to know how much of the Iran situation is simply noise. The problem is that we can go from noise to a genuine crisis in the blink of an eye due to the tight geography of the Strait of Hormuz. How many warships can be packed in there before confusion or a false […]
Tesla: JB Straubel Is Leaving Executive Role, Moving to Advisory Role
July 24th, 2019Ouch. Shit. Not good. Via: Electrek: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that JB Straubel, Tesla co-founder and longtime Chief Technology Officer, is leaving his executive role and moving to an advisory role. Musk made the announcement during the conference call following Tesla’s release of its Q2 2019 financial results. The CEO confirmed that Straubel is […]
Trump Tells Pentagon to Find Better Sources of Rare Earth Magnet
July 23rd, 2019Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in specialty motors, warning that the nation’s defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles. Attention is growing on rare earths, an obscure grouping of 17 minerals used to build weapons, consumer electronics and a […]
Lockheed: Practical Fusion Power Still 20 Years Away
July 20th, 2019— “$21 Trillion Dollars Is Missing from the U.S. Government” Via: The Drive: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is building a new, more capable test reactor as it continues to move ahead with its ambitious Compact Fusion Reactor program, or CFR. Despite slower than expected progress, the company remains confident the project can produce practical results, […]
Iran Seizes British-Flagged Tanker in Strait of Hormuz
July 19th, 2019Via: AFP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they had seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for breaking “international maritime rules” as tensions mount in the highly sensitive waterway. Britain however said Iran had seized two ships in the Gulf, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warning of “serious consequences” if the issue was […]
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 […]
