Archive for the 'Energy' Category
France to Pave 1000km of Roads with Solar Panels
January 29th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — 😯 Via: Treehugger: Over the next five years, France will install some 621 miles (1,000km) of solar roadway using Colas’ Wattway solar pavement. … No, this is not the crowdfunded solar road project that blew up the internet a few years ago, but is a […]
Orison Battery: Plug and Play Home Energy Storage
January 25th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Wow! Pretty cool, but, questions, questions… * How does it know when your solar system is making excess power? Current clamp? Inverter coms? Other? * How, specifically, does it deal with grid failures (islanding)? In other news, over in Germany, SMA just teased their new […]
Ecotricity: A More Solar Friendly Electricity Retailer in New Zealand
January 25th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Do you live in New Zealand? Do you have a grid-tie solar power system? and/or Do you own an electric car? Check out Ecotricity. Time-of-use tariffs mean that the price of your electricity drops dramatically at night, in other words, when your solar system isn’t […]
Oil Breaks Below $27, Down Over 5%
January 20th, 2016S&P500 October 2014 low is taken out intraday. — S&P500 leaning over, real ugly. Through all recent weekly supports now. If anyone at the PPT is awake at the switch… This is it. —- USO bids $8 — This move is nuts. Crude Oil Feb 16 (CLG16.NYM) -NY Mercantile $26.86 Down $1.60(5.62%) 11:07AM EST — […]
Big Banks Brace for Oil Loans to Implode
January 18th, 2016Via: CNN: Big banks are cringing as crude oil is crumbling. Firms on Wall Street helped bankroll America’s energy boom, financing very expensive drilling projects that ended up flooding the world with oil. Now that the oil glut has caused prices to crash below $30 a barrel, turmoil is rippling through the energy industry and […]
Mistake? Refiner Bids -50 Cents Per Barrel for Low Grade Oil
January 18th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Oil is so plentiful and cheap in the U.S. that at least one buyer says it would pay almost nothing to take a certain type of low-quality crude. Flint Hills Resources LLC, the refining arm of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch’s industrial empire, said it offered to pay $1.50 a barrel Friday […]
LG to Triple Solar Panel Production by 2020
January 13th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in NZ. — Via: LG PR: LG Electronics (LG) today announced plans to significantly expand its solar energy solution business with a multimillion dollar investment to expand its solar panel manufacturing capabilities in South Korea. LG entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Korean city of Gumi to […]
U.S. Exports First Freely Traded Oil in 40 Years
January 13th, 2016Via: Wall Street Journal: The ink is barely dry on legislation to lift a 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude and energy companies already are jockeying to ship American oil overseas. Two tankers filled with freely traded U.S. oil have pulled out of Texas ports in the past two weeks, with more shipments expected. The […]
Oil Trades Below $30 a Barrel for First Time in 12 Years
January 12th, 2016Via: Reuters: Oil fell briefly below the widely watched $30-per-barrel level on Tuesday, extending a selloff that has sliced almost 20 percent off prices this year amid deepening concerns about fragile Chinese demand and the absence of output restraint. Prices settled down 3 percent, a seventh straight daily decline for oil. Traders have all but […]
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery
January 11th, 2016Building a refinery for Hitler? *pfft* How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Also see: Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: New York Times: The father of the billionaires Charles […]
