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Ads & Website Claim That Enron Is Back

December 7, 2024 admin 0 Comments enron, Fossil Fuels, humor, natural gas, Oil

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:32:42 +0000

Drivers and newspaper readers in Houston recently got a bit of a surprise: advertisements announcing the return of Enron. Before I explore what’s really happening here, let’s start by exploring why the ads shocked people. I’ll pass. pic.twitter.com/OyjfgWSVfs — Chris Hollins (@CGHollins) December 2, 2024 The Rise & Fall Of … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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LG Chem & ExxonMobil Sign Lithium Offtake Agreement

December 2, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, exxon, exxonmobil, Fossil Fuels, green economy, lg, lg chem, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, Oil

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:57:03 +0000

Oil was the “black gold” of the last century, and lithium might be called the “white gold” or “silvery-white gold” of this century. (No one calls it that, but that’s okay.) So, it’s only fitting that Exxon is planning to extract and sell some of this white gold now. In … [continued]

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11 Republican States Sue Financial Giants Over Coal Investments And ESG

December 1, 2024 admin blackrock, esg, Fossil Fuels, ken paxton, natural gas, policy & politics, state street, subsidies, vanguard

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:55:46 +0000

The attorneys general of eleven Republican States, led by Ken Paxton of Texas, have filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that some of the largest money managers in the world have conspired among themselves to stick a knife in the back of … [continued]

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Hard Sail Power Might Have Niche In Roro Vehicle Shipping

December 1, 2024 admin boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, natural gas, ocean shipping, Oil, Shipping, shipping emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000

Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]

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Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Renewable Diesel Fuel With Electricity & Microbes

November 30, 2024 admin biodiesel, clean transport, Diesel, Fossil Fuels, renewable fuels, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:20:35 +0000

Biofuels for diesel engines can be made much more efficiently, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.

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How Is The Landscape Of Power Generation Moving Toward Decarbonization?

November 28, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, Coal, decarbonization, Energy, Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:09:34 +0000

A November 2024 article called “The Changing Landscape of Power Generation & Decarbonization Pathways“ offers several insights into ways that the grid is quickly evolving due to the increased adoption of renewable and other energy sources. Here’s a synthesis of the findings from authors René Leven, Aravind Rajagopal, and John … [continued]

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The Primary Energy Fallacy

November 27, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, lawrence livermore national laboratories, Oil, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:10:48 +0000

Everyone has some idea of how much energy an ICE vehicle uses. After all, if you’re putting fuel in and then seeing how much you can drive before it needs fuel again, you know that you’re pumping a certain amount in. Add in the knowledge of other things a gallon … [continued]

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Old Cartoon Shows Us How Much Energy Has Changed Since 1977

November 26, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, History, Oil

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:01:59 +0000

Recently, my wife decided that she wanted to watch some old Flintstones cartoons. I mean, who doesn’t like nostalgia? But, being more of a geek, it wasn’t long before I wondered something about one of the voice actors and was Googling things. Before long, I fell down a Flintstones rabbit … [continued]

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COP29: “Fighting Climate Change” is Euphemism for Ending Fossil Fuels

November 26, 2024 admin climate change, Coal, cop28, cop29, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Saudi Arabia

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 04:16:48 +0000

After the only win from last year’s COP28 was saying out loud “End Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Baby-Drill crowd under the leadership of Saudi Arabia is doing everything in their power to make it just a line in an “All of the Above” policy agenda. At every international forum — from … [continued]

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