“Drill Baby Drill” Becomes New Slogan
The new Republican Party platform, titled “2024 GOP Platform, Make American Great Again,” has provisions likely to damage the…
Will Bitcoin Crash the US Power Grid?
Bitcoin mining and AI applications consume huge amounts of energy. One estimate recently showed that AI’s energy capacity needs…
Are Vacant Office Buildings Good For The Environment?
The commercial property market is falling apart in some large US cities. Work-from-home habits have cut occupancy in some…
Wind And Solar Are In Huge Trouble
Lack of confidence in the financial future of alternative energy has hurt the valuations of companies in the sector…
Big Oil Says It Will Stay Very Big
The world will need more oil in the coming decades—at least, that is what oil executives have recently promoted…
Solar And Wind Energy In Trouble –Most Important Climate News 7.9.24
Hurricane Beryl decimated parts of Texas in the Houston area. It shut down electricity in over three million homes…
Google Becomes A Massive Polluter
Like other huge tech companies, Google’s parent Alphabet would help save the environment. It planned to become carbon neutral….
Should AI Use Up America’s Nuclear Power?
“Largest tech companies are looking to buy nuclear power directly from plants, which could sap the grid of critical…
Bill Gates’s Huge aI Problem
Bill Gates has done the math. The enormous amount of energy AI consumes, and the drain it puts on…
The Challenge Of Highway Traffic –Most Important Financial News 6.28.24
The wildfire season has started in earnest in California. As many as 1,000 lightning strikes set off fires near…
America’s 700 Million Barrel Underground Oil Tanks
The US government became alarmed about access to crude oil after the 1973-1974 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries…
Your Utility Could Go Bankrupt
Homeowners in parts of the country menaced by violent weather events cannot be insured in some cases. This has…
A Victory For Fossil Fuels
A few months ago, Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi and Akiko Fujita in an…
Japanese Conglomerate Invests For AI Electricity Demand
AI energy use will strain US demand to the breaking point, bringing the largest investors into the industry. They…
China Beat US In Nuclear Power Race
The US is falling years behind China when measured by the use of nuclear power. According to the Information…
135 Million Americans Threatened By Extreme Heat
As extreme heat moves from the Western states, especially around Phoenix and Las Vegas, 100 degrees F are coming…
Biden Ready To Dump Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Into Market
America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) is the largest emergency oil reserve in the world. Stored in several places, it…
Bill Gates To Put Billions Into Nuclear
The US public’s relationship with nuclear power was crippled by the meltdown of one reactor at Three Mile Island…
Rich Countries Fail To Pay Poor Ones For Climate Crisis
For several years, it has been assumed that the wealthiest nations, particularly the largest global polluters, would help poor…
Bill Gates’ Nuclear Power Dreams
Nuclear power has been considered a primary alternative to fossil fuels for decades. However, it became much less popular…
The World Will Have Too Much Oil, Experts Say
The IEA says the world will be awash in oil by 2030. Oil companies have ramped up production. Demand…