Energy News Beat The UK went from an industrial powerhouse to an economic backwater thanks to its shift to Net Zero Britain, the nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution, is now a world leader in deindustrialization. The power stations, oil refineries, and steelworks that helped make the UK wealthy are now closing down and moving […]
Energy News Beat Biden’s strong-arm tactics to force Americans to buy EVs have only stiffened consumer resolve not to purchase them. A strong case can be made that the worst thing that ever happened to the electric vehicle industry was Joe Biden. His strong-arm tactics to force Americans to buy battery-operated cars have only stiffened […]
Energy News Beat Chronic infrasound from wind turbines linked to blood vessel problems. German gov’t remains skeptical despite evidence. New research by Dr. Bellut-Staeck in the journal Medical Research and Its Applications suggests chronic infrasound exposure can lead to serious blood vessel problems. This underpins earlier literature that has reached similar conclusions. [emphasis, links added] […]
Energy News Beat Renewables like wind and solar increase fossil fuel demands, while rare earth minerals for EVs raise environmental and ethical concerns globally. In the transition to so-called clean and green electricity, critical minerals and metals bring new challenges to electricity security. [emphasis, links added] Solar plants, wind farms, and EVs generally require […]
Energy News Beat Hedge funds are betting against green sectors like solar and EVs, favoring fossil fuels as renewable energy struggles with high costs and unreliability. A little more than a year ago, a New York Times headline proclaimed what so many have said is absolutely, undeniably so: “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster […]
Energy News Beat Washington’s hands-off currency policy has produced a dominant dollar—and collateral damage at home and abroad. Review How the Dollar Became a Double-Edged Sword Washington’s hands-off currency policy has produced a dominant dollar—and collateral damage at home and abroad. By Carey K. Mott, a researcher at the Yale Program on Financial Stability […]
Energy News Beat [[{“value”:” The following commentary was written by Laura Sherman, president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. See our commentary guidelines for more information. Last year, Michigan got attention as the first Midwestern state to adopt an energy storage standard. Energy storage is essential for the clean energy transition because it allows clean electricity […]
Energy News Beat Since the previous Tory government introduced a windfall profit tax on the energy industry back in 2022, oil and gas output from the North Sea has declined by 10%. Instead of supporting the development of the country’s own energy resources, the Keir Starmer government is prioritizing the shift away from North Sea […]
Energy News Beat Oil prices are set to post a weekly gain as geopolitical uncertainty remains a central focus of oil traders, but a strong dollar and a large U.S. inventory build are holding Brent and WTI back. Friday, October 25th, 2024 The elevation of the Israel-Iran conflict into the main oil market narrative for October […]
Energy News Beat Lithium in a Smackover Formation could provide nine times the global demand for EV batteries The lithium deposits could be the key to U.S. battery production Lithium mining was extensive in North Carolina until the 1980s A lithium deposit located in southwestern Arkansas could hold enough of the metal to satisfy global EV battery […]
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