Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tensions between the Trump administration and two of the world’s significant oil producers, Iran and Venezuela, in addition to the campaign of warlord Khalifa Haftar in Libya to take the capital of Libya (another oil state) have raised the prospects of tightening world oil production. Then a few days […]
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Energy
US hits milestone of 2 Million Home Solar Installations, to double by 2023
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just released a report showing that there are 2 million solar home installations in the United States. That is enough to power 12 million homes. (There are 127 million households in the US, and about 64% of Americans […]
The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!
Bolton: It will make a great difference to the US economically, if we could have US oil companies invest in and produce the oil in Venezuela.
The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It
All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good
Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris
Dubai will build the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project on a single site in the world
Florida PL’s Huge Solar Battery will make as much Electricity as half a Nuclear Plant
The batteries are now so cheap that it would actually save utilities money if they used them with solar farms compared to just going on on running old coal plants
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs
If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral
We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem
American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal
75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032
Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy
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