Big Lie: Wind turbines freezes Texas during massive winter storm
Frozen electricity infrastructure in Texas was due to cold weather, and bad maintenance, not wind turbines
Tag: Energy Security
SunSpec aims to help Veterans transition to clean energy jobs
SunSpec, the leading organization developing standards in the Solar industry, has launched an initiative aiming to train folks for jobs in the distributed energy resource (DER) sphere. Thanks to the decreasing cost of renewable energy systems, DER’s installation is apparently still increasing. Thanks to Internet-of-Things technology, renewable energy systems are…
Dept of Energy moving forward with energy storage research projects, doubling down on renewable energy
Solar power isn’t dead in the Trump Administration. Instead, the Dept of Energy announced last week that the 2020 SunShot cost reduction goals were met, and therefore the focus of the Solar Energy Technologies Office would shift to longer-term goals such as Grid Reliability and Energy Storage. “With the impressive…
Qatar/Iran natural gas field, Syria’s civil war and the refugee crisis
Syria’s fossil fuel resources are dwindling fast, making that country an unattractive place to fight a war over crude oil supplies. Yet, a war is being fought over the future of Syria, and a side effect of that war is the huge refugee crisis in Europe. Earlier I’ve made the case…
Europe/GAZPROM sign natural gas deal, cementing dominance by Russian fossil fuel supply
Russia and Europe just signed a pair of deals that will bolster Russia’s presence in and influence over Europe. One deal is an asset swap with chemicals giant BASF that had earlier been delayed because of political pressure, and the other is an expansion of the NORD STREAM gas pipeline…
NCES 5.0: Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Addresses National Clean Energy Summit about National Energy Security
FedEx CEO Fred Smith discusses foreign oil dependence significant threat to national and economic security at the National Clean Energy Summit, stating, “The United States oil dependence on imported petroleum — after weapons of mass destruction and terrorism — is our greatest single national risk.” After emphasizing the economic, military,…
Chevron relinquishes fracking in Romania, as part of broader pull-out from Eastern European fracking operations
A year ago I made several posts about Chevron’s plans to begin fracking operations in Romania’s portion of Moldova. News surfaced on Friday that Chevron has relinquished interests in drilling frackable shale fields in Romania (and other countries), completely ending all of Chevron’s work on shale gas fracking in Eastern…
Florida’s cleaner electricity from high efficiency power plant preserves fossil fuel addiction
Florida Power and Light (FPL) is taking delivery of the third of three Siemens ultra-high-efficiency natural gas turbines for FPL’s Port Everglades Next Generation Clean Energy Center. The Siemens SGT6-8000H gas turbines and Siemens SST6-5000 steam turbine at the site are the core of FPL’s modernization of the Clean Energy Center.…
Obama pushing climate wrecking fossil fuels in Eastern Europe on day after big climate change announcement
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland walk to a bilateral meeting after posing for photos at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, June 3, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama just announced a massively great program to combat climate…
Was the Libya “war” done to give Western Oil Companies better access to Libya’s oil/gas resources?
Did President Obama really launch an illegal war? We know that Pres. Bush did (the invasion of Iraq), and that war was clearly about securing supplies of fossil oil so we can all keep driving. I saw the “Obama launched an illegal war” in one of those raving paranoid lunatic…
SunSpec aims to help Veterans transition to clean energy jobs
SunSpec, the leading organization developing standards in the Solar industry, has launched an initiative aiming to train folks for jobs in the distributed energy resource (DER) sphere. Thanks to the decreasing cost of renewable energy systems, DER’s installation is apparently still increasing. Thanks to Internet-of-Things technology, renewable energy systems are…
Dept of Energy moving forward with energy storage research projects, doubling down on renewable energy
Solar power isn’t dead in the Trump Administration. Instead, the Dept of Energy announced last week that the 2020 SunShot cost reduction goals were met, and therefore the focus of the Solar Energy Technologies Office would shift to longer-term goals such as Grid Reliability and Energy Storage. “With the impressive…
Qatar/Iran natural gas field, Syria’s civil war and the refugee crisis
Syria’s fossil fuel resources are dwindling fast, making that country an unattractive place to fight a war over crude oil supplies. Yet, a war is being fought over the future of Syria, and a side effect of that war is the huge refugee crisis in Europe. Earlier I’ve made the case…
Europe/GAZPROM sign natural gas deal, cementing dominance by Russian fossil fuel supply
Russia and Europe just signed a pair of deals that will bolster Russia’s presence in and influence over Europe. One deal is an asset swap with chemicals giant BASF that had earlier been delayed because of political pressure, and the other is an expansion of the NORD STREAM gas pipeline…
NCES 5.0: Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Addresses National Clean Energy Summit about National Energy Security
FedEx CEO Fred Smith discusses foreign oil dependence significant threat to national and economic security at the National Clean Energy Summit, stating, “The United States oil dependence on imported petroleum — after weapons of mass destruction and terrorism — is our greatest single national risk.” After emphasizing the economic, military,…
Chevron relinquishes fracking in Romania, as part of broader pull-out from Eastern European fracking operations
A year ago I made several posts about Chevron’s plans to begin fracking operations in Romania’s portion of Moldova. News surfaced on Friday that Chevron has relinquished interests in drilling frackable shale fields in Romania (and other countries), completely ending all of Chevron’s work on shale gas fracking in Eastern…
Florida’s cleaner electricity from high efficiency power plant preserves fossil fuel addiction
Florida Power and Light (FPL) is taking delivery of the third of three Siemens ultra-high-efficiency natural gas turbines for FPL’s Port Everglades Next Generation Clean Energy Center. The Siemens SGT6-8000H gas turbines and Siemens SST6-5000 steam turbine at the site are the core of FPL’s modernization of the Clean Energy Center.…
Obama pushing climate wrecking fossil fuels in Eastern Europe on day after big climate change announcement
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland walk to a bilateral meeting after posing for photos at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, June 3, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama just announced a massively great program to combat climate…
Was the Libya “war” done to give Western Oil Companies better access to Libya’s oil/gas resources?
Did President Obama really launch an illegal war? We know that Pres. Bush did (the invasion of Iraq), and that war was clearly about securing supplies of fossil oil so we can all keep driving. I saw the “Obama launched an illegal war” in one of those raving paranoid lunatic…
