With wages increasing and strikes engulfing the country, the massive cheap labor force that has helped fuel China’s economic boom by underselling its competitors may be coming to an end, reports suggest. […]
The Problems with a Growing Population
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available broadly on the internet, […]
The Era of Cheap Gasoline is Over
Motor group AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline for Wednesday was $3.50, down more than 30 cents from the same time last year. Refiners are starting […]
Discontinuity Ahead – Oil Limits will Adversely Affect the Economy
What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking at the past, assuming that past tends […]
Return of the steam engine: cheap storage for solar
A group of Australian engineers has ‘re-invented’ the steam engine and combined it with solar thermal energy to deliver a cheap solar storage solution. What’s more, it works on the distributed level, […]
‘The Bottom Has Just Dropped Out Of The Market’: Government’s Latest Coal Auction Attracts Lowest Bid In 15 Years
The bad news keeps coming for coal. The post ‘The Bottom Has Just Dropped Out Of The Market’: Government’s Latest Coal Auction Attracts Lowest Bid In 15 Years appeared first on ThinkProgress. […]
Measuring Methane Leaks from Natural Gas Drilling
There has been a lot of cross-talk over the last couple of years about how much methane leaks from the natural gas production and distribution system. Most of what has been said […]
Study: Battery Energy Storage Works For Solar But Not Wind
Everyone knows energy storage is the key to unlocking renewable energy’s full potential, right? Well, not always. Utility-scale batteries make sense for storage from large solar power systems, but not wind farms, […]
LNG Exports First Step to Depoliticizing Global Oil Market
US manufacturer’s sounded alarm bells last week with the approval of a fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, this time on the East coast at Cove Point Maryland. At issue is […]
More Wind Means Less Baseload Generation
Score one for wind power. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, wind is helping to cut the need for baseload power in a big chunk of the country . The government’s official energy analysts said the […]