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The report from the liberal Center for American Progress is the first to broadly examine the environmental consequences of a big shift in U.S. oil trade policy, coming as Congress nears a […]

Professor Stuart Licht has invented a process that can essentially make airplanes and wind turbines out of thin air. Licht, a chemistry professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., has designed […]

Months after a landmark carbon capture project in Illinois was scrapped after losing government funding, the builder of America’s first commercial-scale clean coal project in Kemper County, Mississippi is facing financial troubles […]

Methane is less common in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but 86 times more potent in its ability to trap heat. The post How The EPA Plans To Cut Methane Emissions From […]

We’ve heard of "grid parity", but what happens when the cost of local generation falls below the cost of the network? It’s called "God Parity", and it’s when centralised generation doesn’t have […]

Electric vehicle sales have been growing steadily in Europe, while sales have faltered in the U.S. According to Renault Z.E., which tracks electric vehicle sales across Europe, all-electric vehicle sales in the […]

E&P companies have added 30 horizontal rigs in the Permian basin since the end of June. Most analysts didn’t notice (Figure1).Figure 1. Tight oil horizontal rig counts since January 1, 2015. Source: […]

The Bakken Production Statistics and the ND Production Statistics with June production numbers has been published.(Click to enlarge)Bakken production was up by 10,887 barrels per day to 1,152,455 BPD while all North […]

Market fundamentalists tell us that prices convey information. Yet, while our barbers and hairdressers might be able to give us an extended account of why their prices have changed in the last […]