Businesses rarely gain from political instability so trying to predict unrest is a critical activity for any entity investing in a volatile corner of the world. One of the factors most often […]
Why blackouts are more common than ever, in two charts
Ten years after the 2003 meltdown, weather-related outages are on the rise. via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-blackouts-are-more-common-than-ever-in-two-charts/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed
How time-of-use pricing works to cut my power bills
You won’t hear the utilities say it, but with just a bit of attention to detail, TOU can save households money on electricity. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/how-time-of-use-pricing-works-to-cut-my-power-bills-99636?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-time-of-use-pricing-works-to-cut-my-power-bills-99636
Oil Prices and Boiling Frogs – Public Beginning to accept High Prices
Many readers will know about the claim that a frog plopped into boiling water will hop right back out if it can, while one put into cold water which is then slowly […]
China Wind Industry and Power Integration | The Energy Collective
Wind is China’s fastest growing renewable energy resource. In 2012, 13 gigawatts (GW) were added to the system, and incremental wind electricity production exceeded coal growth for the first time ever. In […]
Methane Leaks from Fracking are Much Worse than We Thought
A major new study in Geophysical Research Letters by 19 researchers — primarily from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) — shows that the natural gas fields […]
Sky’s the Limit – Aviation Biofuels About to Take Off?
For the past decade, commercial production of jet biofuel has become of major interest to international airlines.Renewable Jet A-1 biofuel has two alluring aspects.First, it is a “drop in” fuel – blended […]
Tech Talk – A Cautionary Tale Evolves over Shale Gas
The development of the shale gas deposits in the United States, led by the drilling and fracking of horizontal wells into the Barnett Shale of Texas at the turn of the century, […]
Tech Talk – Oil Supply, Oil Prices and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
via Bit Tooth Energy http://bittooth.blogspot.com/2013/08/tech-talk-oil-supply-oil-prices-and.html
100% of new Australian power plants are wind or solar
All new electricity generation proposals received in the last 12 months have been either for large scale wind farms or solar facilities. But rooftop solar continues to dominate and the energy market […]
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