Energy

A comprehensive look by TOMAS PUEYO This article will convince you of that nuclear is the best source of energy.¹ Don’t read it if you need your mind to remain anti-nuclear. If you are against nuclear,…

This bipartisan proposed legislation would expedite geothermal development by amending the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow for a new categorical exclusion for geothermal under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

The Dixie Valley toad’s dependence on the hot springs is also its greatest vulnerability. Since 2007, Ormat Technologies, an Israeli renewables company, has had plans to build a geothermal plant that could disrupt the very springs the toads rely on … but provide electricity for 44,000 homes.

Climate change is a very real challenge with very real negative impacts. But it is solvable, and by solving it, we unlock the next phase of civilization’s growth. Human history is the history of unlocking new energy sources to fuel new stages of civilization. If you squint, human history looks like a big, long game called ENERGY.

The devices can heat and cool homes more efficiently than furnaces and air-conditioners, but their sales have slowed because of higher interest rates and a slow rollout of federal incentives.

Forecast downturn still ‘nowhere near steep enough’ to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, says watchdog.

The world’s demand for oil, gas and coal will begin to decline this decade in “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, according to the global energy watchdog. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has projected for the first time that fossil fuel consumption will peak before 2030 and fall into permanent decline as climate policies take effect.

The United States has enough geothermal energy to power the entire country. Some are trying to unlock it by using techniques from the fracking boom.

Note: CCL’s Nuclear Energy Action Team monitors new “4th generation” projects and supports adding safe nuclear capacity capable of providing “baseload” when solar and wind aren’t producing.

Support for nuclear power, by both governments and the public, has increased significantly over the last few years. Below is a compilation of recent stories that give specific examples:

Note: This Wall Street Journal article concludes that the future of renewables is still bright. But recent policies that make it harder and more costly to import solar panels [from China and Germany] add costs. “Rising interest rates, labor costs and delays in permitting or getting projects hooked up to the power grid have made building solar and wind projects more expensive.”

A similar energy transition is already well underway in Europe and elsewhere. But the United States is catching up, and globally, change is happening at a pace that is surprising even the experts who track it closely. Wind and solar power are breaking records, and renewables are now expected to overtake coal by 2025 as the world’s largest source of electricity.

One look at your energy bills this winter might have convinced you that the 1950s idea that electricity would, in the near future, become “too cheap to meter” was not so much a false promise as a sick joke. That over-excited claim was prompted by hopes that nuclear fusion – the process