Matt Yglesias (slowboring.com) offers a very useful discussion about the interaction of oil prices, gas taxes, investment and the politics involvred. I learned a LOT of things I didn’t know here. Eco-economics at its best!
A company called Quaise raised $63m to deploy, next year, a laser drill that can bore more than 12.4 miles (20 km) into the Earth’s crust. This article has incredible some stats on what this might do for GT energy!
Lithium-sulfur batteries promises a 5-fold increase in energy density over lithium-ion batteries.
A novel method of recycling such batteries could help meet skyrocketing demand.
New tech (and great pix) explain using heat difference a few meters down to heat/cool buildings and a few kilometers down to generate electricity. Goal: net-zero buildings
Uptick is an “anomaly” driven by high natural gas prices. Shows the power of price / market incentives!
A clean energy revolution will hinge on getting mining right. Northern Nevada is epicenter of the US issue.
Interest data on deaths from various energy sources from Scott Galloway’s column predicting that nuclear technology will take off in 2022.
Helion Energy plans to use the $500 million to complete the construction of Polaris, its 7th generation fusion facility and achieve target “net electricity production” in 2024.
Here are stats — market cap and barrels per day pumped — of the top 20 oil companies in the world.
Study shows that GHGs from making “blue hydrogen” (made from methane) is more than just burning the methane. “Green hydrogen” (from solar-powered electrolysis of water) is clean, but still too expensive.
The world must act swiftly on another powerful greenhouse gas, methane, to halt the rise in global temperatures, experts warned.
