The ongoing collapse of the Cuban electrical grid is not a typical power outage that most countries experience but the result of decades-long systemic neglect, underinvestment and reliance on obsolete technologies. Most Cuban power plants were built in the seventies and were expected to last 20 or 30 years. However, they are long overdue for … Read more
“Everybody is afraid of these environmental groups and the fear that it may look wrong if you fight back with these people, but what they did to us is wrong, and they’re gonna pay for it.” The speaker is Kelcy Warren. He runs Energy Transfer, which moves so-called fossil fuels from one part of the … Read more
According to the Wall Street Journal, government inefficiency makes so–called green energy needlessly expensive. On the other hand, the New York Times examined solar power only five days later and inquired optimistically, “What Will We Do With Our Free Power?” So, will the “Green New Deal” bring us limitless, almost free energy, or is it … Read more
California’s leftist legislature will now have the power to regulate the gasoline sales profits of the state’s oil refiners. Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law allowing the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a state gross gasoline refining profit margin and impose penalties for surpassing it. Chevron, the state’s biggest oil refiner, criticized … Read more
Imagine getting electricity from the earth’s core with no pollution. Everyone, especially environmentalists, should be happy. Southern California Edison, one of America’s major power companies, recently struck a deal with a seven-year-old start-up called Fervo Energy. Unlike traditional methods of producing electricity, Fervo utilizes hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to tap into the earth’s limitless source of … Read more
Middle-class households feel the pinch of rising costs associated with environmental regulations that impose additional taxes and stringent penalties for not towing the “green line.” In Paris, for instance, if a building is old and fails an energy efficiency assessment, it can result in substantial financial burdens. Owners of thermally inefficient homes must conduct an … Read more
Green energy initiatives often generate bright, hopeful narratives of a cleaner, more sustainable future. They also give rise to a dark, tragic side when unintended consequences appear. One such case is the creation of great demand for metals and special materials that leads to surges in ‘green’ crime. Theft of these materials is driving costs … Read more
Perhaps no industry is more inherently prone to gigantism than energy production. Locating the raw materials, be they coal, oil or natural gas, is speculative and expensive. Refining and transporting those raw materials makes them even more costly. Turning them into electric power requires massive boilers and other machinery. Then, distributing this energy to a … Read more
About twenty years ago, a neighbor related a story from his youth on a farm in Missouri during the early thirties. The family’s only source of electricity was a windmill that recharged a battery. When the wind blew steadily through the day, the battery got enough power for three hours of radio and one electric … Read more
Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing the geopolitics of the world. The delicate situation calls for agility and improvising to adjust to a crisis that could quickly become ugly. The Biden Administration and Western Europe have imposed sanctions as part of a strategy to end the war. However, the Administration is also applying “sanctions” upon … Read more
