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Research, analysis and opinion on the ongoing energy transition. Writing about it at: https://powering-the-planet.ghost.io
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"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Y'all notice they're rounding up most of these "freeloading" immigrants AT WORK???!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 184 comments

8 months ago I wrote this. "The oil industry has no other plan for its waste other than injecting it in the ground. Well, that isn't really true. Now in Texas they want to just dump it in the rivers." And now, today, that is the law in TX.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

This is from the NYTimes. "How many times as a journalist have I been reading a 200-page court ruling, and I want to know where in this ruling does the judge mention this particular piece of evidence?" They claim they need AI for this. Do they not know about the "command F" search function?

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

It is reasonable to ask, "how could Elon Musk just set up a bunch of gas turbines and start polluting with no permits?" This is how: "stationary gas-burning turbines can operate in the same location for 364 days before a permit is required." No permits required...for a year.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

I think the new methane messaging should be "reduce your methane emissions or we unleash the spiders".

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

"Renewable power like solar and onshore wind is the least expensive and quickest power generation source to deploy in the United States, even without government subsidies" Least expensive. Quickest. Without government subsidies. I'd bet on that combo.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org summarizes some of the points on oil demand from the IEA. Annual growth "slows to a trickle." Meanwhile, also this week. OPEC makes a wildly different prediction and Reuters reports it without mentioning that OPEC's predictions have been fantasy for a while.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Are investors figuring out the future? Will global conflicts over oil now drive up renewable stocks instead of oil companies?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The WSJ didn't include the reason in their headline. Must not have had space. I fixed it.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In related news. yournews.com/2025/06/14/3...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why is the oil price not surging with a major war in the Middle East? Any guesses? This FT piece makes some attempts to explain but somehow does not mention global oil glut, the rise of EVs and demand destruction or any of the factors that are causing, "this time to be different."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"Rather than adopting LNG as a 'bridge fuel' in the power sector, India does not plan to build new gas-fired power capacity through 2032 and is instead leapfrogging to cheaper forms of renewable energy." Simple economics. Simple math.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Not that the gas industry or politicians have ever cared much about the science or facts regarding LNG emissions but with the Trump admin telling the industry they won't be regulated, the amount of self-deception/lying required to say US LNG is clean energy will be greater.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Need a good sunrise palate cleanser to start the week.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Fracked sources - the most polluting kind." That would be US gas. The stuff the EU is claiming they are going to call clean so they can import it. If you want to see what sort of radical activist made this statement, check out Hannah's full thread.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 5 days ago • 192 comments

One reason I'm on Blueksky is I get to read smart people like this. I've never once wondered what Mark Cuban thought about anything and I've never heard of these other people who say they don't like it here.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Methane a potent greenhouse gas but .... Oil and Gas Lobby Escalates Global Campaign Against Methane Regulations via @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis influencemap.org/briefing/Met...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

submitted 4 days ago • 225 comments

Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide. Renewable energy prices were unaffected. Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs? If not, you have options.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments