"The big lesson from this year’s energy crisis is that Europe’s vulnerabilities were a choice, not an inevitability. Rather than learning from that mistake, German politicians have chosen to repeat it."
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America needs to trust energy innovators more than regulators
"West Virginia vs. EPA should signal a time for Congress to reassert its authority and provide the policy foundation for innovators to meet our energy needs and mitigate the risk of global climate change."
Can AI Predict If Your House Is Going To Burn To The Ground?
Cyrus Farivar and Alex Knapp of Forbes write about a tech platform that is looking to prevent damage from extreme weather events. “His company has been gathering data and using it to train machine learning models to better assess risks caused by climate change, like wildfires, on behalf of its clients, mostly insurance companies.” Read...
A new fusion power station will mimic the Sun to provide limitless energy
"Aside from aiming to demonstrate the net production of 300 to 500 hundred megawatts of electricity, DEMO will also demonstrate new innovations such as remote maintenance and tritium breeding. Tritium breeding will allow operators to produce tritium fusion fuel on-site and will be a crucial component for commercial fusion operations in the future."
The Global Search for Energy Security
"Europe is reupping its already ambitious commitment to wind and solar, but it seems to recognize that those additions at scale take some time and solve only part of the problem. A transition to renewable energy and electric cars won’t happen without energy security, which, at least for the next several decades, necessitates access to a diverse and reliable array of energy sources."
Sorry, Biden, Gas Stations Can’t Just ‘Bring Down the Price’
Eric Boehm of Reason responds to President Biden’s request to gas station owners. “And those gas station owners aren’t raking in massive profits, either. Over the past five years, retailer gross margins have averaged 10.7 percent of the overall price of gas, according to NACS data. But most of those profits come from selling food, drinks,...
No Air Conditioning? No Thanks.
Rich Powell writes in RealClearEnergy about potential blackouts this summer. “A third thing that could have immediate and long term impact on stabilizing the American grid is to modernize permitting. Developers can only build more energy infrastructure as fast as they can permit the projects. Baseload renewable sources like hydropower and geothermal could see a...
A Warning From Australia’s Power Crisis
"The lesson for the U.S. is that a force-fed green transition invariably produces energy shortages, which then prompt calls for government intervention that often creates more market dysfunction."
Nuclear Energy Pact Advances US-Romania Partnership, but More Can Be Done
"For the United States, which in recent years has not played a major role in the construction of new nuclear plants overseas, energy diplomacy through small modular reactors presents an opportunity to renew and reshape its role in advancing nuclear energy abroad and at home."
Climate tech firm to launch scaled-up plant sucking CO2 from air
"The new 'Mammoth' plant will contain around 80 large blocks of fans and filters that suck in air and extract its CO2, which Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix then mixes with water and injects underground where a chemical reaction turns it to rock. The process will be powered by a nearby geothermal energy plant."
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