• Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population
  • Why Solar Power Is Failing Amid Record-Breaking Heat
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    With heatwaves being reported worldwide, leading to wildfires and other environmental concerns, at least one energy sector is getting attention for its major producing potential – solar power. But with solar panels collecting energy from...
  • Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Simulations suggest that Earth could theoretically host two more moons the size of the one we've got now, or several smaller moons
  • A New Atomic Age? Bipartisan Interest In Nuclear Energy Growing Amid Rising Energy Demand
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Forbes - Energy
    With rising energy demand and concerns about stress on the power grid, many are increasingly eyeing nuclear power, including as-yet unperfected fusion, as a clean solution.
  • Colombia’s New Leftwing President Is Hiking Taxes On Its Oil Industry
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    After an electoral victory, which shocked many in and outside of Colombia, long-time senator and former leftist guerilla Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s President last Sunday. The once controversial mayor of the capital...
  • Oil Prices Fall As Demand Concerns Persist
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Crude prices fell on Friday morning, erasing some gains as traders remain cautious to go long on crude again. August 12th,This week has been quite tumultuous in the oil markets, starting off with a pervasive feeling of demand gloom yet...
  • State Bank sells distressed KSK Mahanadi loans to Aditya Birla ARC for Rs 1,622 crore
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    This would be the single-largest distressed loan sale on an upfront payment basis by any bank, equating to a recovery of 42% for the bank. Aditya Birla ARC's bid was supported by its joint venture partner, Varde Partners.
  • The Most Overlooked Equity Market In The World Right Now
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    The value investor has become something of an endangered species over the last decade, pushed to the side-lines of a market fixated on seeking never-ending growth in areas such as technology. The underperformance of the value investment...
  • 3 takeaways from the Investing Club’s ‘Morning Meeting’ on Friday
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy
    The Club talks oil, Apple, Johnson & Johnson and other Club holdings.
  • Gulf Of Mexico Pipelines Could Restart Today
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Gulf of Mexico offshore oil producers are working to restart output after damages to a pipeline halted operations at seven platforms, with Reuters reporting that the pipeline could be replaced by the end of today. The Mars and Amberjack...
  • Major Petroleum Corridor At Risk Of Closure Due To Low Water Levels
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Europe’s supply of fuels such as coal and petroleum products faces further disruptions in the coming days as the water levels on the Rhine River—a key waterway for barge transportation – are expected to sink below the level of...
  • U.S. Drilling Activity Sees Decline For Second Straight Week
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    The number of total active drilling rigs in the United States fell by 1 this week, according to new data from Baker Hughes published on Friday. It is the second decline in as many weeks. The total rig count fell to 763 this week—262 rigs...
  • China Masters The Art Of Soft Power
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Like every other way we underestimate China, it would be remiss to underestimate Beijing’s changing oil strategy and supreme adaptability of its BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) lending fund, which is a phenomenal geopolitical tool. Now,...
  • Bullish Forecasts Support Crude Prices
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading lower on Friday, but are still in a position to finish higher for the week. Today’s move has nearly wiped out all of yesterday’s gains after renewed recession fears dampened an...
  • How To Play The Surge In Lithium Demand?
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    After the market closed yesterday, EV maker Rivian (RIVN) released earnings that seemed to confuse the market more than anything. The stock dropped, then jumped, then dropped again as traders digested the news. The company is struggling...
  • Clean Energy Stocks Are Shining
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we will take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy and metals sectors. Each week we’ll dig into some data and provide a bit of explanation on what...
  • PetroChina Threatens To Withdraw From Iraq
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict - PetroChina is allegedly threatening to pull up stakes in the southern Iraqi governorate of Maysan after another round of protests outside the oil company’s headquarters demanding improved services and...
  • Gulf Of Mexico Oil Outages Balloon Beyond Shell
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    At least two other oil majors shuttered their Gulf of Mexico platforms on Friday following a leak in the Fourchon booster station, shutting down the flow of crude through the Amberjack Pipelines. On Thursday, Shell halted production at...
  • Nord Stream Gas Flows Drop On Friday Afternoon
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Physical natural gas flows on the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany dropped to 13 million kWh/h on early Friday afternoon in Europe, data from Nord Stream showed. The flows were at 13 million kWh/h between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. CET...
  • Iran Signals That Latest Nuclear Deal Proposal Could Be ‘Acceptable’
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Iran considers that a European Union proposal for the restoration of the so-called nuclear deal could be "acceptable" if it provides assurances about the key demands of the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian diplomat was quoted as saying...
  • BP And Other Super-Majors: Last Twenty Years Clarifies Call For Windfall Profits Tax.
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Forbes - Energy
    A broader perspective suggests that any such tax should be based on longer-duration profit averages.
  • Monkeys in Bali use stones as sex toys to fill their leisure time
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Male and female macaques in a Balinese sanctuary commonly use stone tools to masturbate, possibly because they have more leisure time than wild primates
  • The Inflation Reduction Act Is No Oil Killer
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Forbes - Energy
    Democrats may be taking a victory lap, but let’s be straight, the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) pose no real threat to the U.S. oil and gas industry. The industry has Sen. Manchin, whose state of West Virginia...
  • UK fuel exports to Netherlands up by 67% in June, data shows
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    HMRC figures come as Europe rushes to bank supplies for winter in absence of Russian pipeline Energy exports from the UK to the Netherlands rocketed by 67% in June, official figures reveal, in the latest sign of Europe’s scramble to...
  • Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth in 2014. Now they want to mount a $1.6 million expedition to find fragments of it on the sea floor
  • ‘Energy bills have overtaken wages’: 280-year-old pub at risk of closure
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    The Faulkland Inn near Bath has come through recessions, wars and Covid but is being beaten by soaring costs When the Faulkland Inn first opened its doors, George II was on the throne and Britain was at war with Spain. Since then, the...
  • High energy usage firms in UK may get subsidies amid soaring costs
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Government plans would lower costs for 300 businesses in steel, cement, paper, ceramics and glass industries The UK government is considering plans to subsidise bills for energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement as companies...
  • Why the U.S. is struggling to modernize the electric grid
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy
    The overall duration of power interruptions in the U.S. more than doubled between 2015 and 2020.
  • Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Simulations show that a 1000-day mission to Mars would expose astronauts to radiation doses above 1 sievert, even with metal shielding
  • UK economy shrinks by 0.1% in second quarter as recession looms
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    ONS says two bank holidays to mark Queen’s jubilee contributed to fall in output in June Britain’s recovery from the pandemic stalled in the three months to June when the economy contracted by 0.1%, according to official figures that...
  • German energy giant RWE to burn extra coal as Russian gas supplies dwindle
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy
    Germany is recommissioning some of its coal-fired power plants in order to compensate for a lack of Russian gas.
  • Labour pledges to scrap ‘outrageous’ premium for energy prepayment meters
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says party would ensure nobody ‘pays over the odds’ for same gas and electricity Labour has said it would eliminate the “premium” that means people with energy prepayment meters, who are often on low...
  • SC issues notices to Centre, ONGC on appeal of Vedanta Ltd relating to Barmer oil field
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Vedanta Ltd has moved the top court against the March 26 judgement of a division bench of the Delhi High Court setting aside a single judge order directing the Centre to extend till 2030 its PSC with Vedanta Ltd and ONGC to produce oil...
  • Tiger 21, an exclusive club of investors, says the ultra rich are doubling down on stocks
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Energy
    Tiger 21 consists of 1,200 members with a cumulative $140 billion in assets, and individuals must have at least $20 million in liquid assets to qualify for membership.
  • Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    The risks of catching covid-19, or being vaccinated against it, during pregnancy have been debated throughout the pandemic, with research now overwhelmingly supporting that pregnant people get vaccinated
  • UK energy bills ‘set to cost two months’ wages’, ministers warned
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    TUC calls for October energy price cap rise to be cancelled as chancellor tells firms to invest ‘extraordinary profits’ Ministers have been warned that energy bills will cost more than two months’ wages next year unless new help is given...
  • US CO2 shortage worsened by contaminated gas from an extinct volcano
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    An extinct volcano’s underground reservoir in Mississippi has supplied CO2 to US beverage makers and food processing companies for decades. But natural contamination has exacerbated an ongoing CO2 shortage
  • Gas prices are falling — Here's why it's happening and whether it can continue
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Energy
    The national average for a gallon of gas dropped below $4 on Thursday for the first time since March. Is more relief coming?
  • Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    A 2021 experiment achieved the landmark milestone of nuclear fusion ignition, which data analysis has now confirmed – but attempts to recreate it over the last year haven’t been able to reach ignition again
  • Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Unlike people, 43 species of monkeys and apes are known to have so-called vocal membranes, which may prevent them from having precise voice control
  • Hovering robots could get more lift by 'treading water' in the air
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Moving like an insect may not be the most efficient way for tiny flying robots to hover – they get more lift by taking advantage of vortices of air that form under their wings
  • Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Twenty people who were legally blind or visually impaired received a transplant of a cornea made from pig collagen. All of them had improved sight, including three who now have 20/20 vision after being legally blind
  • Russian oil production falls less than 3% as sanctions have ‘limited’ effect
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    In July production was only 310,000 barrels a day below prewar levels, IEA finds Russian oil production has fallen by less than 3% since the invasion of Ukraine, with a swathe of western energy sanctions having only a “limited” effect,...
  • Britain is sliding towards an energy precipice. So where are its leaders? | Larry Elliott
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Gordon Brown’s solutions highlight a vacuum that extends beyond the Tories and to the party he once led It is a measure of Britain’s political vacuum that radical solutions to the energy crunch are being provided not by the prime...
  • Ethereum just pulled off its final test run ahead of one of the most important events in crypto
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Energy
    Ethereum is moving closer to adopting a proof-of-stake model for its network, which is less energy intensive than the existing proof-of-stake method.
  • Earnings season champs: Stocks that are increasingly profitable while others just scrape by
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Energy
    CNBC Pro analyzed the data to find companies that stood out this earnings season.
  • T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Some large, meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex had keyhole-shaped eye sockets, and reconstructions suggest this helped them bite with greater force
  • Why thinking hard for several hours can leave you mentally exhausted
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Prolonged concentration may cause a compound called glutamate - which can be harmful at high levels - to accumulate in regions at the front of the brain
  • Which energy firms met Boris Johnson – and how big are their profits?
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Vital statistics on power-generation firms suspected of having cashed in on high energy prices Boris Johnson met executives from some of Britain’s biggest energy companies on Thursday to discuss the cost of living crisis. Johnson was...
  • Boris Johnson warns energy firms soaring bills will damage sector
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    PM attends round table with power firms but no new measures agreed to ease pressure on households Latest politics news – live Boris Johnson has warned energy companies that sky-high bills will damage their business, speaking at a round...
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