Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Ontario Raises Electricity Price by 25% for Minnesota, Michigan and New York
March 10th, 2025Via: Bloomberg: A Canadian province that exports electricity to the US raised power prices for three states by 25% on Monday in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Ontario directed its grid operator, the Independent Electricity System Operator, to add a C$10 ($7) per megawatt-hour surcharge to all power exported to Minnesota, Michigan and New […]
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 1
March 6th, 2025While I’d suggest reading this piece—as more of a cautionary tale than a true account of what’s happening—it borders on bloviation. The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 1 Here’s a brief summary from Perplexity, which I wish I’d read instead of the whole piece: Here’s a two-page summary of the article “The Dark MAGA […]
Meta In Talks For $200 Billion Data Center Project That “Would Dwarf” All Of Its Other Projects
February 26th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Power and electrical equipment companies moved higher in early trading after The Information reported Tuesday evening that Meta Platforms is in discussions to build a new artificial intelligence data center campus that “would dwarf anything the company has done to date” and be the largest project of its kind, with costs potentially exceeding […]
AI Helping to Solve Fusion Energy
February 19th, 2025Via: MIT News: In a recent open-access paper titled “Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction,” published in the January issue of Nuclear Fusion, Howard explains how he used high-resolution simulations of the swirling structures present in plasma, called turbulence, to confirm that the world’s largest experimental fusion […]
Our World Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Spike in Electricity Demand
February 14th, 2025Via: The Register: The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an “unprecedented” spike in demand, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) – and it’s going to be a tough goal to meet. The IEA’s report examines the current state of the […]
DOGE Technologist and Thiel Fellow Luke Farritor
February 10th, 2025And now, Department of Energy: …listed as an engineer in the DOE’s staff directory… Hmm. Via: R&D World: Before he joined the White House’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 23-year-old engineer and former SpaceX software intern Luke Farritor was already making waves in digital archaeology. In 2023, he helped lead the Grand Prize-winning team […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
Aluminum Batteries
February 6th, 2025Via: IEEE Spectrum: Electric vehicles( EVs) and green energy sources rely heavily on batteries to store electricity. Currently, more than 75 percent of the world’s energy storage depends on batteries that contain lithium, an expensive mineral that’s subject to volatile pricing. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries themselves can be volatile, too, because they use a flammable electrolyte […]
TRUMP IMPOSES 25% TARIFF ON IMPORTS FROM MEXICO AND CANADA, 10% ON IMPORTS FROM CHINA
January 31st, 2025Via: CNBC: In an apparent ending to weeks of intense speculation, the White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump will be leveling aggressive tariffs this weekend on major U.S. trading partners. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said Trump will be implementing 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada as well as a 10% […]
Salvatore Pais on Jesse Michels: “Maybe We Need a Common Enemy, from the Outside”
January 24th, 2025Is anyone keeping track of the number of current black world personnel who are prepping the public to accept some sort of alien invasion narrative? Someone blew a dog whistle and suddenly these people are coming out of the woodwork. Via: Jesse Michels:
