energy

Big Solar: Where Do Large Solar Power Plants Pay Off?

Big Solar: Where Do Large Solar Power Plants Pay Off?

By Gero Rueter Solar energy has become extremely cheap. In the desert of Saudi Arabia electricity from solar modules is now generated for just $0.01 (€0.009) per kilowatt hour (kWh), and in Portugal for $0.014 cents per kWh. An increasing number of large solar parks are being built across the globe to help solve the […]

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    Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price

    Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price

    By Chris McGreal After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation […]

    The True Cost of Cryptocurrency

    The True Cost of Cryptocurrency

    Amidst the loud hum of computers, digital gold is born. Churning and churning, hundreds of computers mine for a new form of currency. One that professes to be the decentralized, deflationary disruptor of the modern banking system. It goes by many names, DogeCoin, VibuCoin, Etherium, and Bitcoin. But they all can be called cryptocurrencies. This […]

    12 Ways to Save Energy at Home

    12 Ways to Save Energy at Home

    Flipping the light switch is a great start, but a little more can go a long way for saving energy at home. The unearthing, processing, transportation, and burning of fracked gas, coal, and crude oil for energy has devastating consequences for ecosystems, human health, and our global climate. With 80% of all energy consumed in […]

    Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Drives Panic at the Pumps in South

    Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Drives Panic at the Pumps in South

    Long lines of drivers waited at gas stations across the South yesterday — except for the stations that had already run out of gas — as the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline caused panic buying and chaos. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the “crunch” in the Southeast will take several days to alleviate and that […]

    Fracking 101: What You Should Know

    Fracking 101: What You Should Know

    What is fracking? Fracking is a process of blasting water, chemicals and frac sand deep into the earth to break up sedimentary rock and access natural gas and crude oil deposits. The fracking industry, which has sought to promote the practice as safe and controlled, has preferred the term “hydraulic fracturing.” Fracking emerged as an […]

    Cyberattack Shuts Down Major U.S. Pipeline

    Cyberattack Shuts Down Major U.S. Pipeline

    The largest U.S. fuel pipeline remains shut down following a massive ransomware cyberattack on Friday. The Colonial Pipeline, described by one analysis as “the jugular of the U.S. pipeline system,” carries gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from Texas to New Jersey and supplies fuel to much of the Southeast. The attack and shutdown underscore the […]

    Chernobyl Is Encouraging Educational Tourism 35 Years After Nuclear Disaster

    Chernobyl Is Encouraging Educational Tourism 35 Years After Nuclear Disaster

    Three-and-a-half decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Ukrainian officials are transforming the deserted Chernobyl exclusion zone into a monument that educates and warns tourists about the consequences of human error. On the night of April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and caught fire, sending radioactive material into […]

    Major Explosion Rocks Indonesian Oil Refinery

    Major Explosion Rocks Indonesian Oil Refinery

    A massive explosion at an oil refinery in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday injured about 20 people and forced nearly 1,000 to evacuate. It was still burning Tuesday morning, Eastern Time. The state-owned Pertamina Balongan Refinery has a capacity of about 125,000 barrels per day and supplies fuel to Jakarta, Banten and some parts […]