Multnomah County, which encompasses much of the city of Portland, Oregon, unanimously approved a resolution last week that will make all new county buildings — libraries, courthouses and community centers — free of fossil fuels. Basically this means that new county buildings will no longer pipe fossil (aka “natural”) gas into them and instead rely
Month: April 2021
An engineer working at a power plant Witthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images Analysts at Morgan Stanley have picked global oil stocks that they believe are set to outperform the wider market in the next 12 months. While U.S. oil firms have generally done better than the European majors in 2021, firms in Europe
Petronas LNG Ltd. has announced that it has signed a deal for three newbuild LNG vessels with shipowner Hyundai LNG Shipping (HLS). As part of the deal, HLS has signed shipbuilding contracts with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of the three vessels. Upon completion, the vessels will be among the most energy efficient
By Eric Ralph Posted on April 30, 2021 Right in the nick of time for a high-altitude flight test scheduled as early as Friday, April 30th, SpaceX has secured an FAA license to launch Starship prototype SN15 and simultaneously received an FCC permit to operate a Starlink dish installed on the rocket. The two-month FCC
Elon Musk is still hyping the upcoming release of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta and now claims that Tesla Autopilot/Full Self-Driving Beta are already ‘superhuman’ on the highway and getting close on city streets. The new FSD also comes with new visualizations. Over the last few months, CEO Elon Musk has been talking about Tesla moving
Marin Tomas | Moment | Getty Images The number of electric cars, buses, vans and heavy trucks on roads is expected to hit 145 million by 2030, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday. According to the IEA’s Global Electric Vehicle Outlook, if governments ramp up their efforts to meet international energy and climate goals,
Rising penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE) in power systems are expected to increase curtailment — the reduction of renewable energy delivered due to oversupply or lack of system flexibility. But while curtailment may be the new normal in the evolving grid, and can even be managed in a way that makes the grid more
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) participate in a news conference about the Senate vote on methane regulation outside of the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Sarah Silbiger | Getty Images The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to reverse former President Donald Trump‘s
McDermott International Ltd announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Michelin Group in France for “the first industrialization of an innovative plastic recycling process to produce regenerated styrene from polystyrene”. The regenerated styrene produced will be used in the production of synthetic rubber for tires and polystyrene,
By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 29, 2021 It appears that Tesla is conducting some benchmark testing on one of the world’s most aggressive and powerful pickup trucks today. Based on recent images and footage from the Fremont Factory, Tesla is putting what appears to be a RAM 1500 TRX through the paces at its
In this article SHLX A logo at a Royal Dutch Shell Plc gas station in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Peter Boer | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday reported marginally better-than-expected first-quarter earnings, amid stronger commodity prices and growing expectations of a fuel demand recovery.
With snow-capped mountains, shimmering lakes and vast swathes of verdant forest, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, does not lack for natural beauty. In waters off its coastline, one project is attempting to harness nature’s power by testing and analyzing wave energy converters, a technology which could have an important role to
In a previous article, I covered a recipe Elon Musk gave us for powering the world with renewables. He gave the overall plan, but obviously couldn’t give full details on the plan at the local level. During another part of the Q1 earnings call, he gave a lot more detail on how the local level
Oil tanks at an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Stanislav Krasilnikov | TASS via Getty Images Saudi Arabia is in talks to sell 1% of state-backed oil giant Saudi Aramco to a “leading global energy company,” the kingdom’s crown prince told
(Bloomberg) — Oil climbed by the most in nearly two weeks with the OPEC+ alliance and BP Plc pointing to signs of a robust demand recovery taking shape in parts of the world. Futures in New York jumped 1.7% on Tuesday. An OPEC+ committee decided this week to move forward with a planned gradual crude production increase,
By Eric Ralph Posted on April 28, 2021 After taking a roughly two-week break to focus on Crew Dragon’s third astronaut launch, SpaceX is ready to get back to its regular programming of rapid-fire Starlink, Cargo Dragon, and commercial satellite launches. Kicking off what is setting up to be a jam-packed ten weeks of launches,
New York will join the list of states signaling an end to new gas vehicle sales, as a bill banning their sale after 2035 has advanced through the legislature. It now heads to the governor’s desk where it is expected to be signed. This bill makes New York State the second US state to pass
In the recent Tesla 1st quarter earnings call, an investor asked about whether “vampire drain” in lithium-ion batteries prevents seasonal energy storage from this medium. This led to a much wider explanation of the topic by Elon Musk. Bottom line: Elon Musk believes that current technology can power the world with renewables, and he gave
(Bloomberg) — Oil climbed in Asia with OPEC+ projecting a strong global recovery this year, even as a Covid-19 flare-up in India and other nations dragged on the near-term demand outlook. Futures in New York rose above $62 a barrel after slipping 0.4% on Monday. An OPEC+ technical committee raised its forecast for demand growth
By Eric Ralph Posted on April 27, 2021 Amid a major hiring push and calls for monthly launches, SpaceX has taken its latest step towards launching Starlink satellites from the West Coast with a lease for rocket recovery ship dock space at the Port of Long Beach. News of the port lease broke on April
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