Blowout Week 142
In this week's bumper blowout: Hinkley Point C finally gets green light; KEPCO close to investing in new nuclear at Moorside; the oil at Gatwick Airport keeps on gushing; oil price tumbles as OPEC and...
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We kick off with the exaggerated reporting of blackout risks in the UK and follow up with: Trump gets busy rolling back US oil & gas regulations; world oil and coal demand to peak by 2020; new UK...
View ArticleBlowout Week 171
We kick off with a look at the latest satellite based global average temperature measurements that show +0.19˚C in March warming compared with the 1981 to 2010 average temperature and follow up with...
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In this week’s Blowout we feature Donald Trump’s International Golf Links Scotland golf course, which by now should have been ringed by offshore wind turbines but isn’t. What went wrong? Follow-up...
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Which is the world’s largest energy company? Exxon? Shell? Neither; they come ninth and twenty-third. The winner? Russia’s Gazprom. Read all about it in this week’s feature story. Follow-up stories...
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Have you ever wondered how you are going to charge your EV during a blackout? This week’s feature story tells you. We continue with more US oil to Asia; the Israel-Italy natural gas pipeline; Chinese...
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There have been two major developments in the progress of UK nuclear new build in the last two weeks or so – the announcement that KEPCO is now preferred bidder for the Moorside project in Cumbria, and...
View ArticleBlowout Week 240
We begin with the $2.5 trillion battery. Then move on to OPEC; the oil tanker crisis; Kuwait fracks in Canada; Azerbaijan gas; Rio Tinto exits coal; Russia fuels its offshore nuclear plant; Moorside...
View ArticleBlowout Week 246
This week's lead story tells us where Germany and California would now be if they had spent all those billions on nuclear rather than renewables. I have not checked the calculations but the results...
View ArticleBlowout Week 254
For this week's feature story we stay in the UK, where plans for the Moorside nuclear power station have reportedly been scrapped now that Toshiba has pulled out of the project, leaving a "huge hole"...
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