Energy
Can Safer Fuel Power A Nuclear Energy Boom?
ByAlan Ohnsman,
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Gas And Diesel Prices On Track For Their Most Expensive August Ever
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Gas and Diesel prices are at record highs for the month of August, and relief is not expected anytime soon as global refining capacity shrinks due to the wars.
Wright Finds ‘Tremendous’ US Oil Company Interest In Venezuela
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Venezuelan Immigrants More Valuable For America Than Venezuela’s Oil
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Some Venezuelan Oil Is Cheap And Low-Risk
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US Partners Venezuela In Massive Oil Deal—Could This Happen In Iran.
The oil experiment in Venezuela is about to be tested. If it works, and new oil revenue benefits both countries, could Iran be next?
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America's Gas Boom Has Two Buyers, One Pipeline
America's natural gas boom has two buyers—AI data centers at home and allies abroad—but they're not fighting over the same barrel. Here's what they're really racing for.
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The Heat Pump Story: How Modern Systems Have Advanced Over The Years
Heat pumps can be an excellent heating solution after ensuring proper system selection and design and installation practices.
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Strengthening Tropical Storm Edouard On The Verge Of U.S. Landfall
Tropical Storm Edouard is getting stronger and will make landfall near the Texas - Louisiana border today. It could even briefly become a hurricane.
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Canada Trade War Puts New York’s Hydro Power At Risk
New York's reliance on Canadian hydropower faces new uncertainty as U.S.-Canada trade tensions raise questions about long-term energy security.
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Can Safer Fuel Power A Nuclear Energy Boom?
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how human-caused climate change is making El Niño stronger and growing demand for community solar projects
ByAlan Ohnsman,
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Is Consumer-Regulated Energy A Solution For Pennsylvania Data Centers?
Pennsylvania faces higher electricity costs due to the growth of data centers while keeping regulated utilities from competing to build new power plants.
ByEd Hirs,
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Middle East’s Energy Leaders Up Investments In Natural Gas Resilience
Energy leaders in the Middle East have been shifting their attention as well as petrodollars to natural gas in recent years. The Iran War has accelerated this drive.
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Iran Sanctions: Operation Economic Outcast Auctions Dollar Access
Operation Economic Outcast's first bank action is a proposed rule on an Egyptian lender's foreign unit. The campaign auctions dollar access.
ByGüney Yıldız,
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The U.S. Takes Control Of Venezuelan Oil—Sort Of
The announced deal with Venezuela could be fruitful, but political risk remains.
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What US-Venezuela Oil Deal Is — And Is Not — About
The US-Venezuela oil deal won't immediately lower prices for crude oil and gas at the pump. Here's how it will play out over decades.
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How To Manipulate The Oil Market For Profit
How advance knowledge of presidential oil announcements could create profitable trading advantages, using Trump's Venezuela oil deal as a revealing market case study.
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This Startup Is Building Superconducting Satellite Motors
Superconducting satellites. Progress in nuclear fusion. Why performative AI is overrated. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
ByAlex Knapp,
Senior Editor
Carney Took Canada Off The Menu. Now, He Needs To Build A Bigger Table
Will the United States-Canada trade war unite middle power countries and drive the beginning of a new world order?
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Heat Waves Hit The Grid's Supply, Not Just Your AC Bill
Extreme heat simultaneously boosts electricity demand and cuts supply, as power generation heavily relies on water.
ByAnna Demeo,
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Washington Tried To Save Coal But Natural Gas Had Other Ideas
Why cheap natural gas from Texas and Louisiana is undercutting coal—and showing that market forces can overpower Washington’s energy policy.
ByDan Eberhart,
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Canada/USA Standoff Highlights Enbridge Line 5 Importance
U.S.-Canada trade tensions put Enbridge Line 5 in the spotlight, exposing how energy infrastructure can become a leverage point in a growing dispute.
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