Category: Climate change
Ultra-Deep Geothermal Drilling & The Rise Of Black Swan Risks
Deep drilling isn’t optional for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), it’s the whole point. To understand why, think of the Earth’s crust as a hot soup. Near the surface, it’s merely lukewarm, barely useful beyond warming your house if you’re lucky. Go deeper, however, and temperatures rise rapidly, roughly 25 to … [continued]
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Simon Michaux’s Purple Delusion: The Pseudoscience of Doom
Simon Michaux has built a reputation on painting an apocalyptic vision of the energy transition, but his work consistently collapses under scrutiny. I’ve personally taken apart his comically bad lithium supply projections and his metal demand doomsday scenarios, and each time, the pattern is the same — wild extrapolations that … [continued]
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Startup Introduces New Climate Change Tool For Rural Electric Cooperatives
Rural electric cooperatives are among the utilities that can benefit from low cost, AI-enabled guidance on strategic responses to climate change.
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Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Is Not A Zero Emissions Fuel
The idea that hydrogen is a “zero-emissions” energy source is one of those claims that sounds great in a press release but crumbles under scrutiny. Sure, when you burn hydrogen or use it in a fuel cell, there’s no CO₂ spewing out the tailpipe. That much is true. But this … [continued]
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Federal appeals court hears ongoing Line 5 case over pipeline in Straits of Mackinac
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard from Canadian company Enbridge and the state of Michigan on the state’s effort to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5.