ISIS Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists
Oil is the black gold that funds Isis’ black flag — it fuels its war machine, provides electricity and gives the fanatical jihadis critical leverage against their neighbors.
Archive for year: 2015
Climate change will be an economic disaster for rich and poor, new study says
The new paper by Solomon M. Hsiang and Edward Miguel of Berkeley and Marshall Burke of Stanford suggests that rich countries aren’t immune from the economic hit, as others have postulated.
VW diesel scandal puts focus on other alt-fuel tech
Technologies that combine electricity with traditional engines are becoming commonplace. Within a few years, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an engine that doesn’t shut off when you’re idling at a stop light, recapture energy from braking and get an battery-assisted boost for passing.
Toyota predicts a non-gasoline future
Toyota threw in its lot with the alternative vehicle crowd when it predicted that gasoline and diesel engines will be virtually extinct by 2050. Kiyotaka Ise, senior managing officer of the world’s best-selling automaker, said that gas-electric hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel-cell vehicles and electric cars will account for most of its auto sales by mid-century.
Climate change could soon push Persian Gulf temperatures to lethal extremes, report warns
Rising global temperatures could soon push the sun-baked cities of the Persian Gulf across a threshold unknown since the start of civilization: the first to experience temperatures that are literally too hot for human survival.
After years of decline, U.S. oil imports rise
U.S. imports of foreign oil are rising again after a long decline, as the oil bust forces domestic producers to scale back.
It’s undeniable: Climate change made Hurricane Patricia worse
How did Patricia get to be so strong? The answer, quite simply, involves human-caused climate change.
Exxon sowed doubt about climate science for decades by stressing uncertainty
Collaborating with the Bush-Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion.
America’s biggest shale gas field is choking on its own supply
Output from the Marcellus basin in Pennsylvania and West Virginia is faltering as pipeline capacity fails to keep up with the surge in production. While space on Appalachian pipelines has more than doubled this year, it hasn’t been enough to keep the flow moving freely.
MIT researchers: ‘Methanol is a viable transportation fuel’
A team of MIT scientists has completed a study of using methanol as a gasoline substitute, and they’ve concluded that “methanol is a viable transportation fuel.”
