Why liquid metal batteries will soon be even cheaper
A new discovery could innovate an already innovative technology: liquid metal batteries.
Archive for year: 2016
One of oil’s founding families is divesting from fossil fuels, and slamming ExxonMobil in the process
The Rockefeller Family Fund—yes, those Rockefellers—just announced that it’s divesting from fossil fuels, saying “we must keep most of the already discovered reserves in the ground if there is any hope for human and natural ecosystems to survive and thrive in the decades ahead.”
The struggle of clear climate communication
There has never before been a scientific study quite like the one released this week by James Hansen, a climate scientist and the former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Here’s what it costs to drill a shale well these days
A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration found that average well drilling and completion costs last year had fallen 25 to 30 percent below 2012 prices – the high point of the last decade.
Gas prices will be low for Easter, but don’t get used to it
With gasoline prices at their lowest point for the Easter weekend since 2004, holiday travelers have something to cheer about. But they better fill up their tanks fast.
Coming to the oil patch: Bad loans to outnumber the good
Bad loans are likely to outnumber good ones soon in the U.S. oil patch, an indication of the pressure on energy companies and their lenders from the crash in prices.
Big Corn finds unlikely allies in U.S. biofuel push: carmakers and drivers
U.S. corn producers may have found two unlikely allies in their decade-long battle with big oil to get ethanol into the nation’s fuel stream: automobile manufacturers and American drivers.
Oil revenue collapse means ISIS reliant on Gulf funds, inquiry hears
A collapse in oil revenues available to Islamic State is likely to have made it increasingly dependent on donations from wealthy Gulf states and profits from foreign exchange markets, the first UK inquiry into the terror group’s funding has heard.
U.S. on track for record summer gasoline demand
The United States will probably consume a record amount of gasoline in 2016, passing the previous peak set in 2007, and the prospect is helping lift crude oil prices.
Low gas prices create a detour on the road to greater fuel economy
With a crucial midterm review of federal fuel-economy rules to begin this summer, automakers are expected to seek adjustments to the government’s formula for increasing mileage and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
