raunchyButtonPusher

Big Tech is betting on nuclear power to fuel AI's insatiable energy appetite. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to keep my phone alive past 3 PM. #EnergyCrisis #AI

Europe Says

europesays.com/1868677/ Energy warning ‘price could increase 100 times’ as Norway mulls cuttin | Personal Finance | Finance #Bills #blackout #ElectricityBills #EnergyBills #EnergyCrisis #Noreg #Norge #norway #nyheter

Global Threads

🇷🇺 RUSSIA-UKRAINE
🔴 Drone Strike Disrupts Global Oil Supply

🪧 Ukraine claims responsibility for striking a major Russia-Kazakhstan pipeline, disrupting Chevron & Exxon exports.

🪧 Attack targeted facilities supplying Russia’s military, with over 20 explosions reported.

🪧 Comes as U.S.-Russia peace talks on Ukraine war begin Tuesday in Saudi Arabia.

#Ukraine #Russia #Oil #EnergyCrisis #Chevron #Exxon

Global Threads

🇪🇺 EUROPE | 🇺🇦 UKRAINE
🔴 Ceasefire Hopes Lift Markets, but U.S. Tariffs Loom

🪧 Ukraine peace talks fuel stock & euro gains, with Germany’s DAX hitting a two-year high.

🪧 Gas prices could drop by up to 50% if Russian energy flows resume.

🪧 EU defense spending surges as security guarantees for Ukraine remain in focus.

#Ukraine #Russia #Ceasefire #EnergyCrisis #Defense #Markets

Nemo_bis 🌈

uspol, energy crisis

The so-called "National Energy Emergency" E.O. is likely moot:
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climate

However, if SCOTUS allows it to stand, reversing course on Biden v. Nebraska, its broad wording will get interesting.
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/

«Facilitate [...] domestic energy resources [...] Federal eminent domain authorities or authorities afforded under the Defense Production Act» also applies to power grid expansion (e.g. under IRA) and wind/solar power permits.

#EnergyCrisis #uspol

jbz

🏭 Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

「 Annual energy costs, the authors concluded, would decline by nearly 60%. Hundreds of millions of illnesses and 5 million deaths per year related to air pollution from energy—whether from woodburning cookstoves and kerosene lamps or from gas-fired power stations—would be avoided 」

techxplore.com/news/2025-02-ca

#carboncapture #renewables #climatechange #energycrisis

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

For most countries around the world, sourcing energy…

Tech Xplore
Global Threads

⚡ ENERGY CRISIS
🔴 UK Gas Prices Hit 2-Year High, Bills Set to Rise

🪧 Prices soar to 140p/therm as UK & EU gas storage drops amid cold weather.

🪧 China slaps 15% tariff on US gas, adding supply fears to global tensions.

🪧 Ofgem raised the energy price cap in Jan—another hike could come in April.

#EnergyCrisis #GasPrices #UK #Inflation #CostOfLiving

jbz

💥 Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
—The Guardian

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) defined a scenario which gives a 50% chance to keep warming under 2C – that scenario is now impossible,” he said. “The 2C target is dead, because the global energy use is rising, and it will continue to rise.”

theguardian.com/environment/20

#climatechange #energycrisis

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been…

The Guardian
Nemo_bis 🌈

Fossil propaganda

Reuters does propaganda in such a way, I can't even be mad at them:
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb

1 paragraph update of the day, 15 paragraphs of filler, 1 final paragraph with the actual facts. Skip the middle and you get the news: 3 billion dollars spent on additional fossil infrastructure to make power grids more fragile.

How wonderful, I'm delighted by our successful cooperation between humans in the face of #ClimateChange.

#FossilSubsidies #EnergyCrisis

Feb 09, 2025, 08:36 · · · 0 · 0
Nemo_bis 🌈

Ah yes, more #FossilSubsidies. Just what we needed for the #EU budget.

«The same EU official said that one option currently under consideration in Brussels is for the EU to subsidize purchases of LNG for countries that currently rely on Russian gas, paying them any difference in price to switch to a U.S. supplier.»

politico.eu/article/poland-us-

#EnergyCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Poland counters Trump’s EU trade ‘atrocity’ quip: US runs ‘huge’ surplus in services

EU officials still hope to avert a trade war with the…

POLITICO
Europe Says

europesays.com/1807370/ Renewable Energy Investment Market to grow by USD 181.9 Billion (2024-2028), driven by supportive government policies, Report with the AI impact on market trends #CleanEnergy #Energy #EnergyCrisis #InvestmentMarket #MarketGrowth #RenewableEnergy

jbz

☢️ If that's the only obstacle it'll definitely happen under Trump.

「 Energy prices would increase significantly and there’s no explanation for how rising demand for power will be met even before big power plants drop out of the supply mix 」

apnews.com/article/power-elect

#nuclearenergy #aws #energycrisis