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Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks
28.04.2024, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind. For fifteen years it has ticked along block by block with only two disruptions in its first few years that were very quickly handled by responsive developers the minute they manifested...
Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive"
26.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive" The world's largest global diversified miner, BHP, is being forced to significantly raise its buyout offer of Anglo American or walk away from the proposed all-share deal valued at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion). "The BHP proposal is opportunistic and fails to value Anglo...
BHP Proposes $39 Billion Takeover Over Anglo To Form Copper Mining Giant
25.04.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BHP Proposes $39 Billion Takeover Over Anglo To Form Copper Mining Giant The world's largest global diversified miner, BHP Group, is making a monster bet on surging future copper demand with the proposed takeover of Anglo American Plc. The bet is based on the thesis that the world's power grids need a major overhaul and that the electrification of...
Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal
25.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, When your cell phone gets hot, that means its processors are computing faster or you have a lot of apps open. The same is true for “server farms,” which Gigabyte.com explains are “a large number—up to thousands—of servers grouped...
Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"?
25.04.2024, 04:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"? Just over a week ago, we asked our readers a very straightforward question: Who is funding this chaos? This question followed incidents where pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted critical infrastructure, such as shutting down airport terminals...
If We Want Something As Good But More Reliable, It'll Cost Much More Money
23.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If We Want Something As Good But More Reliable, It'll Cost Much More Money By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Utopia? “We added solar and wind like it was going out of style,” said the CIO of the well-regarded US fund. “We have ample land, wind in the middle of the country.” Federal subsidies make electricity almost free. “But...
On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant
23.04.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com U.S. President Joe Biden is announcing on Monday $7 billion in grants to help more than 900,000 low-income households install residential solar power, the White House said. President Biden will mark today’s Earth Day by traveling to...
Sam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment
22.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment Sam Altman and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are betting on solar power and energy storage that can supply a low-carbon future to artificial intelligence data centers. Altman, the face of the AI chatbot boom, has also invested in nuclear power technology to fuel America's...
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival
20.04.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, Despite its commitment to “no more gas, oil, or coal,” Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign against one of the nation’s “greenest” governors, California’s Gavin Newsom. Their goal? To stop the U.S. Department of Energy from doling...
The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits
20.04.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly suggests that the transition to a new Green Economy is not progressing as well as hoped. Green energy planners...
How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water
19.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As federal net-zero policies attempt to shift transportation, heating, and other essentials onto the electric grid, one of the hottest growth sectors of America’s economy is poised to increase electricity demand exponentially,...
National Security Implications Of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe
19.04.2024, 16:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - National Security Implications Of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe Authored by Rob Maness via RealClearDefense, The Port of Baltimore is “closed until further notice” following the Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy, sending several industries into disarray and jeopardizing national security. In 2023, the port handled a record amount of international...
Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade'
16.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade' US power grid regulators and utilities are warning about energy shortfalls. Projections for US electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from about one year ago, primarily because of the expected explosion of artificial intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants...
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
15.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that... California Home-Solar Boom Collapses The Wall Street Journal reports The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ The...
Nine Critical Energy Minerals For Investors
15.04.2024, 10:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nine Critical Energy Minerals For Investors Emission-free technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels, wind turbines, and nuclear reactors are critical to reducing energy-related emissions and fulfilling net zero goals by 2050. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist partnered with Sprott to explore nine minerals crucial for these technologies...
How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures
13.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s check in on the not exactly impressive energy and inflation results of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)... Data from the BLS, chart by Mish Biden’s energy policy has been an inflationary disaster. And make...
Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction
13.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction One week after the Biden administration slapped new regulations on key power grid components, the Washington Post reports that US oil and gas companies will face a 15-fold increase in costs to drill on federal land, under a new rule released on Friday...
Americans Now Worry About Out-Of-Control Power Bill Inflation
12.04.2024, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Now Worry About Out-Of-Control Power Bill Inflation Tens of millions of Americans are having trouble paying their power bills as residential electricity inflation continues to run rampant. The latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (February's print) shows that three out of every four major cities in the US had power prices rise...
Russia Bombards Ukraine With Hypersonic Missiles & Drones, Damaging Power Plants, NatGas Facilities
11.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Bombards Ukraine With Hypersonic Missiles & Drones, Damaging Power Plants, NatGas Facilities Russia launched a major missile and suicide drone offensive on Thursday, bombarding Ukraine's power grid and underground natural gas storage sites. Bloomberg reports Russia air-launched six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that hit critical infrastructure...
The Importance Of Nuclear Energy And Zaporizhzhia To Ukraine
11.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Importance Of Nuclear Energy And Zaporizhzhia To Ukraine Zaporizhzhia, consisting of 6 reactors and a net capacity of 5,700 megawatts when fully operational, is Ukraine and Europe's largest nuclear power plant. The facility came under drone attack this Sunday, with both Russia and Ukraine blaming each other for the strikes which caused “superficial...
California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income
11.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income Authored by Jane L. Johnson via The Mises Institute, Utility bills - for electricity, natural gas, water, and garbage - have by long-standing tradition been based on customer usage, measured in kilowatt-hours of electricity, therms or Btu of natural gas, hundred cubic feet of water...
Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe?
10.04.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe? A new analysis by the energy think tank Ember has found that several countries in Europe could soon face bottlenecks in their national transmission energy grids, as more solar and wind power will be generated than these networks have capacity for. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart , Spain...
Trafigura Gets Bullish On Power Markets As Wall Street Joins The 'Next Big Trade'
09.04.2024, 19:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trafigura Gets Bullish On Power Markets As Wall Street Joins The 'Next Big Trade' It's becoming increasingly clear that cutting-edge chatbot providers and other AI and hyper-scaler businesses will require energy-intensive data centers to operate. This places a significant burden on an outdated electrical grid that desperately needs modernization. ...
New EPA Emissions Standards Defy Reality
09.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New EPA Emissions Standards Defy Reality Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The recent stringent Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) carbon emissions standards for internal combustion engines defy economic realities. The EPA would have us believe that coercing folks to buy electric vehicles (EV) will somehow reduce...
Eclipse Will Cut 30 Gigawatts Of Solar Power Across Nation's Grids
08.04.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eclipse Will Cut 30 Gigawatts Of Solar Power Across Nation's Grids Later today, as millions of Americans head outside to observe the total solar eclipse, power grid operators across the country will face a significant reduction in solar power generation. This will place grids in a vulnerable spot, as backup fossil fuel generation and or battery reserves...
AI Demand For Data Centers Is "Absurd" As The Next Trade Unfolds
06.04.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Demand For Data Centers Is "Absurd" As The Next Trade Unfolds We presented the trade idea that a surge in artificial intelligence demand is sparking the need for significant upgrades to the nation's decades-old power grid as new data warehouses come online. Several of the nation's power grids face increasing power brownout/blackout risks during...
Behind EV Push, A Wealth Transfer From Red To Blue Regions
06.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind EV Push, A Wealth Transfer From Red To Blue Regions Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden’s new EV mandates will likely prove to be a sizable wealth transfer from rural red regions of America to urban blue sections, and to wealthy Democrats who reside in them, according to reports. On March 20,...
Biden DOE Slaps Energy Efficiency Regulations On Key Power Grid Components
05.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden DOE Slaps Energy Efficiency Regulations On Key Power Grid Components The Bide administration has finalized energy efficiency regulations for distribution transformers, a key component of managing the flow of electricity between power stations and consumers. In a Thursday morning announcement, the Department of Energy said that the regulations...
Princeton Scientists Unveil Breakthrough In Fusion Reactor Technology
05.04.2024, 08:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Princeton Scientists Unveil Breakthrough In Fusion Reactor Technology Authored by Brian Westenhaus via OilPrice.com, Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) utilize liquid lithium coating in fusion reactor vessels to optimize fueling and enhance plasma stability. Findings published in Nuclear Fusion highlight the importance of neutral...
"Nuclear Should Be Part Of The Future," PG&E CEO Says
05.04.2024, 03:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Nuclear Should Be Part Of The Future," PG&E CEO Says On Wednesday, Patti Poppe, the chief executive officer of Pacific Gas & Electric, told a Stanford University forum that nuclear power should continue to be part of the state's power generation mix as efforts to decarbonize the grid move forward. "Nuclear should be part of the future," Poppe said...
China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling
03.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it comes the need for batteries. While these batteries - also needed for home, industrial and grid energy storage - are being newly manufactured, Statista's Anna Fleck reports...
The Year Of Cascading Crises
21.02.2024, 22:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Year Of Cascading Crises Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, I often write about different crises, but usually one at a time. Whether it’s a market crash, recession, bank failures, etc. I take them on an individual basis. But what about a cascade of crises? What about a situation in which one crisis comes after another for a prolonged...
The Pitfalls Of Central Planning
21.02.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Pitfalls Of Central Planning Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If Central Planning can't expand its power, it expands its budget, at the expense of its programs. Central Planning has an ominous totalitarian undertone, but there is a place for it in the social toolbox. The federal Interstate highway system was central planning...
10 Reasons Why The World Can't Run Without Fossil Fuels
17.02.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 10 Reasons Why The World Can't Run Without Fossil Fuels Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World, Banks, governments, and businesses would face failure due to the essential role of fossil fuels in the economy. Critical infrastructure like electricity, internet, and trade systems would collapse without fossil fuel support. Agriculture and home...
You Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For Us
16.02.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - You Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For Us Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, In recent years, “van life’, “car life” and “tiny homes” have all become extremely hot topics on social media. Millennials and Generation Z have been particularly eager to try out these...
"This Is A Date With Disaster": Net-Zero Is Pulling The Plug on America’s Electrical 'Life Support System,' New Documentary Says
13.02.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Is A Date With Disaster": Net-Zero Is Pulling The Plug on America’s Electrical 'Life Support System,' New Documentary Says Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Electricity is among the most essential sources of America’s unparalleled prosperity and productivity; it is also the greatest vulnerability. Giant wind turbines...
Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks - SecDef Austin's Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater
12.02.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks - SecDef Austin's Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater Authored by Bob Bishop via Sonar21.com, Lloyd Austin underwent an invasive surgical procedure called a prostatectomy for his prostate cancer. He was readmitted to the ICU ward of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center seven days later, on January 1st, due to complications...
Germany To Replace Nuclear With Natural Gas Plants For $16B
12.02.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany To Replace Nuclear With Natural Gas Plants For $16B Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Last April, Germany shut down its last three nuclear power stations, marking the end of the country’s atomic age. The controversial decision came at a time when Europe and the German public was beginning to warm up to nuclear energy in the wake of...
In January Cold, The Texas Electricity Grid Held-Up... Barely
10.02.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In January Cold, The Texas Electricity Grid Held-Up... Barely Authored by Bill King via RealClear Wire, During the recent Winter Storm Heather (Jan. 13-16), the Texas grid was able to produce enough energy to meet the demand, but just barely. Since Winter Storm Uri (February 2021), it appears that improvements have been made to the reliability of natural...
S&P To Open Above 5000, Set To Make It 14 Weeks Higher Out Of 15, Matching Best Stretch On Record
09.02.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P To Open Above 5000, Set To Make It 14 Weeks Higher Out Of 15, Matching Best Stretch On Record US futures ticked higher again on Friday morning ahead of the release of CPI revision data (previewed here), assuring that the S&P 500 cash index will rise above the historic 5,000 level when it breaks for trading. S&P 500 futures traded 0.2% higher as...
The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Three: Alternatives To Wind & Solar Energy
09.02.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Three: Alternatives To Wind & Solar Energy Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, Wind and solar energy cannot lift humanity into prosperity. But as an impressive fleet of private jets has recently migrated from the COP 28 Summit in Dubai to the World Economic Forum in Davos, carrying the hoi polloi...
The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Two: Can Wind & Solar Energy Expand 50-100x?
08.02.2024, 09:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Two: Can Wind & Solar Energy Expand 50-100x? Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, Wind and solar energy cannot lift humanity into prosperity. But as an impressive fleet of private jets has recently migrated from the COP 28 Summit in Dubai to the World Economic Forum in Davos, carrying the hoi polloi...
'Non, Merci Joe!' - France Is (Was) The Biggest Importer Of US LNG
08.02.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Non, Merci Joe!' - France Is (Was) The Biggest Importer Of US LNG On January 26, President Joe Biden paused all approvals of new U.S. LNG export plans following increased protests from climate activists after the country became the world's top exporter of the commodity this past year. This pause will be used to conduct a review that will "look at...
2024 Is The New 1984: Big Brother & The Rise Of The Security Industrial Complex
08.02.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2024 Is The New 1984: Big Brother & The Rise Of The Security Industrial Complex Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Big Brother is Watching You.” - George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off...
The Future Of American Energy Production Must Include Nuclear
07.02.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Future Of American Energy Production Must Include Nuclear Authored by Tommy Tuberville via RealClear Wire, It’s the coldest time of the year, and the demand for energy is significantly higher as people try to warm their homes. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in Alabama seven out of ten homes rely on electric...
Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India
06.02.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India US thermal coal exporters recorded more than $5 billion in overseas sales in 2023, shipping upwards of 32.5 million metric tons of the high-polluting power fuel, according to Reuters, citing data from ship-tracking firm Kpler. These coal export earnings were the second highest since 2017, trailing...
Scientific Alarmism Drives DoD Climate Policy
03.02.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific Alarmism Drives DoD Climate Policy Authored by Scott Sturman and Doug Goodman via The Epoch Times, Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as necessary to counteract the existential threat of climate change. The program’s comprehensive and prohibitively expensive initiative...
Davos, Dictators, & The Real "Threats To Our Democracy"
27.01.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Davos, Dictators, & The Real "Threats To Our Democracy" Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times, Republican presidential candidate (and now presumptive nominee) Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary in the past week, breaking records in both contests. In Iowa, Trump received an unprecedented 51 percent of votes cast—more...
Was 2023 Really The Second-Hottest Year Since 1884?
20.01.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Was 2023 Really The Second-Hottest Year Since 1884? Authored by Iain Davis via Off-Guardian.org, According to the UK Met Office, 2023 was the second hottest year in the UK since 1884. Quite obviously, this is complete nonsense. Unless they are troglodytes that never venture out in daylight, why would anyone in the UK believe such absurd drivel? The...