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US Power Grid & Communication Networks Survive Extreme Geomagnetic Storm
11.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Power Grid & Communication Networks Survive Extreme Geomagnetic Storm The Space Weather Prediction Center of NOAA warned on Friday night about an "extreme" G5 geomagnetic storm impacting Earth, which lasted into the early morning hours. While there have been disruptions in communications, no significant failures in the US power grid have been reported...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
Watch: Hundreds Of Marxist Extremists Storm Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin
10.05.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Hundreds Of Marxist Extremists Storm Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin All hell is breaking out at Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg on Friday as hundreds of woke Marxist extremists storm the property. Videos on X show hundreds of people running towards the massive factory. BREAKING: Far-left extremists just tried storming a Tesla factory...
Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart
10.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart Copper is essential for clean energy applications such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles (EVs), as well as for expanding electrical grids. The surge in demand for the metal, driven by the growing adoption of these technologies, presents a unique investment opportunity for...
Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes
09.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes Large-scale Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become an almost daily event, but Wednesday saw a "massive" wave of Russian missiles launched on vital power grid sites, according to Ukraine authorities. Ukraine is now warning of nationwide power cuts...
Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power
09.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power By Haley Zermba of Oilprice.com The world is experiencing a nuclear renaissance. Uranium prices are soaring as the world snaps up nuclear fuel, public favor for nuclear power is at a 10-year high in the United States, Russia is busily expanding its own nuclear energy empire in emerging economies...
The Marine Corps That Should Have Been
08.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Republicans Attempt Rollback Of Electric Truck Rule
06.05.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republicans Attempt Rollback Of Electric Truck Rule By John Gallagher of FreightWaves The Biden administration’s recent final rule setting new carbon emissions standards for truck makers could be overturned if Republicans in Congress get their way. Senate and House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a resolution of disapproval of the Environmental...
Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices
06.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk The lie of the day is from the EPA: Carbon capture will pay for itself (thanks to IRA subsidies). No, it won’t even with subsidies. Expect blackouts and a higher price for electricity. Suite of Standards to Raise Costs, Reduce Output Let’s take...
Data Centers Hiding In 'Spy Country' Northern Virginia Will Need Reactor's Worth Of Power
05.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Data Centers Hiding In 'Spy Country' Northern Virginia Will Need Reactor's Worth Of Power Since the beginning of the digital age, most of the world's internet data has flowed through massive data centers in Northern Virginia. The area is known as "Data Center Alley" because it's home to the world's largest concentration of data centers. Some call...
Blackrock's Larry Fink Jumps On "Next AI Trade", Warning World Will Be "Short Power"
01.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackrock's Larry Fink Jumps On "Next AI Trade", Warning World Will Be "Short Power" At the start of April, we penned a lengthy report for premium subs discussing why artificial intelligence data centers, the electrification of the economy, and onshoring trends will result in a major upgrade of the nation's power grid. We followed the note up on...
"A Lot Of Shuttered Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Turned Back On", Fed Energy Official Says
30.04.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "A Lot Of Shuttered Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Turned Back On", Fed Energy Official Says The United States is about to experience a resurgence in nuclear energy. The federal government is expected to continue restarting shuttered nuclear power plants in the coming years to meet the increasing demand for clean, dependable energy essential for powering...
Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session
29.04.2024, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session US equity futures swung between gains and losses and traded near session highs as US traders walked to their desks on Monday morning after a rollercoaster day for the Japanese yen, which increasingly looks like some 3rd world banana republic currency instead...
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...