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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...
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...
High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP): A Mortal Threat to the U.S. National Power Grid and U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
28.02.2023, 16:16 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (desktop version) To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and … The post High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP): A Mortal Threat to the...
Technocratic Dystopia Is Impossible
18.01.2023, 17:59 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - In the coming technocratic dystopia, life will be grim for most of us. For those who survive the preliminary depopulation, a technological control grid run by AI and robots will keep tabs on our every movement. You notice that your pantry cube is running a bit low on freeze-dried bug burgers, fake meat, and cockroach milk. The post Technocratic Dystopia...
China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe
29.08.2022, 14:39 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Around 90% of China's electrical grid depends on abundant water resources, which will be threatened by the water crisis, and only coal can solve that, which could trigger a global catastrophe. The post China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe appeared first on GreatGameIndia....