Powering the Planet

Enhanced geothermal is a hot technology in 2026 and the recent initial public offering (IPO) of enhanced geothermal start-up Fervo is a big reason why.

The energy markets are causing a lot of head-scratching these days.

President Trump and many of the traditional oil industry cheerleaders and propagandists are selling a very big lie right now about the U.S. oil industry.

Imagine you wanted to buy a new car.

A year ago I wrote this: “The global LNG industry has an economics problem.”

It’s raining oil in Tehran today.

Mexico’s increasing dependence on natural gas (methane) imports from the U.S. will lead to higher energy prices for Mexico while missing the opportunity to rapidly transition to solar plus storage.

The world is waking up to the obvious when it comes to the global LNG glut and the havoc that it will wreak on the economics of U.S.

In 2017, former Exxon CEO and Secretary of Energy Rex Tillerson called President Donald Trump a fucking moron.

In March of 2018 I pitched the editors at DeSmog on a series of articles about the finances of the fracking industry.

The New York Times recently profiled Harold Hamm, Continental CEO Resources chairman emeritus, and noted how Hamm is advising Trump to go all in on fossil fuels.

Before the epic U.S. housing and commercial real estate crash of 2008, bankers were applying innovative approaches to lending.

The world is facing a multi-year oil glut where the oil producers will be pumping more oil out of the ground than the world is using.

In 2019 there was a bidding war for the Permian-based oil and gas company Anadarko.

Gastech is a big deal in the global methane/natural gas industry.