The mining operation, run by the state-controlled energy company LaGeo SA de CV, managed to generate 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, using geothermal power from volcanoes, Bukele tweeted. Earlier this week, the president shared on Twitter a video of government-branded shipping containers carrying digital-currency miners to an energy facility in …
Read More »Energy crisis stretches to UK food-supply chain, already bruised by labour shortage amid Brexit & Covid-19
Carbon dioxide is a by-product of fertiliser production that is used to stun animals before slaughter as well as for the packaging process that prolongs the shelf life of all meat, and in fizzy drinks and beer. However, soaring gas prices have brought about a slowdown at some chemical factories …
Read More »Iran allows International Atomic Energy Agency to use monitoring equipment at its nuclear sites after meeting in Tehran
After IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with AEOI vice president and head Mohammad Eslami, it was announced that IAEA inspectors would now be able to service “identified equipment” in Iran and “replace their storage media which will be kept under the joint IAEA and AEOI seals” in the country. …
Read More »Europe’s high energy prices are just the beginning
Of course, natural gas prices are soaring everywhere—not just in Europe. The US benchmark price for natural gas has nearly doubled over the last year, with front-month Henry Hub prices reaching $4.690/MMBtu as of September 6. And that’s despite record natural gas production in hot basins like Appalachia. But US …
Read More »Russia & India have ‘tremendous potential’ in energy cooperation – India’s energy minister
“There’s a lot of ongoing cooperative work in the sector of petroleum and natural gas [between Russia and India]. It contains tremendous potential,” India’s minister of petroleum and natural gas and head of his country’s delegation to Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) said. He noted that Russia has many ongoing …
Read More »America’s billion-dollar gas game: Nord Stream 2 threatens US energy exports to Europe. No wonder Washington wanted to block it
However, efforts to draw a line under the debate over the almost-finished energy link have clear-ly not pacified Ukraine’s foreign minister. Dmytro Kuleba was quick to reply to the news on Wednesday, saying in a joint statement with Poland’s foreign minister that the proposals put forward to alleviate the “security …
Read More »‘Turn off those big a** billboards!’: New Yorkers fume over alert to save energy as massive screens blaze in Times Square
A notice from the city’s energy manager Con Edison asked people to reduce their power consumption on Wednesday, saying they should limit the “unnecessary use of air conditioning” and other appliances, including washing machines, dryers, and microwaves. The alert was relayed by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, and even sent …
Read More »‘I thought it was systemic racism’: US energy secretary roasted for linking ‘climate change’ and Florida building collapse
Appearing on CNN’s ‘New Day’ on Tuesday, Granholm was asked if climate change, including “extraordinary tides,” could be behind the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida. “Obviously, we don’t know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising,” Granholm immediately took the bait. “We know that we are …
Read More »US sanctions become blessing in disguise for Iran’s energy sector
Shortly after the US Department of Justice announced on Monday that two million barrels of impounded Iranian oil had been sold for $110 million, a pair of suspicious fires broke out affecting Iranian infrastructure. The first, striking the country’s biggest warship, the IRIS ‘Kharg’, eventually caused the vessel to sink …
Read More »‘Garbage will never end’: Russia bets on waste-to-energy plants
“Garbage will never end. It is just like the forest, the wind and the sun. I hope the sun will not go out, the wind will always be. We need to build incinerators so that there is less waste and more clean energy,” Ivanov said at the St. Petersburg International …
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