Month: August 2023

Back in 2019 — before the Covid pandemic hit — the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it had peered into the future and could see no sign of “peak oil” happening any time soon. There was simply no end to the demand for oil and other fossil fuels in sight. A lot has happened since […]

Silence is golden. Noise makes our bodies tense up. It’s stressful. We value the lack of noise far more when coming from a loud environment into a quieter place. Going from the city into the countryside, we notice how peaceful things are. We breathe deeper and feel more connected with our surroundings. Our minds clear […]

Due to current ocean and atmospheric conditions, such as record-warm sea surface temperatures, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service — has increased their prediction for the ongoing 2023 Atlantic hurricane season to an “above normal” level of activity from a “near normal” level with their most recent update. The outlook […]

Aboitiz Power Corp. (AboitizPower) said its renewable energy arm Aboitiz Renewables, Inc. (ARI) had entered a partnership with Vena Energy to invest in the latter’s 102-megawatt (MW) wind power project in Rizal and Laguna. The deal was inked early in July, and just this first week of August, the rollout plans have started. “We are […]

One of the release candidate Tesla Cybertrucks was spotted in Austin, Texas yesterday. This time though, it was not loaded on an open trailer, rather, an enclosed one, like a container. This Cybertruck unit was leaving a popular automotive location in Austin, Texas known as Petrol Lounge (perhaps this was the first vehicle without petrol […]

We are at the height of Danger Season, the time of year when extreme weather events driven by climate change are most prevalent across North America. The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. Thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants. The Environmental Protection […]

GM Authority reports that production will end in December instead of November 7 as previously planned.

BEV sales increased by nearly 70 percent year-over-year, while PHEV sales continued to decrease.