ENERGY

Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com,

• Iran, has been looking to catalyse an expansion of the direct conflict between Israel and Hamas into a wider war between Islam and the Jewish state of Israel.

• EU source: the Iranian-backed Houthis are not acting against vessels in and around the Red Sea without Beijing’s tacit approval.

• If China did take its foot off the brake with Iran, then the chances of an embargo on oil exports first to Israel and then to its allies would (more…)

Authored by Leonard Hyman and William Tilles via OilPrice.com,

• The market for Grid-scale nuclear will be dominated by 3 players.

• This is the year we unofficially abandon climate targets because of the growing recognition they are unobtainable.

• The world’s lightest element (hydrogen) replaces small modular reactors (SMRs) as the most over-hyped idea but we become more realistic about its appropriate industrial uses.

Nowadays, you have to prepare for the unexpected, (more…)

Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

As the Biden administration promises to eliminate coal power throughout the United States, energy experts are sounding the alarm about what will be left of U.S. energy infrastructure if these plans succeed.

(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock)

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Dec. 2 at the U.N. COP 28 global warming summit that the Biden administration “will be working to accelerate unabated coal (more…)