Now that the promise of SMRs is clearly bogus, it may explain why we got another article today talking about how fusion is "coming soon!" And guess who is selling that message of delay?

Why is the US secretary of Energy telling the EU they have to get rid of their methane regulations? It's simple. The distance between what the EU says they require and what the real science and data shows is happening in US gas production is so vast, the only way to get around it is to ignore it.

The plan from the industry was to get China to switch from coal to LNG. You know what they say about plans...

This is a new one. From Oil and Gas Middle East commenting on the new IEA report that was clearly influenced by pressure from the US. "The report, independent of government influence..." if you have to say that, it's a clear sign it is not true.

The US secretary of energy says the following. “We will double the natural gas exports from where they are today in the next four or five years,” Wright said in Italy. LNG, he noted, is “the fastest growing source of energy on the planet.” Who wants to tell this MIT-educated man?

"So even though the U.S. LNG industry is growing rapidly in scale and importance, this dynamic could crash with harsh market realities in the coming years." The market realities of the US LNG industry are becoming a bit too obvious to ignore. (paywall)

Did team WSJ spend the weekend at a Sun Day rally? "The rapid pace of EV adoption in China and elsewhere casts a long shadow over oil demand. Natural gas will be burned for decades, but increasingly competitive solar panels and batteries might sap how much of it the world will need."

Best way to reduce methane emissions is to move to solar and wind instead of methane (LNG and natural gas). Good news, it's also a much better economic choice.

It's been voted the happiest song ever. This artist has been doing video tributes to it for a while. Happy 21st of September!

Happy Sun Day! Here is a photo of the sun setting over Exxon’s Golden Pass LNG industry. Some would argue the sun is setting on the LNG industry as a whole because they can’t compete with solar.

Look at this rural American road with brand new power transmission lines. Who is using all of this power? The clue is in the bottom left of the photo

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Coal is cheaper than imported LNG. So in India they could raise their costs and increase their energy insecurity by relying on more LNG or...they could switch to solar plus storage. "renewable energy with storage can be cheaper than coal" Which would you choose?

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If you have a subscription I recommend you watch the video in this Bloomberg piece. It's about the troubles caused by oil and gas wastewater injection wells. I wrote about that a while back.

🔌💡 #Greensky Hi All. I've written up some notes with links to resources for anyone who wants to understand and make the case for grid-scale batteries in their community, as we did in Poughkeepsie. Feel free to share. And for the many people on here who know more than me – please help me improve it.

It's not like there were any real regulations for the first one either.

As Japanese companies buy up US gas assets to feed their investments in US LNG export terminals I'm sure they believe this time is different. And this time may be different, but not in a way that breaks in their favor. Japanese customers were early investors in US shale oil fields. Oops.

Who could have predicted this? I'd say anyone with basic reading and math skills and a smidgen of curiosity. Maybe next time. But if you keep watching Fox News, maybe not.

Oil and gas lobbyists (anonymous, of course) are lamenting how the Trump admin is making their jobs harder. US LNG is a dirty high-emissions fuel. They have relied on industry self-reported numbers regurgitated by the EPA as fact to support their claims it wasn't. Can't do that now.

“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

"EVs cut costly oil imports."

Remember when Dan Yergin, the elder statesmen of oil propaganda, wrote a piece (with helpers) to tell us the energy transition wasn't happening. That was February. I'm sure Dan and his team will be issuing a correction soon....

The headline of this article states a fact. Nowhere in the article is this fact supported. Pretty standard for the major financial press when trying to tell us there is a bright future for fossil fuels. (paywall)

Perhaps Schumer and Jeffries are actually hoping that we no longer have free elections as that is also the best path for them to retain power?

Gas prices in the US are still pretty cheap. We are told we need a lot more gas power. But the invisible hand of the market has a different opinion. While gas is still historically cheap, it can't compete with the new cheaper alternatives.

What happens when you expose a community to large amounts of methane and the associated toxins? The findings: A study published today in the journal Science Advances found that women who were pregnant at the time of the leak had babies with low birth weights at rates almost 50% higher than normal.

When you read about the Bezos-owned WaPo firing reporters to please Trump it will help you understand the behavior of the large "environmental" orgs in the US who are heavily funded by Bezos.

A year ago I wrote this: "It will not surprise me if major investors in U.S. oil companies will be pushing for public ownership in a decade. They will be happy to unload the dying industry with huge debts. We should be planning for that now." (1/2)

MAGA got mad when I reported on climate change - my station told me to stop. They scream free speech but blacklist those who simply speak the truth. Terry Moran, #MatthewDowd, and others all paid the price. I left rather than be silenced. We’re in dangerous times when truth bows to MAGA.

People in my life are probably tired of how often I'm excitedly saying, "No...you don't understand....this is happening much faster than expected...people don't know what's happening!"

Today is the last day to submit a comment to support public ownership of renewable power in New York. While I fully support this effort it is also someone disheartening that we are advocating for 15GW by 2030. China will probably install that much solar in the next few weeks.

The US recently told Brazil that they would pay an economic price if they prosecuted Bolsanaro. Brazil is sending him to prison for 27 years for his attempted coup. The US also is telling many countries they have to buy US LNG. Do they?

Just dropped: @financialtimes.com excellent special report on electrification. I told them: “Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."

“There’s a number of sort of nontariff barriers that I think are problematic for growing energy into Europe,” Wright said ... pointing to the methane regulation. “Wouldn’t be good for America … wouldn’t be good for Europe." If they gas is clean like they say, why are the regulations a problem?

The IEA is now predicting oil demand will be lower next year than this year. "Meanwhile, global demand is forecast to grow by 737,000 barrels a day this year... Next year, demand growth is projected at 698,000 barrels a day" Subtle but also a very big deal. Structural change in oil markets.

It's easy to lie about science. It's harder to lie to people about the price of food, energy, healthcare, housing, education, childcare, etc.

Hungary & its leader Orban have been held up by the Republicans in the US as a model to emulate. They hate the same groups of people. Despite Orban being much like Trump, solar power just overtook gas in Hungary. Authoritarians like money. If you aren't running a petrostate, this is the way.

Some timeline cleansing is in order these days.

“This is a huge game changer,” said Li, referring to its new battery charging system able to add a range of about 470km in five minutes. Very recently people were still talking about how we needed to redesign gas stations so that people could wait there for their cars to charge.

This chart is wild. Near vertical direction on solar capacity globally, led by China. And as Ember notes in a new report today, that trend is accelerating with nearly 400GW new capacity in first 6 months of 2025.

My provocation: By 2035, methane - not carbon dioxide - will be the main driver of climate change. Absent significant policy intervention, fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to emit methane at high rates even if fossil fuel combustion, and associated carbon dioxide emissions, drop sharply.

How can you tell US gas is in a bubble? This is one. The biggest nat gas (methane) producer in the US just announced plans to buy liquid methane (LNG) from a US export terminal. "EQT Corp... saying it would buy 1 Mt/y from the proposed Commonwealth LNG project in Louisiana" paywalled

"in many rural communities, solar is seen less as a clean-energy solution and more as an industrial eyesore." Such privilege. They want to enjoy their pristine countryside using fossil fuels while not feeling any of the impacts of the production and combustion of those that so many people do.

US oil and gas employment.

India has 20 gigawatts of gas (methane) power generation capacity. India built more than 20 gigawatts of renewable capacity in the first half of this year. Those promising a bright future for very expensive LNG (methane) because of India are delusional.

In a WSJ article about how the oil industry is getting everything it asked for from Trump, it includes this graph. I'm still waiting on the article that explains why Trump and his "I'll punch you in the fucking face" secty of treasury's promises of huge increases in oil production didn't happen

US vehicle manufacturers announce plans for obsolescence. "General Motors Co (GM) last week said it would cut electric-vehicle production plans at two factories as it overhauls a third plant to make gas-fueled pickups, instead of battery-powered trucks."

#Banksy has just paid a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. 🎯

Good morning with good news: "IRENA found that in 2024, the global average cost of electricity generated by solar PV was, on average, 41% lower than the least-cost new fossil fuel-fired power plant, as shown in the figure below." Solar booms! #energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...