I saw the news yesterday and honestly had to laugh. The stock market was up and oil prices were dropping because there’s a rumor that the US and Iran had “perfect” negotiations led by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. But, when you see Donald Trump use words like “perfect” and … [continued]
The clean energy future for Oʻahu is no longer blocked by missing technology. The architecture is already visible. Once overseas aviation fuel, international bunkering, and military energy use are taken out of the frame, and once transportation, buildings, and industry are electrified, the civilian Oʻahu system settles into roughly 6,000 … [continued]
US President Donald Trump has busted up plans for a domestic green hydrogen industry in the US, but other countries have moved on.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit that the Sierra Club and its partners brought against Trump’s EPA over its repeal of the endangerment finding and vehicle emission standards. In response to EMA’s intervention, Sierra Club Clean Transportation for All Director … [continued]
Interest in electric cars is way up following increases in gas prices following the unprovoked attack on Iran.
The office of The Manila Times, where my “day job” is located, is within the historic walled city of Intramuros where the original tranvias (streetcars) operated during the late Spanish era (starting in 1886). They eventually evolved with the American electric tram system, but that was decimated during World War … [continued]
The French firm TotalEnergies agrees not to build offshore wind farms in the US — at least, not for the present time…
Washington, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior and TotalEnergies agreed to redirect $1 billion in offshore wind investments towards dirty, expensive fossil fuels instead. This announcement comes 10 days after a slew of victories in the offshore wind sector that will lower electricity prices for Americans. On … [continued]
The final piece of Hawaiʻi’s decarbonization puzzle is not on Oʻahu’s domestic grid. That part of the work is already largely bounded. In the earlier articles in this series, I stripped out overseas aviation fuel, ocean-crossing ship bunkering, and military energy use, then electrified ground transportation, local marine transport, buildings, … [continued]
The debate over LNG in Hawaiʻi persists because it sounds like a practical answer to a familiar problem. Oʻahu still relies heavily on imported fuel for electricity, so a different imported fuel can appear to be a reasonable bridge. LNG is marketed as dispatchable, cleaner than oil, and compatible with … [continued]
