ChatGPT generated panoramic aerial image showing Lower Manhattan fading into a ghosted oil field, symbolizing Wall Street’s retreat from fossil fuel investments
Wall Street’s six largest banks have cut their financing to oil, gas and coal projects by 25% year-on-year through August 1, 2025. In dollar terms, that means about $73 billion this year versus roughly $97 billion in the same period in 2024. The pullback is uneven. Morgan Stanley reduced its … [continued]
ChatGPT generated image of a gas turbine assembly facility, illustrating the multi-year manufacturing delays that new gas plants face—delays renewables avoid entirely
In recent remarks, John Ketchum, CEO of NextEra Energy, laid out a curious and somewhat baffling narrative: renewables should serve as a transition solution toward expanding natural gas generation. Yes, you read that correctly. After decades of framing gas as a so-called “bridge fuel” to a renewable future, the argument … [continued]
Workers in a copper recycling facility sort scrap wire and tubing—highlighting copper's critical circular economy role in the energy transition, from ChatGPT.
The April 2025 paper by Cathles and colleagues in SEG Discovery, Copper: Mining, Development, and Electrification, examining global copper supply constraints in the context of electrification and renewable energy, is rapidly becoming influential in industry and policy circles. It is important to closely scrutinize its assertions and underlying assumptions, as … [continued]
ChatGPT generated a thermal infrared drone image showing methane leaking from an abandoned well as a vivid red-orange plume against a dark purple terrain
Methane, long overshadowed by carbon dioxide in global climate discussions, is finally receiving the attention it deserves. Recent research, including a just published critical global inventory, A global inventory of methane emissions from abandoned oiland gas wells and possible mitigation pathways by Lei et al., highlights methane emissions from the … [continued]
When Donald Trump wrongly claimed that wind power turbines cause cancer, he may have been using an old and tired tactic from the Republican playbook, which is to lie or blatantly lie in order to smear something or someone. The goal is to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. His claim … [continued]
The new offshore drilling ban could help the US Department of Energy achieve its mission of diversifying the US hydrogen supply chain beyond natural gas.
The new offshore drilling ban could help the US Department of Energy achieve its mission of diversifying the US hydrogen supply chain beyond natural gas, and into more sustainable sources.
One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a cow with a big bubble labeled "Methane" coming out of its mouth
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob Jackson, scientist, author, and director of the Global Carbon Project to talk cow burps, landfills, and shale oil, all in aid of the very big global warming problem that is methane. This is the second half of our conversation, lightly … [continued]
In recent days I’ve become aware that a purportedly neutral and data-centric transit organization, the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), has been advancing hydrogen for urban transit in contradiction of global evidence of failure. A contact forwarded me a more detailed study that they’d done for the … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a helicopter with a methane detecting flir camera flying over the Permian Basin and detecting methane leaks
Methane is so hot right now. Well, it’s making the world a lot hotter, because it’s a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and we’ve been increasing the amount we’re dumping into the air. That’s not a good kind of hot. The United States is the worst emitter … [continued]
