Europeans will pay a high ‘geopolitical premium’ as oil passes $100 a barrel. In late February 2026, the United States and Israel carried out extensive coordinated strikes on Iran, prompting Iran to retaliate with drone and missile attacks against targets in Israel and several other countries in the surrounding region. … [continued]
Amid Soaring Energy & Gas Prices, Trump Admin Draws Far Fewer Bids Than Dec. Sale NEW ORLEANS — Gulf and environmental groups responded to the Trump administration’s latest large-scale sell-off of public waters to the oil-and-gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico today. The Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management … [continued]
The starting point for evaluating biomethane in Hawaiʻi is the fully electrified Oʻahu energy system that emerged from the earlier Sankey analysis. That work removed overseas aviation fuel, long-distance maritime bunkering, and military energy use from the island energy balance. It also electrified transportation, buildings, and industry while replacing combustion … [continued]
10–15 years ago, a common joke you’d see in online forums and Facebook groups was that Barack Obama was America’s Greatest Gun Salesman. With the prospect of strict gun control laws (that never had a snowball’s chance in hell of passing or surviving court challenges in the United States), many … [continued]
Energy dominance doesn’t come from the barrel of a rifle, it comes from harvesting the abundant energy of the sun.
Chatgpt generated: Electric vehicles and urban mobility representing the electrification of ground transportation on Oʻahu.
Energy discussions about Hawaiʻi often begin with the largest numbers in the system. Aviation fuel, maritime bunkering, and military logistics move large quantities of petroleum through Oʻahu’s ports and fuel infrastructure. Those flows dominate many statistical summaries of the state’s energy system, and they create the impression that the transition … [continued]
Chatgpt generated: Oil-fired electricity generation infrastructure illustrating how petroleum still powers much of Oʻahu’s grid.
Energy discussions about Hawaiʻi often begin with the largest numbers on the chart. Aviation fuel, maritime bunkering, and military logistics dominate many of the data tables that describe the state’s energy system. When those numbers are placed on a single chart, the scale of the challenge appears enormous and the … [continued]
In my previous assessments of Hawaiʻi’s energy system, I examined specific infrastructure decisions such as proposed LNG imports and the role of legacy petroleum assets. Those analyses focused on timing, economics, and the risk of locking in fossil pathways that do not align with the state’s statutory commitment to 100% … [continued]
The war on Iran has no plan and no direction other than winning on social media. What are the odds that this adventure will end well?
Doing the math on Aberdeen’s abandonment of hydrogen buses led to a question from someone living in Düren, Germany about their hydrogen program. On the surface the situations look different. Aberdeen was a city trying to build a hydrogen ecosystem largely on its own. Düren, a district of about 270,000 … [continued]
