Daily Standup Top Stories Amazon claims to power all its operations with renewable energy. If only that were true. July 29, 2024 Mariel Alumit When Amazon announced this month that it had achieved 100% renewable energy seven years ahead of schedule, that sounded like really good news for Virginia. Amazon owns more data centers here than anyone else, […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Ford scraps plans for $1.8-billion Oakville EV assembly plant, will retool to make gasoline pickups July 21, 2024 Stu Turley New plan comes after Ford postponed EV plant launch to 2027; those EVs will now be made elsewhere, while Oakville may get an electric pickup later in the decade Ford Motor […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Global Tech Outage Wreaks Havoc July 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit The disruption underscores just how reliant much of the world is on key software providers. Digital Disruption International air travel, financial services, medical systems, and television broadcasts briefly ground to a halt on Friday after […] Ford scraps plans for $1.8-billion Oakville EV […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Trump shot in ear at campaign rally, world leaders react July 14, 2024 Mariel Alumit Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday (13 July) campaign rally, streaking the Republican presidential candidate’s blood across his face and prompting his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged […] Western […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Ex-Biden Lackey Tells CNBC: To Fix Inflation, Ditch Fossil Fuels And Boost Green Spending July 17, 2024 Andy Del Prado A former Biden official promoted spending billions more dollars on green energy as a solution to economic and inflationary woes. Heritage Foundation economist E. J. Antoni quickly set a former Biden […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen July 16, 2024 Mariel Alumit The laptop class has rediscovered a basic truth: foundational innovation, once adoption proceeds at scale, is followed by an epic increase in energy consumption. It’s an iron law of our universe. To illustrate that law, […] China plans low-carbon upgrades for coal power […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Trump shot in ear at campaign rally, world leaders react July 14, 2024 Mariel Alumit Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday (13 July) campaign rally, streaking the Republican presidential candidate’s blood across his face and prompting his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged […] The Green […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories 1PointFive Signs an Agreement to Sell 500,000 Metric Tons of Carbon Credits to Microsoft July 10, 2024 Mariel Alumit 1PointFive has signed an agreement to supply Microsoft with 500,000 metric tons of carbon credits for the next six years. Takeaway Points 1PointFive signs an agreement to sell 500,000 metric tons of carbon […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories French nuclear giant scraps SMR plans due to soaring costs, will start over July 3, 2024 Mariel Alumit The French nuclear giant EdF, the government owned company that manages the country’s vast fleet of nuclear power stations, has reportedly scrapped its plans to develop a new design for small nuclear reactors because […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Biden Illegally Diverts Billions to Build Floating Wind Turbines! June 22, 2024 Stu Turley Guest Post from David Wojick at CFact. The Biden Administration is illegally redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars in highway grant money to fund construction of floating wind manufacturing facilities. The funding mechanism is the INFRA […] Almost Half […]
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