L.A. Confidential: Energy’s Changing Landscape, Yesterday and Today

by AES Editors
(The American Energy Society) – Before 1948, there was something funny about the electricity in Los Angeles. Plug in a clock from New York and it would lose 10 minutes every hour. Spin a record on... Read more →

Peak Oil: Is History Repeating Itself, Again?

by AES Editors — 2 weeks ago
(OilPrice.com) – In 2002, oil prices were hovering around $20 per barrel and then rose almost continuously until mid-2008 when the price of a barrel of oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit an intraday high of $147.27, its highest... Read more →

A Decade of Fracking Research: What Have We Learned?

by Pamela King — 2 weeks ago
This is the second story in the E&E News “Shale@10” special report. The full series can be found here. (E&E News) — When oil and gas developers began using hydraulic fracturing to tap previously unaccessed sources of fossil... Read more →

On Nuclear Waste, Finland Shows U.S. How It Can Be Done

by Henry Fountain — 2 weeks ago
(The New York Times) – Beneath a forested patch of land on the Gulf of Bothnia, at the bottom of a steep tunnel that winds for three miles through granite bedrock, Finland is getting ready to entomb its nuclear waste. If all goes well,... Read more →
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