Energy Aware
Oil is likely to surge to extreme highs in 2026, but that does not mark the beginning of a long-term structural bull market. It’s a wartime spike inside a debt-saturated…
Shell describes the world we live in, models a different one, and doesn’t seem to notice the mismatch. Its 2026 Energy Security Scenarios lays out the constraints of our planetary…
We need gas. We need nuclear. We need it all. We need it now. That was Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s message on surging U.S. power demand. It sounds decisive. It’s…
The energy transition is collapsing—not in headlines, but in economics. What began as a hopeful vision for a cleaner future has become an economic bust. While markets and workers sense…
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are advertised as a breakthrough: clean, firm power anywhere, unlocked by drilling and fracking technologies borrowed from shale. The story sounds great. The economics are disastrous.…
As our economic, social and environmental problems worsen, nuclear energy has resurfaced as the way out of our planetary crisis. Its appeal is strong — high energy density and zero-carbon…
The International Energy Agency made headlines last week by admitting that oil demand isn’t peaking. That got everyone’s attention but the agency’s outlook was nearly identical to last year’s version:…
A French court found TotalEnergies guilty last week of misleading investors about renewable energy. The oil and gas company was fined for “misleading commercial practices” — basically for telling the…
I just returned from ten days in Iceland, drawn by the geology and stark beauty. What I found was more than scenery—it was a case history in climate change, collapse,…
The EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2025 provides a solid baseline for understanding U.S. energy trends, but it’s built on a business-as-usual framework that filters out geopolitical, financial, governance, and ecological…
The world is changing fast, and the public is uneasy. Gallup’s World Happiness Report shows that the major powers—China, the U.S., India, Russia—are less happy than they were 15 years…
The energy part of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “3-3-3” plan aims to boost U.S. oil production by 3 million barrels/day by 2028, reinforcing Trump’s Energy Dominance push. But can it…