Highview Power is using Liquid Air Energy Storage at grid scale in a power plant near Manchester, England. LAES uses excess renewable energy and heat generated from other processes to store air as a liquid, then releases it as needed…

Puna Geothermal Ventures, a 38 MW plant in the lava flow area of the Big Island, is completely offline. The wells have been capped. Two wellheads have been covered by lava. A substation has been destroyed. Personnel has been evacuated.…

Combating Trump isn’t a normal political battle. Rather, it is the political equivalent of war. One side will win, the other will be crushed. Once you realize that, many things fall into place. For example, it is pointless to argue…

I hear Snowden’s con quite often on the supposed hard left now. “It’s ghastly what is going on, so we must organize to create change in the future.” Any actual, real action now is discouraged. The goal is nebulous. It…

Renewable energy, especially grid-scale solar and wind, is now much cheaper to produce than fossil fuel energy. This trend is irreversible, worldwide, and will continue. Conventional energy will continue to be used as backup energy. Battery storage, a still developing…

Team Trump manages the difficult task of being nasty and vicious while simultaneously being comically bumbling and incompetent. Their “strategy” apparently is to try to win their legal battles on Twitter and social media rather than in the courts. Good…

There have been far too many extreme right-wing students who go violently crazy and start slaughtering their fellow students for it to be random, or mental illness, or that they are copycats. The reality is they are being recruited in…