The topic of heating and cooling will be very much with us this summer.
Shockingly – we received recently the tragic report from Saudi Arabia: 1301 pilgrims to Mecca died from heat exposure.
The US phase-out of coal fired electricity generation will be delayed due to the impact of growing loads driven by data-centres and in particular the energy demands associated with AI.
*Featured Image: Coal plants operating as of November 2021. Darker markers indicate multiple generators. Map: The Conversation/CC-BY-ND Source: EIA
Power outages are on the upswing across America, and a key culprit turns out to be, wait for it, fossil-gas. A recent article by Alex Kimani in Oil Price.com points out something a bit ironic.
The earth is accumulating heat. Back in April 2023, the World Meteorological Association laid some important track in our understanding of this issue.