Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Amazing: California Will Ask EV Owners To Minimize Charging On Big Driving Day -- August 31, 2022

If my health holds, I should be around to see this.
  • California to ban gasoline-automobiles in thirteen years.
  • California to ban charging EVs in thirteen hours.
Southern California heat wave:
  • this is being reported everywhere;
  • top story in California today
  • link here and here but links everywhere;

OPEC: putting ducks in order to announce a million-bbl-day production cut.

  • already unable to meet current production quotas
  • every autumn Saudi Arabia cuts production as domestic demand for air conditioning plummets
  • a million-bbl-day cut is a non-story

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Back to the Bakken

The Far Side: link here.

WTI: $90.36.

Natural gas: $8.989.

No new wells coming off confidential list until Friday and then only one.

RBN Energy: incentives, technology have carbon capture poised for global breakout.

Not long ago, many considered large-scale industrial carbon capture to be a pie-in-the-sky concept. But neither the capturing of carbon dioxide (CO2) nor permanent underground sequestration is new — naturally occurring sources of CO2 have been used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for decades. And, with new financial incentives and a renewed sense of urgency regarding climate action, things are changing fast — so quickly, in fact, that the carbon-capture industry may be poised for exponential growth, both in the U.S. and abroad. Highlights discussed.

2 comments:

  1. Those folks in Cali need to buy a portable gas-powered generator to charge up their Tesla. Bing, that was an easy fix. :-)

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