Blowout Week 249

This week's feature story exposes the mess  Germany's Energiewende has become, and in the follow-up story how it's torpedoing Europe's carbon emissions goals. Coming after we have the Trump-OPEC war of words; Saudi Arabia abandons its $200 billion solar project; Shell's $12 billion Canadian LNG project; the world's "coal binge"; Australia's Liddell coal plant to close; the Belgian reactor shutdown; UK SMR companies ask for billions in government support; the EU to cut vehicle emissions, Denmark to ban petrol and diesel vehicles; power-to-gas energy storage in UK; wind turbines cause warming; Elon Musk defies the SEC and how California Gov. Jerry Brown will make the sun shine at night. Continue reading →