It feels like only yesterday that the Texas power grid was on the verge of total failure. I know more than a few of you remember it well, too. If you remember, the sudden deep freeze that gripped...
I’ll bet there’s a few of the veteran members in our investment community that have heard of a company called Iridium. Back in 1998, Iridium switched on one of the most ambitious projects ever...
I don’t often do a full-blown double-take over a headline? I know we tend to be more skeptical of the hyperbolic nature of social media. More often than not, we’re more than justified for our...
Just about two years ago, a crew in central England worked their final shift at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant. And the moment the clock struck midnight, the last coal-fired power station in...
History has a knack for teaching us crucial lessons today. Take the silver miners in Saxony as a perfect example. Back in the 1500s, these miners kept hauling up a heavy, dull ore that should have...
There once was a plant nobody wanted. And 55 years ago, an oil company headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, used it to start shipping liquefied natural gas to Japan.
I’ll bet a few of you remember the Elon Musk promise Elon Musk made in 2017. You know, the one that most CEOs would’ve laughed off. At the time, southern Australia had just been through a...
Every morning, the same argument starts all over again. Tell me, how many barrels are making it through the Strait of Hormuz? That answer is more contested than you could ever imagine.
For about an hour on July 17, 1955, the town of Arco, Idaho, ran entirely on nuclear power. Even though it only served only about 1,200 people, that moment deserves its place in the history books...
Iceland had a problem in 1973. For my older readers, this energy crisis may feel eerily similar. You see, roughly half of Icelandic homes were heated with imported oil, and they relied on foreign...
Eighteen years ago, a rocket carrying nothing of particular value reached orbit. Not ringing a bell? It was the fourth flight of the Falcon 1 on September 28, 2008. Granted, the first three failed...
Four years ago, the U.S. and its allies did something that they’ve never really done before at such a scale. They froze about $300 billion of someone else’s money...
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