Miles Per Acre Per Year During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy,…
Vox Populi
Banx Capital Adopts BitShares 2.0 Block Chain Backbone
by newswire •
BitShares and Banx Capital Announce Partnership BitShares has announced a new partnership with #9 ranked cryptocurrency BanxShares backed by Banx Capital Ltd. In this partnership, Banx Capital and BanxShares will run on the BitShares 2.0 technology developed and licensed by…
Energy
How Much Energy Does The Super Bowl Use?
by Michael McDonald •
In the pantheon of American culture, no event is more iconic and distinctly American than the Super Bowl. Like all things American, the Super Bowl is huge, expensive, and a source of incredible passion for fans. Just running a 30-second…
Bitcoin, Cryptography, Current Events, Economics
BitShares Claims 100,000 Transactions Per Second On New SmartChain
by newswire •
The team at BitShares has been extremely quiet for the last several months, and apparently quite busy. The BitShares development team is now claiming that they can process 100,000 transactions per second. To put this another way, that is as many…
Economics, Energy
Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth
by Andrew Topf •
The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories said to contain enough oil to rival the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana.…
Current Events, Economics, Energy
The Evolution Of The Oil Weapon
by John Manfreda •
In the age of derivatives, swaps, and electronic money transfers, a new form of warfare has emerged: financial warfare. Recently, the US has passed sanctions on countries such as Syria, Venezuela, and North Korea , but the majority of energy…
Vox Populi
Saudi Arabia Continues To Turn Screws On U.S. Shale
by James Stafford •
Saudi Arabia continues to ratchet up production, taking market share away from U.S. shale producers. According to OPEC’s latest monthly oil report, Saudi Arabia boosted its oil output to 10.31 million barrels per day in April, a slight increase over…