Much is made of the auto sector in both the US and Canada. It is thought of as the manufacturing heart of both countries and is fundamental to the ongoing success of the economy. On the flip side of that, the oil and gas energy industry is socially and politically Read more…
To someone living in the US or Canada, it probably appears that the whole world wants to shut down the oil and gas energy industry, but a slightly closer look shows nothing is further from the truth. Western energy is correctly considered the both the saviour of the third world Read more…
Like you we are overwhelmed with media events and press releases about new full electric and plug in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles. GM, for instance, has announced that they will offer more than 20 electrified vehicles by 2023 but details are slim. We want, names, prices, photo’s, and release dates. To Read more…
Canada is a group of diverse territories held together with a brilliant formula that effectively transfers money from wealthy Provinces to poor Provinces, or so the story goes. The official name is ‘Equalization Payments’ and they are a core building block of Canadian confederation. For the first 75 years of Read more…
This is a 5 minute highlight reel of the 45 minute Ford Mustang Mach E announcement. It includes specifications, pictures, videos, electronics, test drives, interior, exterior, pricing, release date, over the air updates explained and much more.
The United States is now produced more physical things (i.e. cars, buildings, clocks…) than it has at any time in its history but it actually REDUCING the amount of materials taken from the ground to do it. One word explains how can that came about: efficiency. There is still absolutely Read more…
Today one of linchpins of Canadian energy, EnCana, announced it is changing its name, has a new logo and is moving its ‘domicile’ (legal/trading head office) to the United States. Of course, they claim that there will be no job losses in Canada but that is clearly not the way Read more…
There are so many announcements of new electrics coming soon (like the Cadillac Escalade PHEV) and old electrics being replaced (like the Chevy Volt), we found it very difficult to get our heads around what electric vehicles were actually for sale. So we did some research and developed this list Read more…
What happens to oil pipelines in a post oil world? Many people think the massive expenditures in pipelines result in a permanent oil infrastructure. The fact is that pipelines originally constructed to move oil are both reversed and repurposed all the time. The graphic to the right is from 2014 and Read more…
It has been noted that during the gold rush most miners did not get rich, but the people who sold them their pick axes and dynamite certainty did. In the same vein Google has said it is not those with the most powerful computers that will win in the future, Read more…
Proton Technologies of Calgary has taken existing technologies and combined them into a method or ‘process patent’ that gives them exclusive rights to produce hydrogen in the ground. This means that all of the CO2 and other greenhouse gases remain locked in the ground where they have been for millions Read more…
The nuclear energy industry has a bad rap. Accidents at Fukushima Japan and Chernobyl Russia, using 1950’s technology, scared citizens and politicians into thinking that nuclear energy is both dangerous and dead. Even with these massive events, the fact is that nuclear was always RELATIVELY safe. We say relatively because Read more…
We have never had so much easy access to highly reliable scientific information but intentionally misleading fake news, politicians and interest groups promoting their pet agendas and outright crackpots have left the public scared and confused on so many issues. Nuclear power is one of those issues where the conventional Read more…
A few weeks ago, a small privately held Calgary startup named Proton Technologies announced they were successfully generating cheap hydrogen from old oil fields. Today we interviewed their CEO, Grant Strem, and learned that the company already had net positive cash flow with big plans for the near future. Producing Read more…