House Blocks Bill Meant To End US Support for Israel’s War in Lebanon

Is It Time For Von Der Leyen To Go? Via Remix News, Amidst continued fears regarding Putin attacking beyond Ukraine and economic uncertainty caused by the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Brussels is reportedly beginning to grumble, i.e., look for someone to blame and remove. Now, according to a report by Finnish public service media Yle, cited by Világgazdaság, voices are growing to remove the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Several European leaders, as well as NATO officials, have long warned that Moscow may potentially attack NATO states, which...

Major US Shale Producer To Boost Output, And It Suggests One Thing Last month, roughly three weeks into the U.S.-Iran conflict, UBS chief economist Arend Kapteyn told clients that one reason this Middle East energy shock is "not like the 2011-2014 shale boom" is the lack of a comparable response from the U.S. shale patch. In other words, the oil shock was viewed as temporary by major shale players and not worth adding new drilling rigs to the mix. But now, on day 35 of Operation Epic Fury, that assumption about...

Miniature Floating Nuclear Plants Could Supply Clean Power To Greek Islands Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, Miniature floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) could help Greek islands by supplying power, according to a new study. Such plants could also help decarbonize Greece's non-interconnected islands, according to the study by the Deon Policy Institute, ABS, Core Power, and Athlos Energy. The concept of floating nuclear power plants is not new. (Representational image) A floating nuclear power plant is a nuclear installation in which one or more reactors are integrated into a floating...