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Southwest Airlines Limits Passengers To One Portable Charger On Flights Southwest Airlines is limiting passengers to one lithium portable charger each - "to strengthen our ability to contain and mitigate lithium battery incidents, including reducing the risk of battery fires," the airline said in a Tuesday statement. A Southwest Airlines flight arrives at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 8, 2025. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Passengers will also be prohibited from recharging their devices using in-seat power outlets, and the chargers must remain in an under-seat carry-on bag or on their person.  The new...

Europe Dodges A Rhine Crisis For The Worst Possible Reason Authored by Natalia Katona via OilPrice.com, Rhine freight from ARA to Karlsruhe has surged from €45/t to €215/t as Kaub remains below the 77-cm threshold needed for normal commercial traffic. The squeeze is disrupting 3.1 million t/y of ethylene capacity and product movements from the 320,000-b/d Miro refinery. Europe is avoiding a deeper crisis only because crackers are running at around 70% and fuel demand is weak. The Rhine has slightly risen from its mid-August record low (when Kaub's water level gauge - at...

Quantum Computing Flees Europe Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker, Caught between climate regulation and catastrophic energy-policy decisions, a growing number of high-tech companies in the EU are packing up and leaving. Through stock-market deals, two top quantum-computing companies, IQM and Pasqal, are gradually moving toward the United States. The bleeding of the European economy is now being accepted with remarkable resignation. Not a week goes by without another disaster report from the economy. In the first half of the year, the German economy recorded a record number of insolvencies --...