Alex Kimani

Latest articles from Alex

• Why The Covid Crisis Is A Pivotal Moment For Renewables

  Published 21 May 2020 | viewed 16,223 times

  The global energy and travel industries have been some of the hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis, with the energy market experiencing its biggest shock…

• Oil Climbs As Fears Of Negative Prices Fade

  Published 20 May 2020 | viewed 45,298 times

  Trader anxiety has earned a reprieve, with oil markets dodging one of many bullets after a key U.S. benchmark oil futures contract avoided a repeat…

• Should U.S. Shale Be Worried About A Chinese Takeover?

  Published 18 May 2020 | viewed 27,542 times

  American shale is easy prey as Beijing goes bargain-hunting.   China could soon embark on a global buying spree following the coronavirus-induced economic crisis and the re-opening…

• The Holy Grail Of Electric Vehicle Charging

  Published 17 May 2020 | viewed 39,470 times

  For all their hype and techno-wizardry, EVs still bow down to their gas-powered cousins when it comes to driving range, not to mention that they…

• LNG Price War Could Send Natural Gas Into Negative Territory

  Published 14 May 2020 | viewed 35,710 times

  Jousting for market share at a time of massive supply/demand imbalances was the key reason why oil markets recently entered uncharted waters after dipping into…

• 7 Oil Countries Hit Hard By The COVID-19 Crisis

  Published 12 May 2020 | viewed 33,368 times

  The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly evolved from a global health crisis to a financial one, upending industries, shuttering businesses, and sending financial markets reeling. Amid…

• Hand Sanitizer Boom Could Save The Ethanol Industry

  Published 11 May 2020 | viewed 41,087 times

  With widespread layoffs and furloughs hitting post-World War II records and a global economy deep in the throes of a recession, the economic devastation wrought by the…

• Bulls Call The Bottom In The Oil Market, But Are They Right?

  Published 10 May 2020 | viewed 50,617 times

  The current year is likely to go down in the annals of stock trading as one that set the biggest records, both good and bad.…

• Did The Plastics Boom End Before It Even Started?

  Published 07 May 2020 | viewed 12,713 times

  Three years ago, the UN declared plastic pollution a global crisis, more than three decades after the discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--a collection of marine…

• Is It The Right Time To Buy Into The Oil Price Rally?

  Published 05 May 2020 | viewed 52,850 times

  After a heavy dose of doom and gloom, the oil markets seem to be finally getting their footing back. Crude prices have almost fully retraced…

• Shell Has A Dire Warning For Oil Markets

  Published 04 May 2020 | viewed 291,443 times

  After months of a deep and harrowing slide, fuel demand across the world is finally starting to sputter back to life. Traffic data, pipeline flows, and…

• The Next Perovskite Solar Breakthrough Could Give Us Endless Energy By 2025

  Published 01 May 2020 | viewed 75,268 times

  Harnessing the motherlode of the sun’s power is almost within our reach.  The sun, our primary source of energy, bathes our Blue Planet in more…

• The Wave Of Shale Well Closures Has Finally Begun

  Published 30 April 2020 | viewed 113,994 times

  U.S. shale oil producers have so far held up admirably, hanging on for dear life amidst the biggest oil demand collapse in history. American producers continued…

• Chinese Investors Lost $1 Billion In Epic Oil Price Crash

  Published 30 April 2020 | viewed 45,640 times

  For many decades, the Chinese financial markets remained a tightly controlled affair that, for the most part, locked out foreign and exotic investments. That started…

• Oil Pirates Have A New Favorite Hotspot

  Published 29 April 2020 | viewed 28,689 times

  Gone are the days when Somalia's Gulf of Aden was considered the most dangerous piracy zone for oil companies and other seafarers. But now, with…

• Low Oil Prices May Kill Off The Next Nuclear Boom Before It Begins

  Published 27 April 2020 | viewed 35,996 times

  After a decade-long bear market, uranium has suddenly turned into a raging bull in an otherwise dismal market for commodities.  Uranium prices have surged 35…

• Low Oil Prices Won’t Hurt Tesla

  Published 26 April 2020 | viewed 10,869 times

  Many times in the past, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been labeled a 'cult stock' due to its vast investor interest despite the company's somewhat questionable or weak…

• $110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs

  Published 24 April 2020 | viewed 168,610 times

  As the world continues to grapple with the worst global pandemic in living memory, economists everywhere are warning that we are witnessing the unraveling of…

• Is This The End Of The World’s Largest Oil Fund?

  Published 21 April 2020 | viewed 38,587 times

  The oil markets have just gone through an epic long squeeze, with oil prices crashing into negative territory for the first time in history.  The May 2020…

• How The COVID-19 Plastic Boom Could Save The Oil Industry

  Published 19 April 2020 | viewed 69,363 times

  What happens when you give industries that are frequently ostracized for their role in environmental degradation an 'open license to pollute?' They take it with open arms.…