Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

One gallon per day is not the throughput expected from a refinery. It is, however, the claimed pace of a new class of compact machines that try to make gasoline without starting from petroleum by treating air, water and electricity as the feedstock. That ambition sits inside a broader industrial...

"A country can sit on the world's largest proven crude reserves and still become an energy bottleneck. Venezuela's oil patch-once a pillar of heavy-crude supply for U.S. refineries-spent years decaying under under investment, sanctions friction, and operational brain drain. The result is an industry that looks less like a...

Once Alan Kay said that the best way to foretell the future is to make it. That appears to be what Apple has been planning in 2026, aligning a swarm of gadgets and technology that will perhaps recast its world. Foldable iPhones and AI-based assistants are just a few...