Tootfinder

"#Iran and the #US have said ships should pass through the strait via two competing routes, with Iran bombing ships that take the southern route, close to the coast of Oman, and the US bombing ships that violate its blockade of Iranian ships and ports."
The sheer total irresponsibility of anyone deliberately bombing loaded oil tankers is just staggering.

Iran strikes tankers under US escort in Hormuz strait as Trump gathers cabinet to discuss war
Energy prices have soared again since fighting between US and Iran resumed two weeks ago as conflict spreads across Middle East

Low Carbon Investments @Home (2018) - How I cut carbon with negawatts, ISAs, SIPPs and start-ups. How best to put time and effort into a greener low-carbon future? - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-carbon-investing.html

Low Carbon Investments @Home (2018)
How I cut carbon with negawatts, ISAs, SIPPs and start-ups. How best to put time and effort into a greener low-carbon future?

PSI, which aims to use AI "to industrialize the discovery of new physics" including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/can-ai-crack-interstellar-travel…

Can AI help crack interstellar travel?
AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics. On Tuesday, the AI-native physics research lab, Physical Superintell...

Oil stocks in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fall by 3.7 million barrels to their lowest level since 1982.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-stocks-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-fall-by-37-million-barre…

An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/strait-of-hormuz-possible-reopening-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p144#a260803p144

SSEN was successful in the latest round of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund with a project exploring the use of roaming MPANs, which would allow you to use your home's energy supply at a public charging point.
#EV

The US-led AI boom is offsetting the global growth squeeze from the energy crunch; ING says the boom accounts for about a third of recent US economic growth (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/e…

So far, we know that no explosives were found at that US strategic bomber base in England, that the Trump regime suggests Iran is to blame, and that the Iranian regime says it's not.
https://nos.nl/l/2633033

VS ziet buitenlandse inmenging bij incident rond Britse luchtmachtbasis
In de busjes van de verdachten zijn geen explosieven gevonden; wel is er een hoeveelheid benzine aangetroffen, zegt de politie.

"Economic instability has many causes. Of late, the UK has endured banking crises, energy shocks, Brexit, supply chain disruption and pandemics. None of these arose because government borrowing was too high." — @…
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them

I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them
John Healey’s appointment as Chancellor surprised many people, me included. The biggest reason for surprise was that he has no record as an economic thinker. As I noted on Monday evening, he might have spent time in the Treasury under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but since then he has shown...

Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz US territory after 'finishing defeating Iran' (very badly, pretty soon).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/trump-says-he-will-declare-hormuz-us-territory/107041530

Trump says he will soon declare Strait of Hormuz US territory
US President Donald Trump says he will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, escalating his rhetoric over the vital waterway that carries a significant share of global oil supplies.