Cheap Energy for the Holidays: Saudi Arabia handing out Christmas presents?
Chances are that in your part of the world gas prices are lower than they have been in a long time. Less widely noticed, unless your hobbies include scrutinizing utility bills or obscure commodity markets, is that natural gas prices are in the same state of affairs. While producers of these commodities spend th […]
Paris Climate conference: The right way to view it
The Paris climate conference has been viewed by much of the world as an absolutely critical event to save the world from catastrophe. That may be partly self-interest, because it looks like most of the world attended. At any rate, the last conference in Copenhagen, six years ago or something, didn’t produce a comprehensive […]
Would you put a GoPro on an accountant? The problem with energy reporting
Imagine that you are responsible for the content of a big news site, with a large readership and paying subscribers, and your job is to make sure eyeballs are glued to your site every day. When a certain type of person is nervous and in front of an audience, they jabber away without […]
Obama kills Keystone pipeline, are we saved from global warming?
In trying to explain energy issues in layman’s terms, it is really hard to tackle the Keystone pipeline. It’s hard to explain why a single pipeline, the dull-witted oaf of the infrastructure world, got people so worked up, especially in light of the fact that there are thousands of them under our feet. It won’t […]
What will make solar power go mainstream?
The last post here was overly critical of solar power to some, so as a tranquilizer here’s another side of the story. It’s not a counterpoint, because there is no counterpoint: solar power in itself has an environmental footprint like everything else. We can’t condone or ignore negative impacts of something because it’s being done […]
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