This little light of mine: The energy for this website, and where it comes from
“You owe it to yourself to do something creative with every breath you take.” or something like that – Maynard James Keenan live in 2012 (I’d had a few beers, sue me. Great show though) Writing a blog is more complicated than I thought when the idea first entered my head. I had some knowledge/ideas […]
Oil/Gas production: Harebrained headlines, or why the whole world is confused by energy information
If you read business websites and/or have any interest in petroleum (and who wouldn’t), you may notice headlines like this one from an energy patch publication called The Daily Oil Bulletin on Nov 14, 2014: U.S. Natgas Rig Count fell 6 at 350 – Baker Hughes . In itself, that’s a pretty cryptic message: who is […]
OPEC and oil prices: if you gave a dozen dysfunctional vagrants control of the global economy, what do you think would happen?
The business news is dominated by talk of crashing oil prices and the possible repercussions. Oil patch workers and anyone who thought shares in energy companies were a good idea are watching, slack jawed and pasty white, share prices get demolished and wondering if this really is the end of the oil era. Could be, […]
Fossil fuels vs. Solar energy: the expensive hunt for rotted dinosaurs shifts to the ultimate free lunch
As much as I love filling up at the pumps – the soothing smell, the spirit of contributing to the economy as the meter shows my cash disappear, the exhilarating sense of danger from knowing that an errant spark will blow me into the next neighborhood – I have to admit a solar powered future […]
Falling oil prices: Happy days at the pumps, Hummerized Priuses surely on the way, and what on earth happened anyway?
If you follow the news much, and if you don’t I don’t blame you, you may have noticed apocalyptic noises about how oil prices are, in ascending order of doom, in free fall, crashing, being obliterated, annihilated, etc., grand overstatements each trying to outdo the previous (in actuality, oil prices fell from around $100/barrel to […]
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