EPA’s Methane Policy: Statistically Trivial For The Planet And Terrible For The Economy
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to protect civilization from methane. Methane is, essentially, natural gas. And is it ever “natural.”
The Clean Power Plan Will Collide With The Incredibly Weird Physics Of The Electric Grid
There’s a lot that’s already been written about the Clean Power Plan (CPP): Google it and you find 71 million hits (at least as I write this). A lot more will be written yet. The scale of the CPP predictably and properly has ignited widespread debate.
The Pope’s Perceptive Paragraph About Air Conditioning
It was perhaps no coincidence that Pope Francis singled out air conditioning as an example of “harmful” consumption in his June 18 Environmental Encyclical, mere days before the Northern Hemisphere was fully into summer.
Energy Realities And Big Data Complicate The Pope’s Call To Abandon Fossil Fuels
It is impossible to talk today about energy issues without beginning with an acknowledgement of the Pope’s Environmental Encyclical that was officially released today, and leaked globally earlier this week.
Oil Glut Part 4: The (Next) Shale Technology Revolution That Worries OPEC
This Friday OPEC meets in Vienna. The elephant in the room is the very visible impact of America’s shale fields on world oil markets. The technologies that have unleashed U.S. shale hydrocarbons have resulted in the fastest growth in oil production in a century.
Oil Glut Part 3: Big Data Will Propel The Next U.S. Shale Oil Boom
The spectacular emergence of an industry that drills in shale formations to produce hydrocarbons is generating massive quantities of untapped data. The $600 billion in U.S. shale infrastructure investments and the nearly 2,000 million well-feet drilled has produced hundreds of petabytes of relevant data.