Thought Piece For Judith Curry, one of the two climate science skeptics on the panel, the idea that an increase in carbon automatically increases the earth’s temperature is too simplistic. She said earth has many complex systems and there could be other factors playing into climate change that we don’t yet understand, wrote Jake Jarvis. “The [...]
Thought Piece FCC Chairman Still Receiving Threats Over ‘Net Neutrality’ This is a very troubling story, especially for a democracy like the US. How dare any group harass and threaten the family of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai? As a veteran of the Open Access battles of 1999-2001, I freely admit I think that the whole “Net [...]
Thought Piece The Climate-Change Tort Racket: Liberal cities join the contingency-fee bar to shake down oil firms. I had another nightmare last night about Global Warming (aka Climate Change), that US cities started suing national and international energy companies on the thinnest of legal precedent. Then, I woke up and remembered that San Francisco, Oakland, New [...]
Thought piece Today in Marcellus Drilling News, Jim Willis published a great piece on ethane crackers, storage hubs, and economic development for Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In particular, Jim does a great job connecting the dots between the technological and economic complexity of shale production and its distribution. The Appalachian Basin is starting to provide [...]
Thought Piece Cost-Benefit Reform at the EPA: Under Obama, the EPA juked the numbers to justify costly regulation. It is about time that the EPA returns to the fiscal discipline of cost and benefit analysis, after 8 years of torturing the numbers and changing basic definitions while choosing its preferred reports, studies, University, and scientific authors. [...]
Thought Piece The descent of climate-change activism into identity politics is a sign that it has lost vitality, writes @stevenfhayward While I have been a Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency advocate for the last 18 years, I have been worried about the stranded costs of much of the previous tranches of renewable technology? Going forward, there [...]
Thought Piece My economic argument about Ohio centers around the wide ranging benefits of economic development with or without the direct revenue of shale. Undoubtedly, the large manufacturing value of indirect feedstock will power a wide ranging petrochemical industry in Ohio. Then, there are the new NG electricity cost savings for large users, lower residential electric [...]
Thought Piece The Double Standards of Reporting About the McCarthy and Pruitt EPAs The coverage about the last two EPA Directors, Gina McCarthy and Scott Priutt, could not be more different. For the ahistorical, the McCarthy EPA was found communicating with the writers of the “Indirect Health Benefit” before-during-after the 2015 Report was finished. The collusion [...]
Thought Piece "California Delusions About Broadband and the Future" There is a rapid convergence of energy, technology and broadband (aka The Internet of Things). However, the IOT will require Big Data, Big Infrastructure, Big Technology and Really Big Broadband. All of the last White House’s FCC and current California’s “Net Neutrality” initiatives harken to the [...]
Thought Piece First, I was there during Dr. Mann’s testimony on March 29, 2017 in front of the Committee of Science, Space, and Technology, where he compared himself to a oppressed Russian scientist from the Stalin era: As he put it, “Call people ‘deniers” all you want, use any name you want...beat them into submission, that’s [...]
