Thought Piece [I have going to NARUC meetings for the last 15 years, but I expect this winter meeting to be an exciting mix of topics and discussions. If you have the time, you should join the 1500 or so attendees, as they chart the path of the 50 state utilities for the next decade. See you there. Steve] [...]
Thought Piece [As Bjorn Lomborg points out, "by far the largest source of renewable energy used in China is traditional biomass—that is, people burning charcoal, firewood and dung, as China’s poor do to stay warm. Biomass is the biggest source of killer air pollution in the world." While the Western world ties itself up in knots about [...]
Thought Piece In an effort to be balanced on the super-storm of debate caused by yesterday's expose in the London Mail written by David Rose, I have reprinted Dr. John Bates' original article, published on February 4, 2017, which a day earlier than the Mail piece. The myriad of points of view and points of fact (509 [...]
Thought Piece Fake News or Not: To date, none of the major media or climate "news" sites have mentioned this London Mail challenge to the global warming data. The next few days will tell us much about the US scientific community and academia. If this Mail is "fake news," then it deserves to be exposed, just as [...]
Thought Piece The evidence continues to mount that several climate agencies, like the NOAA and NASA, have been cooking the climate books for years; and, to make matters worse, the major media exaggerates the cooked books, because it believes that its consumers aren't sophisticated enough to understand the actual numbers and their margins for error. The recent [...]
Thought Piece There are two factors that this Financial Tribune pieces does not mention, both of which clearly favor US shale. One, the impetuous to build new pipelines such as the Keystone Pipeline, Dakota Access Pipeline and several pipelines alone the upper east coast, all of which are expected to reduce transportation $5 to $7 dollar barrel; [...]
Thought Piece Ajit Pai will return to the four principles of internet freedom first outlined by former FCC Chairman Michael Powell: "freedom of access to lawful content; freedom to use applications; freedom to attach personal devices to the network; and freedom to obtain service plan information." These principles allow for the future of the Internet, broadband and the [...]
Thought Piece Reposting article from Dent Research. Jan 30, 22:32 GMT OPEC producers are cutting production… or so they say. Keeping Your DUCs in a Row Dent Research Team of Analysts Dent Research nd in addition, several non-OPEC producers, like Russia, are also cutting production. If history is any guide we could do away with the [...]
Thought Piece Below is the written dialogue between Robert Tracinski of the Federalist and Justin Gillis of the New York Times. No author of surrealistic fiction could have done better. New York Times: Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming Numbers “When I challenged him about the 'hottest year on record,' a New York [...]
Thought Piece For all of the credit-taking by the EPA and other federal agencies, I think that Ken Colburn has it just about right. The power markets are inexorably changing over to natural gas, improving/upgrading the power grid, and developing energy efficiencies with the help of their State Utilities Commissioners. In fact, energy efficiencies and emission [...]
