The Problem With Innovation: The Biggest Companies Are Hogging All the Gains

Thought Piece “Since the industrial revolution, major innovations have filtered from company to company and industry to industry. Not anymore, and that’s a problem.” It is worth mentioning that the following Op-Ed excludes any discussion of the current state of US innovation and economic development, especially in the energy, petrochemical, and electricity sectors. Maybe, this piece [...]

By |2018-07-20T16:02:07-05:00July 16th, 2018|Categories: Thought Piece|Tags: |10 Comments

Oil’s New Technology Spells End of Boom for Roughnecks

Thought Piece Technology has undermined one of the last high-paying blue-collar jobs: “You can’t just start out swinging and hauling iron anymore.” Natural gas is a long, long, wide, clean, and ample bridge fuel, because it has continued to innovate by employing advanced technology and what is being called “digital data twin.” Also, there is the [...]

By |2018-07-20T16:11:29-05:00July 13th, 2018|Categories: Energy, Thought Piece|Tags: , |6 Comments