This week BP (NYSE: BP) released their Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. This is always a big event for energy wonks, and as always I will break it down in a series of articles. […]
When the Wind Doesn’t Blow
Every morning after I wake up, I have a routine. The first thing I do, regardless of how sleepy I might still be, is slip on my shoes and run a mile. This erases the […]
The MLP Parity Act is a No-Brainer for Renewable Energy
Introduction to MLPS A Master Limited Partnership (MLP) is a publicly traded partnership with a tax structure that enables it to attract low-cost capital. The main attraction of an MLP from an investor’s point of view […]
Hoping for a Rational Climate Change Discussion
The Best Path Forward on Coal? This week the Wall Street Journal is running the latest set of answers from their “Experts Panel.” Four questions were posed to the energy panel, and I chose to […]
How Fossil Fuels Subsidize Us
Meet Nate Hagens A good friend of mine said something to me the other day that I thought was profound. Nate Hagens is a former editor for The Oil Drum, and has written and lectured […]
Keystone XL’s Emissions Versus Coal-Fired Power
Another Courageous Punt I hadn’t planned to write yet another Keystone XL pipeline article, but I have gotten a lot of questions since the recent announcement by the Obama administration that they are still unable to […]
Renewable Hydrogen on the Big Island
The Big Island For the past five years, home for me has been on the northern end of the island of Hawaiʻi. For those unfamiliar with the Hawaiian islands, they consist of eight major islands. […]
How Do You Justify Consuming ExxonMobil’s Oil?
Introduction Sometimes the written word is easy to misinterpret. More than once I have written an article to find that some minor point I made became the focus, or that the point I was making […]
How We Can Industrialize the Internet of Things
For today’s column, I bring you a guest post from Kevin Klustner. Kevin is the CEO of Powerit Solutions, an international energy management technology company. How We Can Industrialize the Internet of Things By Kevin […]
KiOR: The Fat Lady Warms Up Her Voice
Predictions In January of this year, as I do each year, I made several predictions for 2014. One was that natural gas prices would be higher. That prediction is looking pretty solid, with natural gas […]