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 […]
Gas Inventories Reach 11-Year Low
Natural Gas Update Two weeks ago I wrote about the abnormal situation with natural gas inventories in Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero. I got a number of questions and comments about that essay, and […]
Why Biofuels Tend to be Costly
Catching Up I have gotten some inquiries about my status, as I don’t typically go two weeks between posts. I am fine, but it’s been a very busy two weeks. There was lots of travel, […]
Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero
This winter has been one of the coldest on record. It’s been the coldest winter in at least 30 years, and I saw a report today that there is a chance that this will be […]
Solving the Midwest Ethanol Problem
What Ethanol Problem? If you live in the Midwest, you are in the midst of a thriving ethanol industry. But the Midwest does not control its own destiny when it comes to ethanol. That is […]
Coal Emissions Equal an Athabasca Oil Sands Reserve Every 4 Years
A Disproportionate Response I had intended to write an article today outlining some potential solutions to the Midwest’s ethanol predicament, but some recent exchanges on Twitter prompted me to postpone that for a week. The […]
Like Michael Jordan Playing Baseball
What 60 Minutes Got Right Following the recent 60 Minutes story The Cleantech Crash, Katie Fehrenbacher at Gigaom wrote a very good article called What 60 Minutes got right and wrong in its story on […]
My 2014 Energy Predictions
In the previous article, I graded the 2013 predictions that I made a year ago. I scored well on the direction of oil and gas prices, the shrinking Brent-West Texas Intermediate (WTI) differential, and continued […]