The Global Shale Gas Revolution (Dear Renewables: Meet the New Competition...
Editor’s note: This article is the first of two posts on shale gas production and concerns the U.S. situation. The second will look at the potential impacts of shale gas production in Europe and China....
View ArticleGas From Shale Deposits: A Worldwide Game-Changer? (Part II)
Editor’s note: This article is the second of two on shale gas production. The first dealt with the U.S. situation; this one looks at the potential impacts of shale gas production in Europe and China....
View ArticleThe Bear Growls, The EU Grovels: Adventures in the European Gas Market
Among those hoping that global warming is real we should now count the EU. As winter approaches there is, quelle surprise, the initial hint of yet another gas supply crisis between Russia, Ukraine and...
View ArticleDear Tom Friedman: Don’t Want You to Die Off … Just Get Well!
In the New York Times editorial page’s latest excursion into shrill climate alarmism, foreign affairs correspondent Thomas Friedman accuses those opposing the current cap-and-tax bill as wanting a few...
View ArticlePower Generation Industry Forecast: Natural Gas as Fuel of Choice, Little...
“It’s déjà vu all over again,” said Yogi Berra. The baseball Hall of Famer could easily have been predicting the coming resurgence of new natural gas–fired power plants. A couple of nuclear plants may...
View ArticleBig Wind: How Many Households Served, What Emissions Reduction? (A Case...
In the midst of a bitter winter in North America and Europe, General Electric has announced a large wind project to be built in Oregon. Press reports in the Financial Times and USA Today describe a...
View ArticleBig Wind: How Many Households Served, What Emissions Reduction? (Part 2)
Press reports in the Financial Times and other news outlets describe a wind project in Oregon with 338 machines of 2.5 MW each, giving a total capacity of 845 MW. The project sponsors claim that they...
View ArticleThe Bear Growls a Bit More Softly Now: New Adventures in Pipelinestan
In the wake of the BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and the attempted terrorist bombing of New York’s Times Square, the broadcast media have been full of the sackcloth and ashes crowd pronouncing...
View ArticleAmerica’s Gift: High Technology and Lower Prices (peak gas not!)
In a raft of articles on this blog and elsewhere, the surge in U.S. gas production–due mostly to rapidly increasing output from shale formations–has been touted as a key savior of domestic drillers and...
View ArticleFractured Fairy Tales: Why Not Liberate Energy Technology for the 100%?
The anti-industrial “green” movement, which once played nice with natural gas, is at war against hydraulic fracturing (fracing). Peak gas fears may be gone, and parasitic wind energy would crash...
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