Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Our Electric Grid Gordon Tomb Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Our guest blogger, Gordon Tomb, recently gave an excellent presentation to the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association and the full text follows.] First, I want to say how glad I am to be in
Read More...EVs Aren’t Going Away, But They’re Hardly the Future! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: EVs have a role to play in transportation but will only serve as dreamy replacement vehicles until blackouts and parking and range restrictions force a wakeup.] It hasn’t gotten much coverage in the so-called mainstream media, but more
Read More...Industry Preparedness, Guarding of Energy Supplies, Critical George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: Our energy infrastructure is under constant threat and industry preparedness is critical to protecting our essential energy supplies from a variety of threats.] An unfortunate reality of guarding our nation’s infrastructure, including petroleum and natural gas and
Read More...Pittsburgh Airport Gets Smart with Natural Gas! George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: The Pittsburgh Airport has developed its own smart energy grid based largely upon natural gas with supplemental solar energy and it is very smart indeed.] With more than a year of construction under its belt, the Pittsburgh International
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – January 28, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; Mississippi solar madness, fat cat power seekers, water questions and tipsy towers. Look for these
Read More...... … … Wind and solar projects are facing many uphill battles despite a ton of subsidies and incentives provided to corporatist sponsors of these uneconomical projects. New wind installations dropped 77.5 percent in the third quarter of 2022 versus the same period the year before. New utility-scale solar installations fell about 40 percent in
Read More...Speed Is No Issue Unless It’s About How Fast Liberty Is Lost Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Speed is the sprit of freedom and bureaucrats threatened by it once thought they could just con drivers out of it. Today, they’re trying to con drivers into EVs.] A speedometer by itself is not
Read More...Galicia Goofs Up As Foz Fights Becoming A Windy City David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Galicia mandates a power plant that has to be five times the normal size required for reliability because it will also be required to use only wind for energy. There are so many
Read More...Fuel Oil Saves the Day for New England Virtue Signalers Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: New England politicians have made the region’s grid vulnerable to blackouts and dependent on fuel oil due to their pig-headed virtue signaling obsession.] We came “this close” to a major electricity blackout
Read More...Renewable Energy Propaganda from CNBC Fails Smell Test! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: CNBC is hardly a reliable truth teller but, as David Blackmon notes, its story this week on renewable energy offers more distortions than a fun house mirror. It would take a good 5,000 words to
Read More...Travel? You Want to Travel? Show Me Your Papers! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Our right to travel where we want is under attack by those who would make us serfs and restore feudalism, which is one of the primary goals of our ruling class.] Anyone who’s seen “The Perfect Storm” knows
Read More...Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: The idea electric cars can completely replace vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is – at its most innocent – a pipe dream. Too many believers in that dream are fooling nobody other than themselves.] There are times when laughing
Read More...Grid Going Sickly Green and Needs to Be NERCed and FERCed David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: The electrical grid is sick and getting sicker, according to David Wojick, and only tangible action by an outfit called NERC (or FERC) can save the thing.] It is no secret
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 5, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; the ESG scam, Biden’s high energy prices, more grid grief and an angry old
Read More...Grid Grief: Ideologues Refuse to Acknowledge the Big Problem! ... … … [Editor’s Note: There are, as the quote goes, none so blind as those who refuse to see. That’s the case with our electric grid, which is incapable of delivering green energy.] To reach the Biden administration’s goal of a zero-carbon grid by 2035,
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