Battery Storage Fires Put A Different Face on “Green Energy”

Battery Storage Fires Put A Different Face on “Green Energy” Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician   [Editor’s Note: Battery storage and the risks it involves are the dirty little secret regarding “green energy.” The fires are hellish and are a clear and present danger to all.] Due to the intermittent nature of renewable

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Offshore Wind Promoters Paving the Road to Energy Hell

Offshore Wind Promoters Paving the Road to Energy Hell Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician   [Editor’s Note: Off-shore wind via politically correct governors, is the world’s biggest boondoggle; it busts our budgets, ruins our shores and paves the way to energy hell.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines to replace fossil fuel

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Power Plants or Candles? The Stark Options for Non-Elites!

Power Plants or Candles? The Stark Options for Non-Elites! Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician   [Editor’s Note: Using unsettled science, Joe Biden and Kathy Hochul want to shut down power plants, forcing a shift to green corporatist boondoggles enriching the already rich.] The EPA’s proposed rules for cutting emissions are so onerous that

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 20, 2023

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 20, 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: the Big Apple is sinking into the ocean, FERC is hitting the siren on

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Josh Shapiro: Will He Sell Out Labor to Please Enviros?

Josh Shapiro: Will He Sell Out Labor to Please Enviros? Gordon Tomb Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition   .. …. [Editor’s Note: Josh Shapiro will now face a huge test. Will he, like some many other Dems, sell out his labor allies to please enviros or balance energy and environment?] With Democrat

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Tom Wolf and His RGGI Will Drive Our Energy Prices Ever Higher

Tom Wolf and His RGGI Will Drive Energy Prices Ever Higher! Gordon Tomb Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition   .. …. [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf will be the “lone wolf” still defending RGGI when it has driven Pennsylvania’s energy prices to the highest ever, but at least he’ll finally be gone.] Already

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Biden War on Oil and Gas Yields Record High Energy Prices

Biden War on Oil and Gas Yields Record High Energy Prices David Blackmon Editor, Shale Magazine Co-Host, The Oil Patch Radio … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is an angry flailing zombie shoved into a Presidency he can’t handle. His oil and gas policies reflect it, portending apocalypse ahead for consumers.] Seemingly determined to repeat

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – July 10, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. Guy Who Brags He “Cares About the Planet” Breathed“Sigh of Relief” When Cuomo Killed the Southern Tier John Szalasny, the fellow

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Natural Gas Keeps Electricity Cheap and Plentiful in Pennsylvania

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas fired generation of electricity has been a huge win for Pennsylvania thanks to Marcellus Shale development. An article yesterday at Today In Energy reveals an important but seldom appreciated fact about about natural gas; that an electricity generating facility using it can achieve capacity factors of

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New Natural Gas Record for Power Generation Set

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) put out a fascinating article last week that should make the hair go up on

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Coal to Natural Gas CO2 Emission Reductions Key to Climate Stabilization

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Shifting from coal to natural gas in power plant operations is a key strategy for reducing CO2 emissions and stabilizing the climate, says new study. A new study published in a journal called Nature Climate Change says reducing CO2 emissions via a shift from coal to natural gas

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Crews break ground on Monroe County power plant

Crews recently broke ground on a new energy-efficient, gas-fired power plant at the Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Monroe County, Ohio, according to WTOV9. The Long Ridge Energy Generation Project has been in the works for a few years, and the 25 acres will soon be home to a new gas-fired plant. The plant will

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Combined-Cycle Natural Gas Power Beats Everything Else

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Combined-cycle natural gas power plants offer lower cost electricity than anything else, especially renewables, the true costs of which are never counted. Our friends at the Institute of Energy Research have come out with a study that finally examines the true costs of renewables, including their impacts on

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – May 11, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Our readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Lansing Town Board Deals with Looney Lansing Moratorium Our buddy Jim Willis picked up on this crazy story about the

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A Tale of Three Countries, CO2 Emissions and the Cure

  Energy Builders, the folks who deliver heat to our thermostats, tell the story of CO2 emissions, three countries and one making all the difference. Most people believe that our climate is changing, and that greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from burning fossil fuels are contributing to the change. Within hours, greenhouse

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