Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
This piece by friend Emmet Penney — one of the sharpest conservative energy writers in the business — raises a sharp point I haven’t seen elsewhere — depressed oil prices means less drilling which means less gas production which means higher prices for the fuel that supplies the bulk of our electricity. Meanwhile, Trump doesn’t seem to get this and his consigliere Elon Musk is saying one thing to promote his own business while doing something totally different to supply his other business. https://www.compactmag.com/article/trump-must-fix-the-grid/
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HackingThroughLife
@hnnhstphnz
I have mixed opinions on the need for more gas. Nuclear could be cool. We need a lot of energy but also better grid infrastructure, the least sexy thing the talk about. Does this piece talk about all of the gas we get from Canada? Do I wish solar and batteries could support AI on its own? Yeah, but the reality isn’t such case. I’m not seeing interconnection or permitting timelines decrease on the distributed side, and I can’t imagine transmission is any different? Although I know there are various working groups across the public utilities to speed it up.
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Terry Bain
@terrybain
Yeah it’ll mean more closed rigs so when foreign production goes back down the prices will rocket back up and they’ll stay there too. Morons.
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Ghost 🎩
@ghostbo4.eth
We can all agree on one thing that trump is a businessman
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