Energy Rant
Cut through the fluff with candid, expert takes on energy policy, programs, and industry trends. Written by our CEO, Jeff Ihnen, the Energy Rant is a blog that challenges assumptions, questions status quos, and delivers sharp insights with just the right dose of irreverence.
100 Years and 50,000 Feet Over Ukraine
I’m breaking my word from last week’s natural gas shakedown in which I noted I would write about customer ...
Natural Gas – Shakedown, 1979
My, how quickly some things can change, almost overnight, like natural gas markets. It seems only a year ago we ...
Specious Beliefs in Code Gods
I received a lot of feedback on last week’s Code Compliance Villains, which described blunders that occurred as ...
Indestructible Code Compliance Villains
In case you missed last week’s post, you’ll need to go back and review the setup for this week’s demonstration of ...
Code Compliance Setup – A Boiler Project
Over the last forty years, computers have become orders of magnitude more powerful while they have become much ...
Climate Change Resilience by Blunt Force Instrument
Per the last couple of posts, we examined policies, trends, and physics behind property destruction, storms, and ...
Climate Resilience – Tornadoes, Canes, and Curve Balls
This week we continue responding to the reader question, “What kind of home can withstand fire, hurricanes, ...
Climate Resilience – Flood, Fire, Ice
A reader last week asked, “What kind of home can withstand fire, hurricanes, floods, heat domes, and polar ...
Lucky Seven for 2022
While compiling the last post in which I reviewed the accuracy of my predictions for 2021, I realized that most of ...
Looking Back at the 2021 Forecast
Predicting the future with infinite degrees of freedom is hard, especially when projected years into the future. A ...
Homely But Smart Free Energy
I introduced exergy to readers 4.5 years ago, had a refresher on it for industrial decarbonization earlier this ...
Rabbit Holes and Electric Rates
Last week as I began writing the second DRIPE post, I started down an electric-utility-pricing rabbit hole. I ...
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