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.
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 ...
Reverse Efficiency Beatings with DRIPE
Does more industrial [or commercial or residential] energy efficiency lower energy prices for all? That is a ...
An Appetizer Into DRIPE, the Main Course
What do you envision from the word dripe? I think of boiling cowhides as feedstock for collagen peptides in the ...
Pretty Pleas to the Purchasing Department
I have a lot of gray hair. It’s a little frightening to see the age setting in when I see myself on video, but the ...
Save the Ships for the Energy Transition
I’m not a casino gambler because I know who wins. I learned long ago that a stock is worth what the next guy will ...
Next Up: A Wild Energy Ride
It has been a frothy year for the energy industry, and it will continue well into next year and beyond. How far? ...
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