Category: Energy, Electricity, Economic Prosperity and Environmental Protection
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830,000 Btu’s per Day/Person
Congress and our President are in the process of forcing Net Zero Carbon, Green Energy on all of us. In my view what this will do is increase prices of energy, make our energy less reliable, make America less competitive and in general, harm our quality of life. In thinking about this and attempting to…
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93.5% of America’s energy is used in Heat-engines to drive our economy and power our comfortable lives: 80% is from fossil fuels
This huge amount of energy is not easily replaced by alternative fuels! My response to an ASME webinar on forcing a “Green Grid” on America. All Fuels Are Important, but Thermal Power Generation Is Still Number 1 Last month I participated in a continuing education webinar presented by the ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine. I was…
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Sustainability of our high quality of life depends on reasonable cost electricity
“Energy, is the only universal currency” The author of several books on energy, Vaclav Smil is quoted as saying “Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.” Most American citizens simply…
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Earth Day: Let’s Celebrate True Sustainability and a continuance of our high quality of life
Reasonable cost, abundant and efficient energy has improved the lives of billions of people all over the world. The relationship of energy use and Quality of life for humankind has been proven. But, you would not know it listening to Green extremist viewpoints. I do not need to elaborate on who some of them are.…
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All Fuels are important! A review of the Reality of Competitive Electricity Generation and the supply of needed Transportation fuels
The President has re-engaged the Obama Administration “War on Carbon” and signed executive orders to kill pipelines, restrict drilling and production of oil and gas on Federal lands and to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. If not rescinded, this will cripple American economic growth and prosperity. For decades I have promoted policies of “ALL FUELS…
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Part 6: A Thriving Economy and clean air too
In the preceding posts, energy and it’s relationship to economic prosperity are discussed. The clear example of the use of energy and electricity to power economies of entire countries are discussed using the example of the U.S.A.’s economic prosperity from the advent of coal powered central station power plants 1882-2012. During this 130 year period,…
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Part 5: Dick Storm’s Thoughts on the “Green New Deal”
Energy Part 5: Thoughts on The New Green Deal and (so-called) Renewable Energy Introduction Energy and economic prosperity go together. In part 4 I posted some facts on the growth of American industry over the last 140 years since electricity became commercialized. China has managed to expand their primary metals and manufacturing production to exceed…
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Part 4, The Importance of Energy to Economic Prosperity
INTRODUCTION, The Rise of the American Economy Economic prosperity and energy use have gone hand in hand for most of history. This blog is about the importance of energy today so let’s just go back about 140 years or so. The first battery in the world was invented by Antonio Volta at the beginning of…
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The Importance of Energy, Part 2, Our Energy Sources
This chapter will focus on the sources and fuels of energy for the U.S.A. The average American likely believes our electricity is coming mostly from renewable sources. Why? Because we are all indoctrinated with advertisements and Mainstream News Media reports on massive solar and wind farms. Well the true story is that over 80% of…
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The Importance of Energy to Power High Quality of Life, Part 1
The citizens of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia are all accustomed to having abundant, reliable and reasonable cost energy and electricity. Not until a hurricane or extreme weather comes when power lines are downed, do Americans appreciate the importance of energy and electricity to power our way of life. My goal in this Blog…
Power for the U.S.A. 