Category: Energy, Politics and Economic Prosperity
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The War on Carbon, How it Came to be:
Climate Change has been going on since well before the Romans. Certainly well before coal was burned for power generation. Yet, the main stream news is fixated on Climate Change being the result of the Developed World’s use of Fossil Fuels over the last 100 years. The MSM has completely blown off the possibility that…
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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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Energy, Human development index and economic prosperity
Two Examples: America in the 20th Century and China in the 21st I prepared for a presentation to USCB-OLLI on the history of Energy and Electricity. Along the way of preparing it hit me. Few professors of either history or engineering discuss the relationship of energy and Economic prosperity or for Developing Countries, the relationship…
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US war on carbon accomplishes two things
I was just reading in the morning wsj that another pipeline (in addition to Keystone) has been shut down between Canada and the US. This one operated by Enbridge was a new pipeline to replace a 67 year old existing pipeline with newer, safer construction. This action is apparently by the Governor of Michigan. But,…
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My Paid Ad for ENERGY AWARENESS IN 2015 & HERE We Go Again
I came across the ad below which was a paid ad, published April 21, 2015, Some things do not change very much regarding where we get our energy and how we use it. At the time, I was living in NC and I was very concerned about the anti energy, anti-nuclear policies of President Obama.…
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China’s Economic Influence in the World and Some Thoughts on the need to Reshore American Manufacturing
If America Was the Arsenal of Democracy for the Allies in WWII, Then What to Think of The Rise of China? I voted for and support President Trump for reelection in 2020 because, I see him as the first President in recent years to recognize and act on reversing the De-Industrialization of America. The graphic below shows…
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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 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…
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Hawaii: A Gimpse Into the future of the “green new deal”
Hawaii is a model of the impact of applying carbon free electricity generation policies before storage technology catches up. “Green Policies” do not necessarily result in “Green Power” as I will close with the actual power generation in real time. As an engineer specializing in efficient and clean coal power generation for five decades, whenever a…
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Energy and Economic Prosperity, my thoughts: Dick Storm
REAL ESTATE PRACTICES COMMITTEE Delaware County Bar Association July 15, 2016 Energy for America Sunshine, Wind, Nuclear and Fossil Fuels How Energy Policies and Federal Regulations are Impacting Economic Prosperity By Richard F. (Dick) Storm, PE, CEM Introduction The name of the seminar series suggests that you might be interested in the inter-relationship of energy,…
Power for the U.S.A. 