Risk-Based Data Management System -- North Dakota -- Second State To Implement -- January 21, 2019

It's getting pretty cold when New England is burning more oil than coal, and electricity is surging to $150/MWh. Link here. At 8%, oil is now accounting for almost as much electricity as renewable energy (9%). Winter Storm Harper coming to an end; 4:31 p.m. January 21, 2019. In the big scheme of things it appears Harper was hyped based on media coverage (or should we say lack of media coverage) on Martin Luther King's day. Later: on ABC Nightly News earlier this evening, the on-scene reporter was interviewing people on the street in NYC where "they" said it was freezing. The woman said she had never been so cold. She had a winter coat and scarf on, but no gloves. Are you kidding? Coldest she has ever seen ... and ... and gloves, no mittens. And her hands looked perfectly fine; not red, nothing to suggest she was "freezing." Also, interestingly enough, one saw no "breath" (i.e., water vapor) from any of the people interviewing or being interviewed). It did not look all that cold, at least to someone who grew up in North Dakota. The background showed no significant snow drifts and the traffic was moving fine.

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Now, Back To The Bakken

To come back to these later: risk-based data management system. 

• RBDMS.
• North Dakota: second state to install RBDMS, October, 2018.
• One year earlier, National Driller, October, 2017. 

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What We Will Be Talking About In February

Thinking out loud:

• does it make sense that the US Coast Guard is being paid, but not TSA?
• is "the Wall" issue really a "right-sizing Federal government" issue?

"The Wall":

• Trump talks about a physical wall
• failure to negotiate has resulted in a more impenetrable "real" wall for all immigrants