Locator: 44902ELEC.
Population of Massachusetts: seven million.
2011 - 2020: nine years
Cost: $6 billion more
= $6 billion / 9 years / 7 million = $95.20. Or 30 cents / day.
I may or may not like "compliance costs" -- I don't have a dog in this fight -- I don't even care -- but at least I now know what it's costing.
Amazing how fast 30 cents / day adds up.
A tall (regular) Starbucks black coffee: $2.75 / cup.
Locator: 44900WEBER.
Locator: 44900RECIPES.
Later, 10:13 p.m. CDT: somehow, grilling became a thing today on the blog. I don't know how or why. But here we go. A reader sent me this, following a sidebar e-mail discussion about Texas brisket. Enjoy. Comments refer to the video at the link.
The recipe at the video:
Weber brisket:
The video is great... the video is here.
I always cook mine fat side up. I think it self-bastes the meat, so I don't use the water pan.
I have never measured the salt and pepper, so I found that very interesting. I tell people to use twice as much salt and 4 times more pepper than they've ever used. I use plain old table salt, not the chunkier kosher.
The Rudy's chain does a very good moist brisket (don't order the lean), Pappas' is better. The stuff in Navasota, TX, at Mallett Brothers was even better than that.
Save all the fat you trim off and then freeze it. Dice it and render it slowly for the best, most flavorful fat. I use it to brown a chuck roast before I throw it in a Crock Pot. Use the rendered fat to saute vegetables for gumbo, use the rendered fat to make red chile for enchiladas, etc. etc. It gives the most unctuous flavor to anything.
Earlier today, from a reader, on the Weber:
Original Post: May 19, 2023
Locator: 44687G.
Locator: 44899OVV.
The Ovintiv Rolfsrud wells are tracked here.
From NDIC hearing docket, June, 2022. This is a case, not a permit.
Wells of interest:
Locator: 44898OVV.
This is a case, not a permit, from NDIC hearing dockets, December, 2022:
What this area looks like today:
Where the Westberg oil field is:
Wells of interest:
Locator: 44897TEMP.
Later: 8:35 p.m. CDT -- we had no rain, no storms. In the pool all day.
Original Post
Last evening our weatherman for the DFW area -- of whom we are all getting tired -- has a habit of hyping the story.
Last evening, he breathlessly forecast another severe Texas two-step thunderstorm with hail larger than golf balls.
The first storm was to be rather mild compared to the second storm that would follow.
He forecast the first storm to hit at 11:00 a.m. and end at 1:00 p.m.
The much worse second storm would roll through our area starting at 2:00 p.m. and last well past 4:00 p.m.
Because I'm on my bike, I'm following the weather / radar closely.
At 8:00 a.m this morning when I started out, it did look like some rain at 11:00 and I had planned to be home by 10:30 a.m.
I just checked the weather / radar: that first storm system has disappeared. Absolutely nothing on radar forecast for our area through 4:00 p.m. Clear as a bell.
After 4:00 p.m.: a chance of rain.
LOL.
But we know that the average global temperature in one hundred years will be two degrees higher than it is now, thanks to climate forecasters like John Kerry.
Locator: 44896CHIPS.
Best place to start.
Locator: 44895B.
Locator: 44895LEGO.
Updates
June 15, 2023:
A reader asked me about this note in the original post:
Two stories side-by-side:
My not-ready-for-prime-time reply:
The point of the blog: data processing centers (DPCs) the next big thing worldwide and certainly in the US (Nvidia makes chips for DPCs -- this was the huge announcement by the CEO after earnings came out -- basically when he said - "you haven't seen nothin' yet") -->
Those PDCs use a huge amount of electricity. A huge amount.
And they generate lots of heat. Optimally, they need to be sited where it's cold.
Why else does a huge company site a huge DPC in Ellendale, ND, population, 1,000?
This one site will use 27 or 28% of all the electricity MDU generates. I could/couldn't care less about MDU.
What I'm trying to point is a macroeconomic data point: tech companies in the DPC sector are going to site their plants where electricity is cheap and endlessly available and where it's cold (ambient outside temperature).
And the cherry on top: site these plants where there is a friendly business climate.
ND has one of the best business climates. ND will approve anything that generates revenue.
DPCs don't cross state lines like pipelines -- the permitting is only a state issue, not a public issue.
DPCs, after built, need one individual to run them. The guy that opens and closes the front door when engineers show up to update something.
Even the meter reader won't trek out to the site: that information will be sent electronically to MDU.
So, my post was not an MDU story; it was not necessarily a North Dakota story. It was a story that ZeroHedge highlighted -- but they were looking at it through their "environmental sustainment glasses / lenses." They need to look at these stories through their energy glasses / lenses and where energy will be endlessless available and cheap. This won't be in Europe and it won't be in Asia.
I look for DPCs across the entire northern tier -- Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota.
MDU, OTTR, BKH -- will benefit, but not much in the big scheme of things. MDU, OTTR, BKH won't have the MOJO, YOLO, FOMO that Nvidia, for example, has and we're in a momentum-driven (MOJO) market right now.
Having said that, I could see a large Florida utility or. a North Carolina utility buying a utility in ND, SD, MN.
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101 Days Of Summer
Day 14.
Windy and breezy. On a scale of 1 - 10, a six (6).
In a couple of hours it will deteriorate to a two (2) and by the afternoon, it biking weather, on a scale of 1 - 10, will be a one (1).
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US Economy
Big stories this past week:
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The Next Big Thing: Electricity
Two stories side-by-side:
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Word Of The Day
Generative AI.
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EVs And Chips
Today's focus: EVs and Chips.
Chips, semiconductor: link here.
The autos: link here. Scorecard, EVs.
Not sure where to start. It's overwhelming what has happened this past week. I'm going to take a break now and come back to this later.
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The Lego Page
Available August 1, 2023.
A little pricey. Based on number of pieces should sell for $149.99.
Priced at $199.99.
