- Riyadh urges caution; Moscow appears to favor supply hike;
- Saudis' extra one-million bble cutback gives kingdom leverage;
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Perseverance
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Husbandly Advice
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Saudis, Russia Differ Again -- February 21, 2021
Greenhouse Proposed Near Jamestown, ND -- -- From Geoff Simon's Top ND Energy Stories -- February 21, 2021
Greenhouse proposed near Jamestown, ND: tomatoes and cucumbers.
The ND Industrial Commission approved a $500,000 renewable energy grant this week for a carbon dioxide-infused greenhouse project to be built adjacent to Great River Energy's Spiritwood Station east of Jamestown.
The project would pump waste heat from the 99-megawatt Spiritwood Station and carbon dioxide from the Dakota Spirit ethanol plant to a greenhouse that would produce tomatoes and cucumbers. The Spiritwood plant initially burned beneficiated coal from Coal Creek Station, but GRE announced last year that it was converting the power plant to natural gas.
Glass Investment is the project developer and operator of Houweling’s Tomatoes, a world-renowned commercial greenhouse tomato grower with facilities in California, Utah and British Columbia. Click here to view the project application submitted to the state Renewable Energy Council, and here to view the project slide presentation.
Jonathan Russo, Value-added Energy Business Development Manager with the ND Department of Commerce, said the research grant would cover work associated with developing the CO2 capture and transportation system.
Green New Deal Is Unachievable -- From Geoff Simon's Top ND Energy Stories -- February 21, 2021
From Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:
An energy sector analyst says ideas such as the Green New Deal that promote the notion that the wind and sun could provide 100% of America’s energy needs, "is simply not possible, any more than it’s possible to use airplanes to fly to the moon."
Mark Mills, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change last week that the cost of complete grid restructuring would be far greater than popularly acknowledged.
"The Administration has proposed spending $2 trillion on climate programs across seven domains," Mills said, "But for the electric grid alone, analyses show we’d need at least $5 to $6 trillion in wind/solar and battery systems to replace existing hydrocarbon generation."Mills said doing so by 2035 would require a continuous construction program at least 600% bigger than any single peak year for utility construction that has occurred in the U.S., China or Germany over the past half-century. He said it would also require an enormous expansion of the grid if a significant share of cars shift from oil to electricity.
Mills said grid restructuring and using more electric cars means exporting jobs and offshoring environmental consequences.
"Some 90% of solar panels are imported, as are 80% of the key components for wind turbines," Mills said. "Asian companies dominate global battery production and account for 80% of all planned factories, and even if we expand domestic manufacturing, our import dependencies remain for critical energy minerals."
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Week 7: February 14, 2021 -- February 20, 2021
Top story of the week:
- Texas freeze; here; the initial blast; hope springs eternal; forecast; do you think things might have been different had we put as much effort into preparing for severe cold as we did preparing for global warming? Asking for a friend.
- Rush Limbaugh dead at 70 years of age; February 17, 2021.
- President Trump acquitted for the second time; most acquitted president in history;
Top international non-energy story:
Top international energy story:
Top national non-energy story:
Top national energy story:
- WTI goes over $61;
- Buffett initiates $4 billion position in Chevron;
- CLR makes significant acquisition in the Powder River Basin;
Top North Dakota non-energy story:
- Cold;
Top North Dakota energy story:
Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:
- Quick links archived;
- Greenhouse proposed near Jamestown, ND;
- Green New Deal simply unachievable;
- Rolling blackouts hit North Dakota;
- Drilling stagnate despite $60-crude; Biden anti-oil policy chilling investment;
- 80-mph speed limit bill defeated again;
- US Army Corps attorneys withdraw from DAPL case; link here;
- Natural gas plants and higher oil prices could spur drilling south of Tioga;
- 59°F below zero recorded at Lake Metigoshe, verification underway; links easily found; here's one;
Operators:
Operations:
Fracking:
Pipeline:
CBR:
Bakken economy:
Bakken 101:
Miscellaneous:
Notes From All Over -- The Late Saturday Afternoon Edition -- February 20, 2021
NASCAR at 4:00 p.m. CT.
Got lamb? From a reader, we may not have milk, eggs, or bread at our local grocer, but we do have lamb!! Recovers from the Texas Deep Freeze and first thing he does -- gets out the Weber.
How awesome is that? LOL.
Lamb and beverage of one's choice. What a great country.
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Twin Peaks: Full Album
Twin Peaks, the television series, premiered April 8, 1990, and was canceled after its second season in 1991. In 1990 - 1991, we were stationed in Bitburg AB, Germany, but something about the series takes me back to a wonderful woman and wonderful memories in Yorkshire, England some fourteen years later.
In Yorkshire, England, I remember running, literally running down the hill to the local grocer on Sunday mornings to pick up the Sunday edition of two London newspapers (The Guardian and The Express (?), some bread, some English bacon, and eggs. And then running back "home" to fix breakfast.
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Preparing The World's Largest Ice Skating Rink
Flathead Lake, February 20, 2021:
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