Bakken
IE Questions: What Is The Real Impact of Low Oil Prices On Hiring?
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What do unemployment and labor statistics tell us about the impact of low oil prices on the job market in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield?
Colorado
IE Questions: How Long Is Your Blackout?
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Reliable electric power is a given. Except when it’s not. How often does your power go out, and for how long? New data lets us answer that question.
Making Energy
IE Questions: What Are “Unproved” Reserves And Why Should You Care?
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The vast majority of natural gas left in the ground is “unproved.” How have unproved reserves, the big question mark in the ground, changed over time?
Making Energy
IE Questions: What Are Oil And Gas Reserves And Why Do They Matter?
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If natural gas production is spiking, how can reserves be going up, too? This primer on reserves sorts it out.
COGCC
IE Questions: Private Versus Public Oil And Gas
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In this week’s IE Question, we look at companies producing oil and gas in Colorado and figure out who is public, and who is private.
Using Energy
IE Questions: How Many Pieces of Candy Corn Would It Take To Charge Your Cell Phone?
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How many pieces of candy corn would it take to charge a cell phone for a day’s use? The answer to this question can help us put our everyday energy use into perspective.
Making Energy
IE Questions: How Does A Solar Eclipse Affect Solar Power?
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Along comes an 81 quintillion ton chunk of basalt rock with the gall to – quite literally – cast a shadow on solar panels.
Making Energy
IE Questions: Where Is The Bottom Of The (Oil) Barrel Price Fall?
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Oil production hinges on one big assumption: Companies extracting oil can make money. When does that stop being true?
Back to the Future
IE Questions: “What The Hell Is A Jigawatt?”
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Did Doc Brown make a rookie pronunciation mistake? Or, is he right and the rest of the world wrong?
