California
IE Questions: Why Is California Trying To Behead The Duck?
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Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
conditioning
IE Questions: What’s Oil Stabilization and Conditioning?
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North Dakota could require oil companies to make oil less flammable through oil conditioning and stabilization.
Inside Energy News
IE Questions: What’s Watts Bar 2?
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Watts Bar actually is what it sounds like: a watering hole for light bulbs. It’s a nuclear reactor. And not just any nuclear reactor. When it begins operating next year, it’ll be the first new commercial reactor in the U.S. in nearly 20 years.
Homepage Top Story
IE Questions: What’s A Wet Play?
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When oil companies talk about a “wet play” or a “dry play”, what do they mean?
Homepage Featured
IE Questions: Load Shedding And Keeping Your Lights On
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Load shedding is a term many Americans may not even be able to define. But, it’s a part of everyday life in the developing world.
Inside Energy News
IE Questions: Fossil Fuel Primer
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“Fossil fuel” is not exactly an obscure term. Most people have the basic understanding that fossil fuels–coal, oil and natural gas–were formed from the buried remains of ancient plants and animals, submerged under heat and pressure for hundreds of millions of years. But, just because they’re formed by the same process, doesn’t mean they are all one and the same.
Inside Energy News
IE Questions: What Was That Canary Doing In The Coal Mine?
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The phrase ‘canary in a coal mine’ has been tossed around by politicians, environmentalists, and financial professionals for years. But why was that canary down in a coal mine to begin with??
Crude Oil
IE Questions: Whatever Happened To Peak Oil? (Part 2)
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Yesterday, we learned how a guy named M. King Hubbert introduced the concept of peak oil in 1956, a concept that peaked in the public psyche somewhere around August 2005. Today, we’re returning to the question, “Whatever happened to peak oil?” – which is the moment oil production reaches a global maximum. Did peak oil already happen? Maybe.
Inside Energy News
IE Questions: What Is Peak Oil? (Part 1)
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Remember 2005? In the middle of a Bush presidency, Terri Schiavo and her feeding tube captured national attention, Lance Armstrong was still winning Tour de France titles, and Arianna Huffington launched a new website. Perhaps it was the shock of Hurricane Katrina, or the post-Y2K lull, but we needed of a new apocalyptic obsession and we found one in peak oil. Public interest in peak oil – as judged by Google searches, at least – peaked in August 2005 and coincided with Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, we were experiencing peak “peak oil.”
