Natural Gas Glut

With natural gas prices dropping like a rock in recent months, it will be interesting to catch it on the rebound. A cold winter could have an interesting effect on the severely depressed prices due to recession and unusually mild summer.

I'll be watching this, could get interesting.

Peak Loads

Hot summer days means peak loads, and peak loads means I've been getting questions about load duration curves.

I posted a little "How To" on Load Duration Curves on eHow. You can check it out here.

60 Minutes (again), Carbon Sequestration & Algae

60 Minutes tonight featured Duke's Jim Rogers (see my 7/4/08 post), and carbon sequestration:

I believe underground carbon sequestration is and probably always will be too expensive.

I'm more excited about the prospects for biological methods of sequestration. We can grow CO2 hungry algae that doubles as an energy-rich biofuel. A little like Soylent Green, but friendlier.