U.S. Energy Production Continues to Exceed Consumption, A
Milestone First Hit in 2019: Growth of Domestic Oil and Natural Gas Production
Due to Fracking Allows Coal Use to Drop. January 3, 2024. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Energy Production Continues to
Exceed Consumption, A Milestone First Hit in 2019: Growth of Domestic Oil and
Natural Gas Production Due to Fracking Allows Coal Use to Drop
U.S. Crude Oil Imports from Canada at Record Highs from
Expansion of Trans Mountain Pipeline and U.S. Oil Trade Graphs. January 4, 2025.
Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Crude Oil Imports from Canada
at Record Highs from Expansion of Trans Mountain Pipeline and U.S. Oil Trade
Graphs
Utica Condensate/Light Oil Production Grows in Ohio as
the Volatile Oil Window is Drilled in New Ways and Stimulated with New Frac
Recipes: Economics Can Be as Good as the Best Permian Wells. January 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Utica Condensate/Light Oil
Production Grows in Ohio as the Volatile Oil Window is Drilled in New Ways and
Stimulated with New Frac Recipes: Economics Can Be as Good as the Best Permian
Wells
An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy: Summary
and Review of Chapter 4 of Environmental Law, 5th Edition by Nancy K. Kubasek
and Gary S. Silverman (Prentice Hall, 2005, pgs. 125-165). January 8. 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: An Introduction to Environmental
Law and Policy: Summary and Review of Chapter 4 of Environmental Law, 5th
Edition by Nancy K. Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman (Prentice Hall, 2005, pgs.
125-165)
Integrating AI into the Power Grid: Challenges and
Opportunities. Janaury 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Integrating AI into the Power Grid:
Challenges and Opportunities
The Value of Oil in South Sudan, a Fledgling Country
Trying to Recover from Conflict. January 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Value of Oil in South Sudan, a
Fledgling Country Trying to Recover from Conflict
Earth’s Carbonate-Silicate Cycle: Will the Brightening
Sun Disrupt It Enough Over the Next Billion Years to Destroy Life on Earth?
Maybe or Maybe it Will Take Longer. January 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Earth’s Carbonate-Silicate Cycle:
Will the Brightening Sun Disrupt It Enough Over the Next Billion Years to
Destroy Life on Earth? Maybe or Maybe it Will Take Longer
EPA Air Quality: National Summary for 2023: Analysis. January
13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: EPA Air Quality: National Summary
for 2023: Analysis
Exposure Science: What Toxicants Are We Consuming, Are
They Dangerous, and How Do We Cope? January 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Exposure Science: What Toxicants
Are We Consuming, Are They Dangerous, and How Do We Cope?
Iraq Flared Natural Gas Capture: TotalEnergies and BP in
Deals to Capture Flared Gas for Domestic Power Use. January 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Iraq Flared Natural Gas Capture:
TotalEnergies and BP in Deals to Capture Flared Gas for Domestic Power Use
Trinity Gas Storage Facility Comes Online in East Texas,
Hedging Against Another Winter Storm Uri. January 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trinity Gas Storage Facility Comes
Online in East Texas, Hedging Against Another Winter Storm Uri
Underground Storage Tanks: Types, Regulations, Release
Detection, Corrosion Protection, and Operation & Maintenance. January 20,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Underground Storage Tanks: Types,
Regulations, Release Detection, Corrosion Protection, and Operation &
Maintenance
Plants are a Better CO2 Sink Than Previously Understood,
New Research Finds. January 21, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Plants are a Better CO2 Sink Than
Previously Understood, New Research Finds
A Revised Ocean-Atmosphere Sulfur Cycle Model:
Methanethiol (MeSH), a Biogenic Sulfur Gas from Marine Organisms, Helps Cool
the Climate, New Research Finds. January 21, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Revised Ocean-Atmosphere Sulfur
Cycle Model: Methanethiol (MeSH), a Biogenic Sulfur Gas from Marine Organisms,
Helps Cool the Climate, New Research Finds
Carbon Source/Sink Balance from the Arctic-Boreal Zone:
Sources Continue to Increase Relative to Sinks: Carbon Cycle Changes in the
Arctic Permafrost Region Led by Accelerated Arctic Warming. January 22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Carbon Source/Sink Balance from the
Arctic-Boreal Zone: Sources Continue to Increase Relative to Sinks: Carbon
Cycle Changes in the Arctic Permafrost Region Led by Accelerated Arctic Warming
Cryptobiotic Soil, or Biocrust: Distribution in
Arid/Semi-Arid Regions, Classification, Ecological Importance, and Restoration.
January 22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Cryptobiotic Soil, or Biocrust:
Distribution in Arid/Semi-Arid Regions, Classification, Ecological Importance,
and Restoration
Radon Gas: Dangers, Exposure, Geochemistry, Mitigation
Methods, and a New Map of Geographic Concentrations. January 23, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Radon Gas: Dangers, Exposure,
Geochemistry, Mitigation Methods, and a New Map of Geographic Concentrations
Heavy Duty Electrification: Benefits, Risks, Strategies,
Logistics, and Forecasts. January 25, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0
Big Grid-Scale Battery System Trends: New Data and
Analysis from Bloomberg. January 25, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Big Grid-Scale Battery System
Trends: New Data and Analysis from Bloomberg
On-Site Landfill Leachate Treatment Plants for Common
Landfill Contaminants, PFAS, and Other Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs).
January 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: On-Site Landfill Leachate Treatment
Plants for Common Landfill Contaminants, PFAS, and Other Contaminants of
Emerging Concern (CECs)
Ukraine Offers to Upgrade Coal Units That Currently Run
on Anthracite Coal in Moldova Breakaway Region Transnistria to Accept Ukrainian
Coal: Ukraine Offers a Deal. January 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ukraine Offers to Upgrade Coal
Units That Currently Run on Anthracite Coal in Moldova Breakaway Region
Transnistria to Accept Ukrainian Coal: Ukraine Offers a Deal
Income Disparity in the U.S: A Simple Analysis. January
29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Income Disparity in the U.S: A
Simple Analysis
Air Pollution from Landfills, Anaerobic Digesters, and
Other Biogas Plants: Biogas Impurities and Processing Improvements. January 29,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Air Pollution from Landfills,
Anaerobic Digesters, and Other Biogas Plants: Biogas Impurities and Processing
Improvements
Ammonia Air Pollution from Agriculture: Volatilization
from Manure Lagoons and Fertilizer. January 29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ammonia Air Pollution from
Agriculture: Volatilization from Manure Lagoons and Fertilizer
PJM Interconnection Experiences Highest Electricity
Demand Ever: Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Provide 92.9% of the Power Needed. January
30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: PJM Interconnection Experiences
Highest Electricity Demand Ever: Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Provide 92.9% of the
Power Needed
Last Week Was the Fourth-Largest U.S. Natural Gas Storage
Withdrawal on Record. January 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Last Week Was the Fourth-Largest
U.S. Natural Gas Storage Withdrawal on Record
Regulation,
Deregulation, Regulatory Reform and Regulatory Overreach: Cost Considerations
vs. Level-of-Protection Considerations. February 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Regulation, Deregulation,
Regulatory Reform and Regulatory Overreach: Cost Considerations vs.
Level-of-Protection Considerations
Nobody Wins with a Headbutt: Tariffs, Protectionism, the
Benefits of Free Trade, and When Tariffs are Warranted. February 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Nobody Wins with a Headbutt:
Tariffs, Protectionism, the Benefits of Free Trade, and When Tariffs are
Warranted
U.S. Coal Production, Consumption, and Exports Update.
February 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Coal Production, Consumption,
and Exports Update
Scope 3 Emissions: If the U.K. is Concerned About Them,
Then More, Not Less, Local Natural Gas Supply Would Help: It’s Another Case of
‘Emissions-Reduction Backfire’. February 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Scope 3 Emissions: If the U.K. is
Concerned About Them, Then More, Not Less, Local Natural Gas Supply Would Help:
It’s Another Case of ‘Emissions-Reduction Backfire’
Machine Learning Identifies Best Polymers for Improving
Performance of Film Capacitors. February 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Machine Learning Identifies Best
Polymers for Improving Performance of Film Capacitors
Boosting Thermal Conductivity with Nanofluids as New
Working Fluids, and Turbulators: New Research. February 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Boosting Thermal Conductivity with
Nanofluids as New Working Fluids, and Turbulators: New Research
Working Remotely, Hybrid, or Fully On-Site: Pros, Cons,
Trends, and Comparisons. February 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Working Remotely, Hybrid, or Fully
On-Site: Pros, Cons, Trends, and Comparisons
Finding Deep Groundwater in East Africa with Oil Company
Seismic and Drilling Data: Norwegian Company Ruden AS Discovery. February 15,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Finding Deep Groundwater in East
Africa with Oil Company Seismic and Drilling Data: Norwegian Company Ruden AS
Discovery
Enhanced Rock Weathering in Agriculture: Crushed Basalt
and Wollastonite for CO2 Removal, Soil N2O Emissions Reduction, Improved
Phosphorus Availability, Acidity Regulation, and Improved Air Quality:
Durability of Sequestration, Costs, Credits, Measurement, Verification &
Reporting, and Scaling Challenges. February 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Enhanced Rock Weathering in
Agriculture: Crushed Basalt and Wollastonite for CO2 Removal, Soil N2O
Emissions Reduction, Improved Phosphorus Availability, Acidity Regulation, and
Improved Air Quality: Durability of Sequestration, Costs, Credits, Measurement,
Verification & Reporting, and Scaling Challenges
‘Drill, Baby Drill?’ Lately, it Looks More Like
‘Downsize, Baby Downsize’. February 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: ‘Drill, Baby Drill?’ Lately, it
Looks More Like ‘Downsize, Baby Downsize’
The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything: Book
Review & Summary. Adrian Bejan (St. Martin’s Press, 2016). February 16,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Physics of Life: The Evolution
of Everything: Book Review & Summary. Adrian Bejan (St. Martin’s Press,
2016)
American Pragmatism: A Philosophy, Or Rather a Method,
Rooted in Practicality and the Real World. February 17, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: American Pragmatism: A Philosophy,
Or Rather a Method, Rooted in Practicality and the Real World
H2Ohio: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Ohio’s
Water Quality and Wastewater Quality. February 18, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: H2Ohio: A Collaborative Approach to
Improving Ohio’s Water Quality and Wastewater Quality
De-Risking and Scaling Up New Energy Technology: Lawrence
Livermore Lab Scientists Tackle Challenges. February 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: De-Risking and Scaling Up New
Energy Technology: Lawrence Livermore Lab Scientists Tackle Challenges
Global Greening: Boreal, Temperate and Tropical
Vegetation Reaches Record in 2020. February 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Global Greening: Boreal, Temperate
and Tropical Vegetation Reaches Record in 2020
The Importance of Environmental Protection and Expertise:
Science and Policy Should Be Integrated but Separate. February 20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Importance of Environmental
Protection and Expertise: Science and Policy Should Be Integrated but Separate
New York and New England Need More Natural Gas Pipeline
Capacity. February 20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New York and New England Need More
Natural Gas Pipeline Capacity
Seaweed Farming for Carbon Storage: As Viable as Other
Blue Carbon Habitat Reconstruction Methods According to New Research. February
22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Seaweed Farming for Carbon Storage:
As Viable as Other Blue Carbon Habitat Reconstruction Methods According to New
Research
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is Wrong to Call Net Zero
Goals ‘Sinister’. February 23, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Energy Secretary Chris Wright is
Wrong to Call Net Zero Goals ‘Sinister’
The Choices We Face: Energy for the 21st Century: A
Declaration of Guiding Principles by Mark Mills and Scott Tinker. Summary and
Review. February 23, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Choices We Face: Energy for the
21st Century: A Declaration of Guiding Principles by Mark Mills and Scott
Tinker. Summary and Review
Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Treatment: Standards
and Contaminants, Including Emerging Contaminants, Trends, and Compliance.
February 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Municipal and Industrial Wastewater
Treatment: Standards and Contaminants, Including Emerging Contaminants, Trends,
and Compliance
Coal-Fired Plant Retirements Have Slowed in Recent Years
and Energy Sec Wright Says They Should Be Delayed to Retain Reliability: EIA
and Other Forecasts. February 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Coal-Fired Plant Retirements Have
Slowed in Recent Years and Energy Sec Wright Says They Should Be Delayed to
Retain Reliability: EIA and Other Forecasts
Update on Russia’s Sanctioned Oil Tankers: Bloomberg
Tracks Shipments, Including Clandestine Transfers. February 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Update on Russia’s Sanctioned Oil
Tankers: Bloomberg Tracks Shipments, Including Clandestine Transfers
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. David R. Montgomery.
University of California Press, 2012. Book Review and Summary. March 3, 2025.
Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations.
David R. Montgomery. University of California Press, 2012. Book Review and
Summary
Compliance with EPA’s 40 CFR 60 Subpart 0000(b) Rules for
Methane and VOC Emissions from Oil & Gas Facilities, Including Compression
Facilities. March 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Compliance with EPA’s 40 CFR 60
Subpart 0000(b) Rules for Methane and VOC Emissions from Oil & Gas
Facilities, Including Compression Facilities
Uinta Basin in Northeast Utah: An Emerging U.S. Oil Play
with Stacked Payzones and Very Good Results. March 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Uinta Basin in Northeast Utah: An
Emerging U.S. Oil Play with Stacked Payzones and Very Good Results
U.S. Butane Exports Reach Record Level in 2024: Eagle
Ford, Marcellus, and Utica Shales are Main Sources. March 8, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Butane Exports Reach Record
Level in 2024: Eagle Ford, Marcellus, and Utica Shales are Main Sources
Gas-Fired Turbines: Importance for Power Generation and
Industry, Minimizing Pollutants, and Turbine Manufacturing Issues. March 8,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Gas-Fired Turbines: Importance for
Power Generation and Industry, Minimizing Pollutants, and Turbine Manufacturing
Issues
Energy Futures Initiative (EFI Foundation) 2024 Annual
Report: Review and Summary. March 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Energy Futures Initiative (EFI
Foundation) 2024 Annual Report: Review and Summary
New Bioprocessing Method Yields Additional Valuable
Byproducts Along with Biofuels. March 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Bioprocessing Method Yields
Additional Valuable Byproducts Along with Biofuels
New Flare Burner Design Increases Combustion Efficiency
and Methane Destruction Efficiency and Will Reduce Effects of Crosswinds:
Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Additive Manufacturing Used
to Develop It. March 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Flare Burner Design Increases
Combustion Efficiency and Methane Destruction Efficiency and Will Reduce
Effects of Crosswinds: Machine Learning, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and
Additive Manufacturing Used to Develop It
Addressing the Transformer Shortage Amid Rising Power
Demand and New Transformer Designs and Materials. March 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Addressing the Transformer Shortage
Amid Rising Power Demand and New Transformer Designs and Materials
Induced Seismicity Management in Argentina’s Neuquen
Basin: The Need for a Traffic Light System. March 13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Induced Seismicity Management in
Argentina’s Neuquen Basin: The Need for a Traffic Light System
Deregulation and
EPA’s List of Rollbacks: Less Oversight from the Feds but Voluntary
Common-Sense Compliance and State Compliance Will Remain. March 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Deregulation and EPA’s List of
Rollbacks: Less Oversight from the Feds but Voluntary Common-Sense Compliance
and State Compliance Will Remain
Excerpt from Sensible Decarbonization: Chapter 7. US
Environmental Law and Policy: A Brief Overview and Current Events. March 15,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Excerpt from Sensible
Decarbonization: Chapter 7. US Environmental Law and Policy: A Brief Overview
and Current Events
Research Spurs and Aids Innovation and Governments Are
Vital: We Need More Science & Technology, Not Less. March 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Research Spurs and Aids Innovation
and Governments Are Vital: We Need More Science & Technology, Not Less
Cheap Russian Pipelined Gas: Don’t Fall for It, Says
Ukrainian Energy CEO. March 17, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Cheap Russian Pipelined Gas: Don’t
Fall for It, Says Ukrainian Energy CEO
Politicized Science vs. Pseudoscience: Which Erodes
Public Trust More? March 19. 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Politicized Science vs.
Pseudoscience: Which Erodes Public Trust More?
A Review of New Studies on Carbon Sequestration by AAPG
Core Elements Editor Emphasizes Work Toward Developing Best Practices. March
20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Review of New Studies on Carbon
Sequestration by AAPG Core Elements Editor Emphasizes Work Toward Developing
Best Practices
Wastewater Disposal Well Woes in the Permian Basin:
Seismicity, Shut-Downs, Surface Leaks and Blowouts, Wastewater Migration and
Pressurization, and Sinkholes. March 21, 2005. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Wastewater Disposal Well Woes in
the Permian Basin: Seismicity, Shut-Downs, Surface Leaks and Blowouts,
Wastewater Migration and Pressurization, and Sinkholes
Bismuth: China Uses Minerals Processing Leverage to
Counter Trump Tariffs and Bismuth Prices Rise by More Than Five Times. March
22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Bismuth: China Uses Minerals
Processing Leverage to Counter Trump Tariffs and Bismuth Prices Rise by More
Than Five Times
Libertarian Paternalism (Nudging) and Dark Patterns:
Deceptive and Manipulative Business Practices. March 23, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Libertarian Paternalism (Nudging)
and Dark Patterns: Deceptive and Manipulative Business Practices
Factual Completeness: An Important Concept, Especially in
Energy Debates. March 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Factual Completeness: An Important
Concept, Especially in Energy Debates
Rollbacks on CCS Mandates for Power Plants are Warranted
but Rollbacks on Coal Combustion Residuals Are Not a Good Idea. March 24, 2025.
Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Rollbacks on CCS Mandates for Power
Plants are Warranted but Rollbacks on Coal Combustion Residuals Are Not a Good
Idea
Ohio Energy Issues at the Statehouse: Old Coal Plant
Bailouts, Electric Security Plans, Behind-the-Meter Power for Data Centers,
Solar, Tax Cuts, and Refunds. March 25, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ohio Energy Issues at the
Statehouse: Old Coal Plant Bailouts, Electric Security Plans, Behind-the-Meter
Power for Data Centers, Solar, Tax Cuts, and Refunds
Implications of PJM’s Proposed Price Collar for Capacity
Auction Payments. March 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Implications of PJM’s Proposed
Price Collar for Capacity Auction Payments
‘Dispatchable’ Power Credits Trading Program Passed in
Texas Senate. March 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: ‘Dispatchable’ Power Credits
Trading Program Passed in Texas Senate
U.S. National Power Demand Study: Executive Summary.
March 2025. by S&P Global Commodity Insights: Review and Summary. March 26,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. National Power Demand Study:
Executive Summary. March 2025. by S&P Global Commodity Insights: Review and
Summary
Rampant Demand Response Fraud Prompts MISO to Change Its
Demand Response Rules. March 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Rampant Demand Response Fraud
Prompts MISO to Change Its Demand Response Rules
Ice Flow Via Ice Quakes with ‘Stick-Slip’ Motion Along
Layers of Sulfates Deposited by Volcanoes: Upgrading Flow Models to Account for
Temperate Ice. March 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ice Flow Via Ice Quakes with
‘Stick-Slip’ Motion Along Layers of Sulfates Deposited by Volcanoes: Upgrading
Flow Models to Account for Temperate Ice
Presidential Exemption from Compliance with the Clean Air
Act? Apparently, It's Real. March 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Presidential Exemption from
Compliance with the Clean Air Act? Apparently, It's Real
New UK Report on Stranded Asset Liabilities for Fossil
Fuels Likely Off the Mark: Stranded Assets Are a Concern in All Technologies. March
20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New UK Report on Stranded Asset
Liabilities for Fossil Fuels Likely Off the Mark: Stranded Assets Are a Concern
in All Technologies
Thermoradiative Diode Technology: Applications, Projects,
and Possibilities of Mid-Infrared Radiative Heat for Power. April 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Thermoradiative Diode Technology:
Applications, Projects, and Possibilities of Mid-Infrared Radiative Heat for
Power
U.S. Government Declares Tax War on Rest of World: Fair
Trade vs. Chaotic Economic Nationalism. April 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Government Declares Tax War on
Rest of World: Fair Trade vs. Chaotic Economic Nationalism
Corporate Conservation Projects and Environmental
Benefits Trading: Credits, Budgets, Planning, Challenges, and New Opportunities.
April 3, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Corporate Conservation Projects and
Environmental Benefits Trading: Credits, Budgets, Planning, Challenges, and New
Opportunities
Greenhouse Gas Releases from Exposed Groundwater
Discharged During Low Stream Flow Conditions: New Research Quantifies Releases.
April 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Greenhouse Gas Releases from
Exposed Groundwater Discharged During Low Stream Flow Conditions: New Research
Quantifies Releases
Contamination from Waste-to-Energy Facilities
(Incinerators): New Studies in Europe Show High Dioxin, PFAS, and Heavy Metals
Levels in Soil, Water, Vegetation, and Food. April 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Contamination from Waste-to-Energy
Facilities (Incinerators): New Studies in Europe Show High Dioxin, PFAS, and
Heavy Metals Levels in Soil, Water, Vegetation, and Food
Lithospheric Dripping Under the North American Craton
Discovered with Seismic Full-Waveform Tomography. April 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Lithospheric Dripping Under the
North American Craton Discovered with Seismic Full-Waveform Tomography
The Genetic Literacy Project: A Useful and Functional
Information Source for Unbiased Science and Issues in Agricultural and Human
Genetics and Health. April 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Genetic Literacy Project: A
Useful and Functional Information Source for U. April 8, 2025nbiased Science
and Issues in Agricultural and Human Genetics and Health
Ground Level Ozone: Contributors to Western U.S. Ozone
Pollution Include Fossil Fuel Combustion Pollutants (Mostly from Asia) But also
International Shipping, Trees, Cooking Emissions, Volatile Chemical Products,
Wildfires, and Fertilizers. April 8, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ground Level Ozone: Contributors to
Western U.S. Ozone Pollution Include Fossil Fuel Combustion Pollutants (Mostly
from Asia) But also International Shipping, Trees, Cooking Emissions, Volatile
Chemical Products, Wildfires, and Fertilizers
wo New Solar Innovations: PV Glass/Transparent Solar
Achieves Record 12.3% Efficiency and Bio-Based UV Protection Film w/ Red Onion
Extract Blocks 99.9% of UV Radiation. April 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Two New Solar Innovations: PV
Glass/Transparent Solar Achieves Record 12.3% Efficiency and Bio-Based UV
Protection Film w/ Red Onion Extract Blocks 99.9% of UV Radiation
Ethylene Oxide: Uses, Exposure, Toxicity, and Regulation.
April 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ethylene Oxide: Uses, Exposure,
Toxicity, and Regulation
New Pipeline Projects Set to Go Forward with Reformed
Regulatory Environment: Boardwalk’s Borealis Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion
Project Set to Bring More Appalachian Gas to Gulf Coast and Williams’
Constitution Pipeline for Northeast Revived. April 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Pipeline Projects Set to Go
Forward with Reformed Regulatory Environment: Boardwalk’s Borealis Natural Gas
Pipeline Expansion Project Set to Bring More Appalachian Gas to Gulf Coast and
Williams’ Constitution Pipeline for Northeast Revived
Mongolia’s Coal Pollution: A Lingering Health Problem
That Needs Solutions: The Power of Siberia-2 Pipeline and Coal Seam Gas are
Emerging as the Best Solutions. April 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Mongolia’s Coal Pollution: A
Lingering Health Problem That Needs Solutions: The Power of Siberia-2 Pipeline
and Coal Seam Gas are Emerging as the Best Solutions
Making Coal Great Again? More Mines and Less MSHA
Inspectors Is Not a Good Plan. April 11, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Making Coal Great Again? More Mines
and Less MSHA Inspectors Is Not a Good Plan
Industrial Gas Recovery and Utilization: New Lifecycle
Modeling Shows Environmental Benefits but High Costs: Yielding Surfactant and
Fuel via Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. April 11, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Industrial Gas Recovery and
Utilization: New Lifecycle Modeling Shows Environmental Benefits but High
Costs: Yielding Surfactant and Fuel via Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
Multiple Well Hydraulic Fracturing: From Zipper Frac to
Simul-Frac to Chevron’s Triple Frac and Matador’s Trimul-Frac. April 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Multiple Well Hydraulic Fracturing:
From Zipper Frac to Simul-Frac to Chevron’s Triple Frac and Matador’s
Trimul-Frac
Implications of the Massive Defamation Verdict Against
Greenpeace for Its Small Role in Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Activities.
April 13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Implications of the Massive
Defamation Verdict Against Greenpeace for Its Small Role in Dakota Access
Pipeline Protest Activities
Implications of Possible Inflation Reduction Act Repeal.
April 13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Implications of Possible Inflation
Reduction Act Repeal
Natural Gasoline (Pentanes Plus): The Heaviest NGL
Component of Natural Gas Processing: Supply, Demand, Sources, and Uses. April
15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Natural Gasoline (Pentanes Plus):
The Heaviest NGL Component of Natural Gas Processing: Supply, Demand, Sources,
and Uses.
Illegal Mining Around the World: Organized Crime,
Artisanal Mining, Mining Scams, and Markets for Illegally Mined Commodities.
April 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Illegal Mining Around the World:
Organized Crime, Artisanal Mining, Mining Scams, and Markets for Illegally
Mined Commodities
How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match
the Facts. By David Ropeik. Summary & Review. (McGraw-Hill, 2010). April
16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our
Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts. By David Ropeik. Summary & Review.
(McGraw-Hill, 2010).
RFK Jr. and MAHA are Subverting Science and Elevating
Pseudoscience (but they are not the only ones). April 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: RFK Jr. and MAHA are Subverting
Science and Elevating Pseudoscience (but they are not the only ones)
Puerto Rico’s Power Woes: Cheated by the Outdated Jones
Act, Hurricane Maria, Blackouts on an Inadequate Grid, Impossible Renewables
Plans, and Finally, (Some) Access to Lower-Cost US LNG. April 17, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Puerto Rico’s Power Woes: Cheated
by the Outdated Jones Act, Hurricane Maria, Blackouts on an Inadequate Grid,
Impossible Renewables Plans, and Finally, (Some) Access to Lower-Cost US LNG
China Stops Buying U.S. LNG Due to Tariffs, Indicating
They Will Buy More from Russia Instead. April 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: China Stops Buying U.S. LNG Due to
Tariffs, Indicating They Will Buy More from Russia Instead
Lithospheric Foundering Under the Sierra Nevada: New Rare
Evidence? April 20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Lithospheric Foundering Under the
Sierra Nevada: New Rare Evidence?
U.S. Uranium Production is Rising After Falling Off in
2019: One Mill and Seven In-Situ Leaching Plants in Operation. April 21, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Uranium Production is Rising
After Falling Off in 2019: One Mill and Seven In-Situ Leaching Plants in
Operation
Rare Earth Mineral Recycling Harvests Used Batteries and
Decommissioned Hard Drives from Data Centers to Help Offset Tariff-Constrained
Supply from China. April 22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Rare Earth Mineral Recycling
Harvests Used Batteries and Decommissioned Hard Drives from Data Centers to
Help Offset Tariff-Constrained Supply from China
Adopt-a-Highway: Solid Waste Disposal One Piece at a
Time: Useful but Hard Work. April 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Adopt-a-Highway: Solid Waste
Disposal One Piece at a Time: Useful but Hard Work
A Quick Primer on Oil Refining: The Journey from Crude
Oil to Heavy Fuel, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, Gasoline, Naphtha, and Hydrocarbon Gas
Liquids. April 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Quick Primer on Oil Refining: The
Journey from Crude Oil to Heavy Fuel, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, Gasoline, Naphtha,
and Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids
Rapid Temperature Flips May Be an Underestimated Effect
of Climate Change, New Research Suggests. April 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ethylene Oxide: Uses, Exposure,
Toxicity, and Regulation
China’s $24 Billion Coal-to-Oil Project: 2nd Gen Direct
Coal Liquefaction. April 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: China’s $24 Billion Coal-to-Oil
Project: 2nd Gen Direct Coal Liquefaction
China’s New High-Purity Quartz Sand Discovery Can Ease
Dependence on the U.S. Where the Spruce Pine Deposit in North Carolina is the
World’s Largest HPQ Source. April 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: China’s New High-Purity Quartz Sand
Discovery Can Ease Dependence on the U.S. Where the Spruce Pine Deposit in
North Carolina is the World’s Largest HPQ Source
The Risks of Electrification According to Javier Blas: A
Taste of Electricity Realism. April 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Risks of Electrification
According to Javier Blas: A Taste of Electricity Realism
Upcoming Decline in Primary U.S. Oil Output? The Need for
Enhanced Oil Recovery Will Grow. April 29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Upcoming Decline in Primary U.S.
Oil Output? The Need for Enhanced Oil Recovery Will Grow
Trump Administration Seems Overly Concerned About
Discrimination Against White People, Men, and Christians. April 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trump Administration Seems Overly
Concerned About Discrimination Against White People, Men, and Christians
What Caused Spain’s Power Blackout? It is Not Yet Known
but It Appears That Loss of Spinning Reserve/Grid Inertia Was a Major Factor,
May 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: What Caused Spain’s Power Blackout?
It is Not Yet Known but It Appears That Loss of Spinning Reserve/Grid Inertia
Was a Major Factor
Soil Moisture Loss: New Paper Suggests Increasing
Evaporative Demand is Key Driver: Significant Losses Over the Last Few Decades
May Be Permanent Unless the Atmosphere Cools. May 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Soil Moisture Loss: New Paper
Suggests Increasing Evaporative Demand is Key Driver: Significant Losses Over
the Last Few Decades May Be Permanent Unless the Atmosphere Cools
Super-Efficient Air Conditioners Show Phenomenal Results
in Field Trials in India. May 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Super-Efficient Air Conditioners
Show Phenomenal Results in Field Trials in India
American Gas Association Report: Assessing the Value of
Natural Gas Storage, Stresses the Need for New Storage: Summary and Review. May
3, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: American Gas Association Report:
Assessing the Value of Natural Gas Storage, Stresses the Need for New Storage:
Summary and Review
Gas Ratio Analysis and Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: History,
Applications, Limitations, and Trends. May 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Gas Ratio Analysis and Hydrocarbon
Reservoirs: History, Applications, Limitations, and Trends
Heavy Metal Soil Contamination: New Research Suggests 17%
of Global Cropland Has Unsafe Levels. May 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Heavy Metal Soil Contamination: New
Research Suggests 17% of Global Cropland Has Unsafe Levels
Brazil is Funding Russia’s War and Reducing Their Own
Inflation by Buying Massive Amounts of Cheap Russian Diesel, Wheat, and
Fertilizers: Lula’s De Facto Pro-Russian Stance is Aiding Sanctions Evasion.
May 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Brazil is Funding Russia’s War and
Reducing Their Own Inflation by Buying Massive Amounts of Cheap Russian Diesel,
Wheat, and Fertilizers: Lula’s De Facto Pro-Russian Stance is Aiding Sanctions
Evasion
AAPG/GEODE Geothermal Subsurface Characterization:
Geology & Geophysics Workshop. Summary & Review. May 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: AAPG/GEODE Geothermal Subsurface
Characterization: Geology & Geophysics Workshop. Summary & Review
Residential Electricity Costs by U.S. State: Generation
Sources and Availability, Clean Energy Goals, Consumption, and Policies are All
Factors: And CO2 Emissions Per Capita by State. May 8, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Residential Electricity Costs by
U.S. State: Generation Sources and Availability, Clean Energy Goals,
Consumption, and Policies are All Factors: And CO2 Emissions Per Capita by
State
GreenFire Energy Aims to Revitalize the Geysers
Geothermal Power Station with Closed-Loop ORC Systems with Downhole Heat
Exchangers. May 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: GreenFire Energy Aims to Revitalize
the Geysers Geothermal Power Station with Closed-Loop ORC Systems with Downhole
Heat Exchangers
Proppants for Hydraulic Fracturing in Oil & Gas and
Enhanced Geothermal Wells: Frac Sand, Exxon’s New Lightweight Petroleum Coke
Proppants, Ceramic Proppants, and Resin-Coated Proppants. May 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Proppants for Hydraulic Fracturing
in Oil & Gas and Enhanced Geothermal Wells: Frac Sand, Exxon’s New
Lightweight Petroleum Coke Proppants, Ceramic Proppants, and Resin-Coated
Proppants
Trump’s Pause of Offshore Wind Development and Other
Anti-Wind Actions: Is This Warranted? Is It Different from Biden’s LNG Pause?
What About Damage to Whales? May 11, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trump’s Pause of Offshore Wind
Development and Other Anti-Wind Actions: Is This Warranted? Is It Different
from Biden’s LNG Pause? What About Damage to Whales?
Global Warming Benefits? New Approaches to Climate Change
That Prioritize Adaptation and Technology Can Be Better Returns on Investment
Than Catastrophism and Too-Much-Too-Fast High-Cost Mitigation. May 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Global Warming Benefits? New
Approaches to Climate Change That Prioritize Adaptation and Technology Can Be
Better Returns on Investment Than Catastrophism and Too-Much-Too-Fast High-Cost
Mitigation
The Chinese Circular Economy for New-Energy Waste:
Battery and Solar Recycling Systems and Their Optimization. May 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Chinese Circular Economy for
New-Energy Waste: Battery and Solar Recycling Systems and Their Optimization
Frequency Stability Prediction and Enhancement
(FSP&E) Tool for Power Grids Developed by Researchers at Advanced Power and
Energy Center (APEC) at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi: Could Such a Tool Have
Prevented the Iberian Blackout? May 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Frequency Stability Prediction and
Enhancement (FSP&E) Tool for Power Grids Developed by Researchers at
Advanced Power and Energy Center (APEC) at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi: Could
Such a Tool Have Prevented the Iberian Blackout?
Diverting agents in the oil and gas industry: A
comprehensive analysis of their origins, types, and applications: Scientific
Paper Review and Summary. May 13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Diverting agents in the oil and gas
industry: A comprehensive analysis of their origins, types, and applications:
Scientific Paper Review and Summary
Additively Manufactured Two-Phase Heat Exchanger Design
Offers 30% to 50% Performance Improvement, May 14, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Additively Manufactured Two-Phase
Heat Exchanger Design Offers 30% to 50% Performance Improvement
Ohio University’s In-Vessel Composting System is the
Largest Among U.S. Universities. May 14, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ohio University’s In-Vessel
Composting System is the Largest Among U.S. Universities
U.S. Residential Electricity Prices Have Been Rising and
In Many Places Are Expected to Keep Rising: The Cases of Louisiana and Ohio:
and Electricity Expenditures vs. Other Fuel Expenditures. May 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: U.S. Residential Electricity Prices
Have Been Rising and In Many Places Are Expected to Keep Rising: The Cases of
Louisiana and Ohio: and Electricity Expenditures vs. Other Fuel Expenditures
The Meaning of Power System Resilience Continues to
Evolve: It is Often Regional and It Often Requires a Better Definition Since It
Informs Investment Decisions. May 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Meaning of Power System
Resilience Continues to Evolve: It is Often Regional and It Often Requires a
Better Definition Since It Informs Investment Decisions
Microseismic: Passive Seismic for Oil & Gas,
Geothermal, Carbon Sequestration Modeling, Sinkhole Detection, and Pipeline
Leak Detection and Monitoring. May 17, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Microseismic: Passive Seismic for
Oil & Gas, Geothermal, Carbon Sequestration Modeling, Sinkhole Detection,
and Pipeline Leak Detection and Monitoring
American Shale Pioneers Set to Explore the Middle East
for Unconventional Oil & Gas. May 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: American Shale Pioneers Set to
Explore the Middle East for Unconventional Oil & Gas
Trump’s Coal Revival Likely Doomed to Fail: Aside from
Delaying Plant Retirements and Near-Term Cost Savings, the Rest is Not
Desirable in the Long Term: Minerals Extraction from Coal Waste is One
Promising Area. May 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trump’s Coal Revival Likely Doomed
to Fail: Aside from Delaying Plant Retirements and Near-Term Cost Savings, the
Rest is Not Desirable in the Long Term: Minerals Extraction from Coal Waste is
One Promising Area
Frac Sand Mining in the U.S.: Ordovician St. Peter Sand
and Cambrian Sands in Wisconsin and Other U.S. Deposits, Including the Cambrian
Hickory Sands in Eastern Permian Basin Region and the Cenozoic Monahans Dune
Sands Between the Midland and Delaware Basins. May 20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Frac Sand Mining in the U.S.:
Ordovician St. Peter Sand and Cambrian Sands in Wisconsin and Other U.S.
Deposits, Including the Cambrian Hickory Sands in Eastern Permian Basin Region
and the Cenozoic Monahans Dune Sands Between the Midland and Delaware Basins
Viewpoint: Organic or intensive agriculture? Brazil
reframes the debate over the most promising future for farming – by Jon Entine:
Summary & Review. May 23, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Viewpoint: Organic or intensive
agriculture? Brazil reframes the debate over the most promising future for
farming – by Jon Entine: Summary & Review
USGS Study: Geospatial Analysis of Water-Quality Threats
from Orphan Wells in U.S. Aquifers: Study Review and AAPG Webinar Review. May 23,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: USGS Study: Geospatial Analysis of
Water-Quality Threats from Orphan Wells in U.S. Aquifers: Study Review and AAPG
Webinar Review
The Cretaceous-Aged Mowry Composite Total Petroleum
System: USGS Assesses Remaining Hydrocarbon Resources: Mainly Southwestern
Wyoming with Some in Colorado and Utah. May 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Cretaceous-Aged Mowry Composite
Total Petroleum System: USGS Assesses Remaining Hydrocarbon Resources: Mainly
Southwestern Wyoming with Some in Colorado and Utah
The History of Socialism and Capitalism – by Niall
Ferguson and Victor David Hanson - excerpted from The Human Prosperity Project:
Summary and Review. May 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The History of Socialism and
Capitalism – by Niall Ferguson and Victor David Hanson - excerpted from The
Human Prosperity Project: Summary and Review
HFC-23 Emissions from East China Chemical Plants
Magnitudes Higher Than Reported, According to Remote Monitoring, In Violation
of Kigali Amendment to Montreal Protocol. May 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: HFC-23 Emissions from East China
Chemical Plants Magnitudes Higher Than Reported, According to Remote
Monitoring, In Violation of Kigali Amendment to Montreal Protocol
New Stable Reverse Osmosis Membrane for Oil Separation,
Manufactured Using Interfacial Polymerization, May One Day Replace Oil
Fractionation Columns in Refining and Massively Reduce Energy Use. May 28,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Stable Reverse Osmosis Membrane
for Oil Separation, Manufactured Using Interfacial Polymerization, May One Day
Replace Oil Fractionation Columns in Refining and Massively Reduce Energy Use
USAID Spending Cuts: Are People Dying? The U.S. Gives the
Most by Country but European Countries as a Whole Give Nearly Double What the
U.S. Gives and Most EU Countries, Japan, and Canada Give More as A Percentage
of Gross National Income: China Gives Very Little. May 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: USAID Spending Cuts: Are People
Dying? The U.S. Gives the Most by Country but European Countries as a Whole
Give Nearly Double What the U.S. Gives and Most EU Countries, Japan, and Canada
Give More as A Percentage of Gross National Income: China Gives Very Little
New Oil & Gas Well Plugging Rule in West Virginia
Drops Requirement to Remove Casing. May 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Oil & Gas Well Plugging
Rule in West Virginia Drops Requirement to Remove Casing
USGS Releases Enhanced Geothermal Systems Electricity
Resource Assessment for the Great Basin Region of Nevada and Beyond. May 29,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: USGS Releases Enhanced Geothermal
Systems Electricity Resource Assessment for the Great Basin Region of Nevada
and Beyond
Brick Production Tweaks Can Significantly Reduce Air
Pollution in Bangladesh Says New Study. May 29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Brick Production Tweaks Can
Significantly Reduce Air Pollution in Bangladesh Says New Study
SCOTUS Rules 8-0 that NEPA Reviews Be Limited,
Reasonable, and Timely: Uinta Basin Oil-By-Rail Project Now More Likely to Go
Forward. May 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: SCOTUS Rules 8-0 that NEPA Reviews
Be Limited, Reasonable, and Timely: Uinta Basin Oil-By-Rail Project Now More
Likely to Go Forward
Climate Litigation Insanity: More Theatre Than Science
and It Invites Backlash. May 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Climate Litigation Insanity: More
Theatre Than Science and It Invites Backlash
Agrivoltaics: Studies Reveal That Sheep Grazing Between
and Under Solar Panels Have Better Health and Wool. May 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Agrivoltaics: Studies Reveal That
Sheep Grazing Between and Under Solar Panels Have Better Health and Wool
Land Reclamation and Restoration: Goals, Challenges, and
Methods. May 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Land Reclamation and Restoration:
Goals, Challenges, and Methods
Mexican Cartel Oil Theft and Smuggling Schemes Uncovered:
Assessing the Scope and Addressing the Problem. June 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Mexican Cartel Oil Theft and
Smuggling Schemes Uncovered: Assessing the Scope and Addressing the Problem
Steel Slag: A Useful Waste Material for Road
Construction, Carbon Sequestration, Acid Mine Drainage and Wastewater
Treatment, Agriculture, and Cost Savings. June 3, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Steel Slag: A Useful Waste Material
for Road Construction, Carbon Sequestration, Acid Mine Drainage and Wastewater
Treatment, Agriculture, and Cost Savings
Smelter-Free Nickel from Awuraite Ore: Nickel is in High
Demand and Discoveries in Newfoundland, Canada Are Significant: First Atlantic
Nickel Intends to Mine. June 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Smelter-Free Nickel from Awuraite
Ore: Nickel is in High Demand and Discoveries in Newfoundland, Canada Are
Significant: First Atlantic Nickel Intends to Mine
Baker Hughes’ Hummingbird Oil & Gas Well Cementing
Unit: Oilfield Electrification Continues. June 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Baker Hughes’ Hummingbird Oil &
Gas Well Cementing Unit: Oilfield Electrification Continues
Advanced Clean Energy Storage Delta Project in Utah Set
to Burn Natural Gas and Hydrogen and Store Them in Salt Dome Caverns Below a
Former Coal-Fired Plant Site. June 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Advanced Clean Energy Storage Delta
Project in Utah Set to Burn Natural Gas and Hydrogen and Store Them in Salt
Dome Caverns Below a Former Coal-Fired Plant Site
Sub-Saharan Africa Needs Fossil Fuels to Process Its
Critical Minerals – by Ryan Alimento and Seaver Wang. Breakthrough Institute.
Summary and Review. June 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Sub-Saharan Africa Needs Fossil
Fuels to Process Its Critical Minerals – by Ryan Alimento and Seaver Wang.
Breakthrough Institute. Summary and Review
Hybrid (HEV) vs. Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) vs. Battery
Electric (BEV): Cost, Incentives, and Emissions Comparisons. June 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Hybrid (HEV) vs. Plug-in Hybrid
(PHEV) vs. Battery Electric (BEV): Cost, Incentives, and Emissions Comparisons
Global Deforestation Surges in 2024 Due to Fires,
According to World Resources Institute. June 8, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Global Deforestation Surges in 2024
Due to Fires, According to World Resources Institute
Soil Stabilization and Solidification, and the Potential
to Incorporate Recycled Glass and Construction Waste into a Geopolymer-Based
Soil Solidifier. June 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Soil Stabilization and
Solidification, and the Potential to Incorporate Recycled Glass and
Construction Waste into a Geopolymer-Based Soil Solidifier
Columbus, Ohio’s Lower Olentangy Tunnel Reaches Boring
Destination: Stormwater and Sewage Overflow Management is the Goal. June 10,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Columbus, Ohio’s Lower Olentangy
Tunnel Reaches Boring Destination: Stormwater and Sewage Overflow Management is
the Goal
New York and New England Need Energy from Both Offshore
Wind and Natural Gas: Revived Empire Wind Project and Revived Constitution
Pipeline and Northeast Supply Enhancement Projects. June 11, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New York and New England Need
Energy from Both Offshore Wind and Natural Gas: Revived Empire Wind Project and
Revived Constitution Pipeline and Northeast Supply Enhancement Projects
Protesters and Activists Combine Anti-Zionist, Anti-ICE,
and Climate Justice Movements: Anti-ICE Protests May Empower the Trump
Administration, but Hopefully Not. June 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Protesters and Activists Combine
Anti-Zionist, Anti-ICE, and Climate Justice Movements: Anti-ICE Protests May
Empower the Trump Administration, but Hopefully Not
AI Modeling Finds Molecules That Can Rejuvenate Dead
Batteries. June 13, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: AI Modeling Finds Molecules That
Can Rejuvenate Dead Batteries
Satellites Empower Better Methane Detection from
Individual Oil & Gas Sites, and Also Suggest Efforts by Some Companies to
Avoid Detection: Implications of Greater Transparency. June 14, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Satellites Empower Better Methane
Detection from Individual Oil & Gas Sites, and Also Suggest Efforts by Some
Companies to Avoid Detection: Implications of Greater Transparency
NEPA Reform Needs to Be Further Addressed by Congress:
Otherwise, Delays Could Remain. June 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: NEPA Reform Needs to Be Further
Addressed by Congress: Otherwise, Delays Could Remain
Next Gen Uranium-235 Fuel System in Use at Georgia’s
Vogtle Plant Has Higher Enrichment and Better Heat Resistance. June 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Next Gen Uranium-235 Fuel System in
Use at Georgia’s Vogtle Plant Has Higher Enrichment and Better Heat Resistance
Iranian Oil Buyers and the Strait of Hormuz Chokepoint
That Iran Controls. Jume 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Iranian Oil Buyers and the Strait
of Hormuz Chokepoint That Iran Controls
Micropollutants from Tire Waste: Similar to
Microplastics, Prevalent Near Roadways, In Food: EV Tires Wear Faster. June 17,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Micropollutants from Tire Waste:
Similar to Microplastics, Prevalent Near Roadways, In Food: EV Tires Wear
Faster
Pollution and Fire Dangers from Wood Stoves is
Significant: Data and New Tech for Evaluation and Reduction. June 18, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Pollution and Fire Dangers from
Wood Stoves is Significant: Data and New Tech for Evaluation and Reduction
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) Are Powering
Many Oilfield Operations, Mostly Production, but Also Drilling and Pipeline
Transport. Jun 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors
(PMSM) Are Powering Many Oilfield Operations, Mostly Production, but Also
Drilling and Pipeline Transport
The Science Behind Soil and Water Conservation: Measuring
Trace Gases and Greenhouse Gases CO2, Methane, and N2O. Webinar Summary and
Review. University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture. June 19, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Science Behind Soil and Water
Conservation: Measuring Trace Gases and Greenhouse Gases CO2, Methane, and N2O.
Webinar Summary and Review. University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
Supply Chains of Recovered Elements: The SCORE Consortium
and U.S.-Sourced Scandium. June 20, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Supply Chains of Recovered
Elements: The SCORE Consortium and U.S.-Sourced Scandium
Turning Off Russian Oil and Gas Could Be the Key to
Ending the War: Prices Be Damned. June 21, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Turning Off Russian Oil and Gas
Could Be the Key to Ending the War: Prices Be Damned
Computational Chemistry Via AI and Quantum Computing: New
Research Finds Optimal Photocatalysts. June 22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Computational Chemistry Via AI and
Quantum Computing: New Research Finds Optimal Photocatalysts
Fervo Energy’s Deep Hot Enhanced Geothermal Well Shatters
Records: 15,765 feet, 520°F, 16 days. June 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Fervo Energy’s Deep Hot Enhanced
Geothermal Well Shatters Records: 15,765 feet, 520°F, 16 days
Decarbonizing Modern Public Transit Systems: Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries Leads Development of Automated Guideway Transits (AGTs). June
24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Decarbonizing Modern Public Transit
Systems: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Leads Development of Automated Guideway
Transits (AGTs)
The Emerging Cherokee Shale and Other Pennsylvanian Plays
in the Western Anadarko Basin. June 25, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Emerging Cherokee Shale and
Other Pennsylvanian Plays in the Western Anadarko Basin
H2S to H2 and Sulfur: Converting a Dangerous and
Destructive Waste Gas into Useful Products: Ongoing Research. June 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: H2S to H2 and Sulfur: Converting a
Dangerous and Destructive Waste Gas into Useful Products: Ongoing Research
HyTerra’s Nemaha Project in Kansas is Drilling Three
Exploratory Wells for Geologic Hydrogen and Helium. June 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: HyTerra’s Nemaha Project in Kansas
is Drilling Three Exploratory Wells for Geologic Hydrogen and Helium
Gold H2 Uses Microbes to Convert Residual Oil in Depleted
Well to Make Hydrogen: They Think They Can Soundly Beat Green Hydrogen Costs
with Similar Emissions. June 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Gold H2 Uses Microbes to Convert
Residual Oil in Depleted Well to Make Hydrogen: They Think They Can Soundly
Beat Green Hydrogen Costs with Similar Emissions
Fermi America’s Amarillo Hypergrid: Rick Perry and Texas
Tech Aim to Make the World’s Largest Energy and AI Data Center Campus Using
Nuclear, Solar, Natural Gas, Batteries, and Wind. June 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Fermi America’s Amarillo Hypergrid:
Rick Perry and Texas Tech Aim to Make the World’s Largest Energy and AI Data
Center Campus Using Nuclear, Solar, Natural Gas, Batteries, and Wind
Russia Offers to Supply LNG and Technology to Mexico: A
Proposed Option to Leverage Against Trump Tarrifs? June 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Russia Offers to Supply LNG and
Technology to Mexico: A Proposed Option to Leverage Against Trump Tarrifs?
Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage Systems (OCCSS) in
Shipping: Shanghai Qiyao Environmental Technology Conducts First Ship-to-Ship
Liquefied CO2 Transfer. June 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage
Systems (OCCSS) in Shipping: Shanghai Qiyao Environmental Technology Conducts
First Ship-to-Ship Liquefied CO2 Transfer
Health, Safety, Environmental, and Climate Impact
Comparisons of Energy Sources: Fossil Fuels Measure the Worst, Nuclear and
Renewables Measure the Best – By Far. July 1, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Health, Safety, Environmental, and
Climate Impact Comparisons of Energy Sources: Fossil Fuels Measure the Worst,
Nuclear and Renewables Measure the Best – By Far
UN Environmental Lawyer Calls for “Defossilization”: A
Ridiculous Demand to Eliminate Fossil Fuels by 2030. July 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: UN Environmental Lawyer Calls for
“Defossilization”: A Ridiculous Demand to Eliminate Fossil Fuels by 2030
MethaneSAT Loses Power and Control: $88 Million Effort to
Better Quantify Methane Emissions is Likely Lost. July 3, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: MethaneSAT Loses Power and Control:
$88 Million Effort to Better Quantify Methane Emissions is Likely Lost
EPA Faces Internal Dissent with Current Agency Mission as
Hundreds Who Signed Critical Letter are Suspended. July 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: EPA Faces Internal Dissent with
Current Agency Mission as Hundreds Who Signed Critical Letter are Suspended
Three Vital Practices for Soil, Water, Air, Plant,
Animal, and Energy (SWAPA-E) Conservation: Cover Crops, No-Till or Reduced
Tillage, and Nutrient Management. July 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Three Vital Practices for Soil,
Water, Air, Plant, Animal, and Energy (SWAPA-E) Conservation: Cover Crops,
No-Till or Reduced Tillage, and Nutrient Management
Analyzing Natural Gas and Ensuring Gas Quality Along the
Value Stream: Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Emerges as a Leading
Technology. July 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Analyzing Natural Gas and Ensuring
Gas Quality Along the Value Stream: Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Emerges as a Leading Technology
Vicuña Mineral Resource Discovery in Atacama Region of
Chile & Argentina is Biggest Find in 30 Years: Copper, Gold, and Silver.
July 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Vicuña Mineral Resource Discovery
in Atacama Region of Chile & Argentina is Biggest Find in 30 Years: Copper,
Gold, and Silver
How Much LNG Can the U.S. Ultimately Export Per Day? FIDs
Are in Place for 30BCF/day of Total Export Capacity by 2031. July 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: How Much LNG Can the U.S.
Ultimately Export Per Day? FIDs Are in Place for 30BCF/day of Total Export
Capacity by 2031
LNG-Coupled Near-Cryogenic Direct Air Carbon Capture Via
LNG Regasification and Physisorbents: 300% Cost-Reduction Potential According
to Study. July 8, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: LNG-Coupled Near-Cryogenic Direct
Air Carbon Capture Via LNG Regasification and Physisorbents: 300%
Cost-Reduction Potential According to Study
American Reindustrialization: Uncertainty in Power
Markets and Tariff Chaos in Steel, Aluminum, and Copper Markets. July 9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: American Reindustrialization:
Uncertainty in Power Markets and Tariff Chaos in Steel, Aluminum, and Copper
Markets
Carbon Farming Needs Better Measurement and Monitoring:
Soil Carbon Sequestration May Not Be Permanent: These are True, but the Paper
Seems to Be Politically Biased. July 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Carbon Farming Needs Better
Measurement and Monitoring: Soil Carbon Sequestration May Not Be Permanent:
These are True, but the Paper Seems to Be Politically Biased
The Western Hemisphere’s Near-Term Oil Production Growth
to Come from South America (and Canada). July 11, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Western Hemisphere’s Near-Term
Oil Production Growth to Come from South America (and Canada)
Chemtrails, Weather Modification, and Geoengineering
Conspiracies: People Are Gullible. July 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Chemtrails, Weather Modification,
and Geoengineering Conspiracies: People Are Gullible
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and
Conspiracies: How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths – by
Michael Shermer (Henry Holt, 2011) – Book Summary and Review. July 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Believing Brain: From Ghosts
and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies: How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce
Them as Truths – by Michael Shermer (Henry Holt, 2011) – Book Summary and
Review
Drill, Baby Drill, Six Months In? Fewer Wells Drilled and
Planned for the Rest of the Year. July 12, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Drill, Baby Drill, Six Months In?
Fewer Wells Drilled and Planned for the Rest of the Year
New Process Enables Recycling of Waste Sludges from Steel
and Aluminum Manufacturing. July 14, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: New Process Enables Recycling of
Waste Sludges from Steel and Aluminum Manufacturing
Union of Concerned Scientists: Decades of Deceit: The
Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages:
Summary, Review, and Commentary. July 15, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Union of Concerned Scientists:
Decades of Deceit: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate
Fraud and Damages: Summary, Review, and Commentary
Energy Sec. Wright Threatens to Abandon IEA as
‘Unrealistically Green,’ Prefers Reform. July 16, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Energy Sec. Wright Threatens to
Abandon IEA as ‘Unrealistically Green,’ Prefers Reform
Offshore Oil & Gas Discovery in Poland’s Permian
Basin Margin in the Baltic Sea is Very Significant: Could Be Biggest Find in
Europe in a Decade. July 22, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Offshore Oil & Gas Discovery in
Poland’s Permian Basin Margin in the Baltic Sea is Very Significant: Could Be
Biggest Find in Europe in a Decade
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria May Enable Lower Fertilizer Use
and Lower Costs. July 23. 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria May Enable
Lower Fertilizer Use and Lower Costs
ChatGPT Suggests That Taxing the Rich Fully According to
Their Bracket Would Be Fairer and Have Many Benefits for the Country. July 24,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: ChatGPT Suggests That Taxing the
Rich Fully According to Their Bracket Would Be Fairer and Have Many Benefits
for the Country
UN Claims Green Energy Has Reached a Cost Tipping Point:
Renewables Accounted for 74% of Global Electricity Growth in 2024: However,
Coal Demand is at Record Levels. July 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: UN Claims Green Energy Has Reached
a Cost Tipping Point: Renewables Accounted for 74% of Global Electricity Growth
in 2024: However, Coal Demand is at Record Levels
The Kaya Identity Formula for Carbon Emissions Drivers:
Human Population, GDP Per Capita, Energy Intensity, and Carbon Emissions
Intensity. July 24, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Kaya Identity Formula for
Carbon Emissions Drivers: Human Population, GDP Per Capita, Energy Intensity,
and Carbon Emissions Intensity
The Case for Compassionate Conservatism: Saving and
Improving Lives is Important and Worth It. July 25, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Case for Compassionate
Conservatism: Saving and Improving Lives is Important and Worth It
Utica-Point Pleasant Evaluations Via XRF
Chemostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy. July 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Utica-Point Pleasant Evaluations
Via XRF Chemostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy
Copper Smelting Plant in Germany Also Heats Water for
District Heating: An Exothermic Reaction Produces the Recoverable Heat
Chemically. July 26, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Copper Smelting Plant in Germany
Also Heats Water for District Heating: An Exothermic Reaction Produces the
Recoverable Heat Chemically
Groundwater Depletion and Its Effects: Subsidence, Sea
Level Rise, Continental Drying, and Supply Disruptions: New Study Quantifies
and Documents Growing Problem. July 27, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Groundwater Depletion and Its
Effects: Subsidence, Sea Level Rise, Continental Drying, and Supply
Disruptions: New Study Quantifies and Documents Growing Problem
LanzaTech’s LanzaX Spinoff: A Public Gas Fermentation
Carbon Utilization Company Moving into Synthetic Biology, but Not Yet
Profitable. July 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: LanzaTech’s LanzaX Spinoff: A
Public Gas Fermentation Carbon Utilization Company Moving into Synthetic
Biology, but Not Yet Profitable
Evapotranspiration Increases Humidity, Making Heat Waves
Slightly Worse: But ‘Corn Sweating’ is a Misnomer Since It is a Minor
Contributor. July 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Evapotranspiration Increases
Humidity, Making Heat Waves Slightly Worse: But ‘Corn Sweating’ is a Misnomer
Since It is a Minor Contributor
Trifluoroacetic Acid Rain: A Milder PFAS-Like Concern as
Environmental Concentrations Grow. July 28, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trifluoroacetic Acid Rain: A Milder
PFAS-Like Concern as Environmental Concentrations Grow
UK Firms Energy Cloud, YES Energy Solutions, and Amazon
Address Energy Poverty by Providing Free Hot Water Generated from Surplus Wind
Power. July 29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: UK Firms Energy Cloud, YES Energy
Solutions, and Amazon Address Energy Poverty by Providing Free Hot Water
Generated from Surplus Wind Power
Pay-as-Bid Vs. Pay-as-Clear: Complex RTO Payment Methods
for Power Markets Not Fair or Necessary, According to Op-Ed: (The Solution May
Be Tweaks Rather Than a Switch IMO). July 29, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Pay-as-Bid Vs. Pay-as-Clear:
Complex RTO Payment Methods for Power Markets Not Fair or Necessary, According
to Op-Ed: (The Solution May Be Tweaks Rather Than a Switch IMO)
Sproule-ERCE and Pulsar Helium Exploring Co-Producing
Geothermal Energy and Helium in Greenland. July 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Sproule-ERCE and Pulsar Helium
Exploring Co-Producing Geothermal Energy and Helium in Greenland
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McClusky Argues
Successfully That New York State’s Climate Change Superfund Act is Bonkers,
Unconstitutional, and Unfair. July 30, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: West Virginia Attorney General J.B.
McClusky Argues Successfully That New York State’s Climate Change Superfund Act
is Bonkers, Unconstitutional, and Unfair
From Full to Future-Proof: Extending Landfill Life
Through Innovation and Transparency. Webinar by EnviroSuite. July 30, 2025.
Summary & Review. July 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: From Full to Future-Proof:
Extending Landfill Life Through Innovation and Transparency. Webinar by
EnviroSuite. July 30, 2025. Summary & Review
Will Striking Down the ‘Endangerment Finding’ Lead to
State Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules? July 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Will Striking Down the
‘Endangerment Finding’ Lead to State Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules?
GeologicAI and the AI/Automation Potential for Mineral
Exploration, Mapping, and Mining. July 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: GeologicAI and the AI/Automation
Potential for Mineral Exploration, Mapping, and Mining
Should an Oil Executive Be in Charge of Renewable Energy
Policy? July 31, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Should an Oil Executive Be in
Charge of Renewable Energy Policy?
A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
on the U.S. Climate by Climate Working Group. (John Christy, Ph.D., Judith
Curry, Ph.D., Steven Koonin, Ph.D., Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. and Roy Spencer,
Ph.D.) U.S. Department of Energy: Summary, Review, and Commentary. August 1,
2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Critical Review of Impacts of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate by Climate Working Group. (John
Christy, Ph.D., Judith Curry, Ph.D., Steven Koonin, Ph.D., Ross McKitrick,
Ph.D. and Roy Spencer, Ph.D.) U.S. Department of Energy: Summary, Review, and
Commentary
Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers Abate VOC/HAP Pollution
and Odors in Several Industries. August 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers
Abate VOC/HAP Pollution and Odors in Several Industries
Ramaco Resources Brook Mine Carbon Ore Rare Earth Project
in Wyoming: First Rare Earth Mine in U.S. in 70 Years is Now Fully Permitted:
It Will Also Mine Powder River Basin Coal. August 2, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ramaco Resources Brook Mine Carbon
Ore Rare Earth Project in Wyoming: First Rare Earth Mine in U.S. in 70 Years is
Now Fully Permitted: It Will Also Mine Powder River Basin Coal
Energy Scarcity and Abundance: Effects on Power Markets,
Generators, Consumers, and Infrastructure Buildout. August 3, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Energy Scarcity and Abundance:
Effects on Power Markets, Generators, Consumers, and Infrastructure Buildout
Hydrogen Powder: Australian Company Ready to Pilot
Project That Stores H2 in Sodium Borohydride (NaBH4) Powder: It Has Several
Advantages Over Liquid H2 and Ammonia. August 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Hydrogen Powder: Australian Company
Ready to Pilot Project That Stores H2 in Sodium Borohydride (NaBH4) Powder: It
Has Several Advantages Over Liquid H2 and Ammonia
Wind Power: Trump, Robert Bryce, and Many Landowners
Despise It: Are They Correct to Criticize It? August 4, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Wind Power: Trump, Robert Bryce,
and Many Landowners Despise It: Are They Correct to Criticize It?
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Circularity, and
Other Trends in Sustainable Waste Management. August 5, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Extended Producer Responsibility
(EPR), Circularity, and Other Trends in Sustainable Waste Management
The Four Requirements for Effective Nature-Based Climate
Solutions Involving Carbon Offsets, According to New Research. August 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Four Requirements for Effective
Nature-Based Climate Solutions Involving Carbon Offsets, According to New
Research
BP’s New Oil Find in Sub-Salt Santos Basin Carbonates
Offshore Brazil is Huge but There are CO2 Concerns. August 6, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: BP’s New Oil Find in Sub-Salt
Santos Basin Carbonates Offshore Brazil is Huge but There are CO2 Concerns
Kimmeridge White Paper on Remaining North American Shale
Inventory is Informative: Summary Review, & Commentary. August 7, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Kimmeridge White Paper on Remaining
North American Shale Inventory is Informative: Summary Review, & Commentary
The Mancos Shale and Other Plays in the San Juan Basin of
Northwest New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado: Ripe for a Resurgence? August
9, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Mancos Shale and Other Plays in
the San Juan Basin of Northwest New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado: Ripe for
a Resurgence?
If True, Trump Administration Ordering De-Orbiting and
Burning Up of NASA Atmospheric Carbon Monitoring Satellite Seems to Be an
Egregious Waste of Investment and An Unnecessary Retribution Against Science
Itself. August 10, 2025. Blue
Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: If True, Trump Administration
Ordering De-Orbiting and Burning Up of NASA Atmospheric Carbon Monitoring
Satellite Seems to Be an Egregious Waste of Investment and An Unnecessary
Retribution Against Science Itself
Soil and Water Conservation Practices Addressing Nutrient Runoff in the Mississippi River Basin by State, According to the Agricultural Nutrient Policy Council. August 11, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Soil and Water Conservation Practices Addressing Nutrient Runoff in the Mississippi River Basin by State, According to the Agricultural Nutrient Policy Council
Groundwater Rise and Infrastructure Preparedness Act of 2025, Proposed in June, Aims to Address Rising Coastal Water Tables: Earmarks $ for USGS Study. August 12, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Groundwater Rise and Infrastructure Preparedness Act of 2025, Proposed in June, Aims to Address Rising Coastal Water Tables: Earmarks $ for USGS Study
Norway’s Equinor Turns on New Oil Field in the Barents
Sea: Johan Castberg Now Producing 220,000 Bbls Per Day with Hopes to Expand
Field to Near 1 Billion Barrels. August 13, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Norway’s
Equinor Turns on New Oil Field in the Barents Sea: Johan Castberg Now Producing
220,000 Bbls Per Day with Hopes to Expand Field to Near 1 Billion Barrels
Fraudulent Scientific Research is Growing: Scientific Journal Editors and ‘Brokers’ are Scheming Together: Motives Include Promoting Certain Medical Cures and Pressure to Publish. August 14, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Fraudulent Scientific Research is Growing: Scientific Journal Editors and ‘Brokers’ are Scheming Together: Motives Include Promoting Certain Medical Cures and Pressure to Publish
Ethane-to-Power: Hoston Electric’s NGL Fractionation Plant in Tennessee and ConocoPhillips Teeside Terminal NGL Fractionation Plant Project in the UK. August 14, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Ethane-to-Power: Hoston Electric’s NGL Fractionation Plant in Tennessee and ConocoPhillips Teeside Terminal NGL Fractionation Plant Project in the UK
A Paper Published in Nature That Predicted Huge Drops in GDP Due to Climate Change Shown to Be Inaccurate When the Data Was Examined: The Paper was Widely Cited and Widely Adopted in Climate Risk Modeling. August 15, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Paper Published in Nature That Predicted Huge Drops in GDP Due to Climate Change Shown to Be Inaccurate When the Data Was Examined: The Paper was Widely Cited and Widely Adopted in Climate Risk Modeling
The Decline of Coal is Due to Market Forces, Not a Conspiracy by Asset Managers to Harm the Industry: Echoing Benji Backer’s Op-Ed in The Hill. August 16, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Decline of Coal is Due to Market Forces, Not a Conspiracy by Asset Managers to Harm the Industry: Echoing Benji Backer’s Op-Ed in The Hill
Grid Inertia: Synchronous Generators and Synchronous Condensers, Often with Flywheels, Lead Spinning Reserve Assurance. August 17, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Grid Inertia: Synchronous Generators and Synchronous Condensers, Often with Flywheels, Lead Spinning Reserve Assurance
EPA’s Justification for Reversing the Endangerment Finding Not Based on Gold Standard Science, According to Professor Justin Ritchie. August 18, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: EPA’s Justification for Reversing the Endangerment Finding Not Based on Gold Standard Science, According to Professor Justin Ritchie
Gasified Farm Waste + Green Hydrogen = Green Methanol:
Longi’s $325 Project in China’s Inner Mongolia Aims for 400,000 Tons of Green
Methanol Per Year. August 19, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Gasified
Farm Waste + Green Hydrogen = Green Methanol: Longi’s $325 Project in China’s
Inner Mongolia Aims for 400,000 Tons of Green Methanol Per Year
Flywheel Battery Hybrids: Pairing High-Speed Flywheels with Lithium-Iron-Phosphate Batteries for Grid Stability: A Growing Trend. August 20, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Flywheel Battery Hybrids: Pairing High-Speed Flywheels with Lithium-Iron-Phosphate Batteries for Grid Stability: A Growing Trend
Compliance Monitoring for Carbon Sequestration: Webinar
by Battelle and Hart Energy, August 20, 2025: Review and Summary. August 21,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Compliance
Monitoring for Carbon Sequestration: Webinar by Battelle and Hart Energy,
August 20, 2025: Review and Summary
Study Estimates ‘Functional Biosphere Integrity’: Potsdam
Institute of Climate Impact Research Continues Useful ‘Planetary Boundaries’
Idea That, Unfortunately, Often Feeds Catastrophist Headlines. August 23, 2025.
Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Study
Estimates ‘Functional Biosphere Integrity’: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact
Research Continues Useful ‘Planetary Boundaries’ Idea That, Unfortunately,
Often Feeds Catastrophist Headlines
Polarized Light Pollution from Solar Panel Reflections
Affects Wildlife Behavior: It Can Trick Migrating Birds, Bats, and Insects:
Results are Mixed, but Solar Farms Can Be Designed for Positive Wildlife
Impacts. August 23, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Polarized
Light Pollution from Solar Panel Reflections Affects Wildlife Behavior: It Can
Trick Migrating Birds, Bats, and Insects: Results are Mixed, but Solar Farms
Can Be Designed for Positive Wildlife Impacts
Mining Critical Minerals from Other Minerals Mine
Tailings: The Source Could Be Huge, But Better Processing Tech is Required.
August 25, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Mining
Critical Minerals from Other Minerals Mine Tailings: The Source Could Be Huge,
But Better Processing Tech is Required
Drilling the Kevin Dome in Northwest Montana Yields CO2, Natural Gas, and Helium: New Processing Plant Will Separate the Gases for Sale. August 25, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Drilling the Kevin Dome in Northwest Montana Yields CO2, Natural Gas, and Helium: New Processing Plant Will Separate the Gases for Sale
Chemours Chemical Company, Formerly DuPont, Continues to
Violate Its Permit by Releasing Contaminants into the Ohio River: Recently
Ordered by a Judge to Stop. August 26, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Chemours
Chemical Company, Formerly DuPont, Continues to Violate Its Permit by Releasing
Contaminants into the Ohio River: Recently Ordered by a Judge to Stop
Phoenix Hit by a Massive Dust Storm, or Haboob: Dust
Storms = Natural Particulate Pollution. August 27, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Phoenix Hit
by a Massive Dust Storm, or Haboob: Dust Storms = Natural Particulate Pollution
Roger Pielke Jr. Compares Biden and Trump on Science
Integrity: Partisanship and Distrust are Real Issues. August 27, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Roger
Pielke Jr. Compares Biden and Trump on Science Integrity: Partisanship and
Distrust are Real Issues
A Review of Ted Nordhaus’s Article ‘How Bill McKibben
Lost the Plot,’ and Insights into the Current State and the Future of the
Climate Movement. August 27, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: A Review of
Ted Nordhaus’s Article ‘How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot,’ and Insights into the
Current State and the Future of the Climate Movement
North Sea Oil & Gas Discoveries: Aker BP’s Yggdrasil
Area Discovery and OKEA’s Brage Field Discovery, Both Offshore Norway. August
28, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: North Sea
Oil & Gas Discoveries: Aker BP’s Yggdrasil Area Discovery and OKEA’s Brage
Field Discovery, Both Offshore Norway
Geomechanical Energy Storage Via Pressurized Water in Oil
& Gas Wells: Quidnet Energy Gets Good Results. August 28, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Geomechanical Energy Storage Via Pressurized Water in Oil & Gas Wells:
Quidnet Energy Gets Good Results
Firm Transportation Contracts for Gas Pipeline Volumes:
How They Work and Will They Burden Ratepayers? August 28, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Firm
Transportation Contracts for Gas Pipeline Volumes: How They Work and Will They
Burden Ratepayers?
Chinese Scientist Unveils Method to Extract Ultra-Pure
Helium from Any Natural Gas Stream, and Researchers Find that Helium can
increase Rocket efficiency and Reduce Its Exhaust Plume Temperature. August 29,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Chinese
Scientist Unveils Method to Extract Ultra-Pure Helium from Any Natural Gas
Stream and Researchers Find that Helium can increase Rocket efficiency and
Reduce Its Exhaust Plume Temperature
Automated Grid-Scale Solar Panel Installation is 3 Times
Faster: Robotics Can Also Be Used for Surveying and Site Layout. August 29,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Automated
Grid-Scale Solar Panel Installation is 3 Times Faster: Robotics Can Also Be
Used for Surveying and Site Layout
Particulate Matter Pollution: Sources, Health Impacts,
Types & Sizes, and Regulation. August 30, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Particulate
Matter Pollution: Sources, Health Impacts, Types & Sizes, and Regulation
Automated Hydraulic Fracturing: The Rise of the Frac Bots
and Fully Closed Loop Fracturing. August 30, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Automated
Hydraulic Fracturing: The Rise of the Frac Bots and Fully Closed Loop
Fracturing
Legacy Phosphorus Management in Agricultural Soils and
the Local Environment: The 4R Nutrient Stewardship Management Program.
September 1, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Legacy
Phosphorus Management in Agricultural Soils and the Local Environment: The 4R
Nutrient Stewardship Management Program
Biomass Burial: Company ‘Mast Reforestation’ Buries Burnt
Trees for Temporary Carbon Credits: Biomass Carbon Removal & Storage is
Followed by Re-Planting That Allows Re-growth to Happen Faster. September 2,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Biomass
Burial: Company ‘Mast Reforestation’ Buries Burnt Trees for Temporary Carbon
Credits: Biomass Carbon Removal & Storage is Followed by Re-Planting That
Allows Re-growth to Happen Faster
Deep Utica Offers Big Dry Gas Potential as Tier 1
Marcellus Acreage Shrinks: DUG Appalachia Insights. September 2, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Deep Utica
Offers Big Dry Gas Potential as Tier 1 Marcellus Acreage Shrinks: DUG
Appalachia Insights
Methanogenesis: Part 1: Discovery of New Oxygen-Tolerant
Methanogens May Partially Explain Recent Increase in Biogenic Atmospheric
Methane: Coastal Methanogenesis is More Abundant Than Thought and Implications
for Methane Budgeting. September 3, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Methanogenesis: Part 1: Discovery of New Oxygen-Tolerant Methanogens May
Partially Explain Recent Increase in Biogenic Atmospheric Methane: Coastal
Methanogenesis is More Abundant Than Thought and Implications for Methane
Budgeting
Methanogenesis: Part 2: Deep-Sea Methanogens and
Chemosynthesis: Quantifying Its Contribution. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Methanogenesis: Part 2: Deep-Sea Methanogens and Chemosynthesis: Quantifying
Its Contribution
Methanogenesis: Part 3: Fingerprinting Methane by
Isotopes Reveals Sources and CRISPR Gives Insights into Enzyme Mechanisms for
Methanogenesis. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Methanogenesis: Part 3: Fingerprinting Methane by Isotopes Reveals Sources and
CRISPR Gives Insights into Enzyme Mechanisms for Methanogenesis
Methanogenesis: Part 4: Growth and Spread of Methanogens
Due to Fertilization, Ocean Currents, Warmer Oceans, Melting Glaciers, and
Deep-Sea Mining. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Methanogenesis: Part 4: Growth and Spread of Methanogens Due to Fertilization,
Ocean Currents, Warmer Oceans, Melting Glaciers, and Deep-Sea Mining
Methanogenesis: Part 5: Methane Budgeting and Determining
Source Contributions. September 4, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
Methanogenesis: Part 5: Methane Budgeting and Determining Source Contributions
35MW Electrolyzer Delivered for Linde’s
Hydroelectric-Powered Green H2 Project at Niagara Falls, New York. September 6,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: 35MW
Electrolyzer Delivered for Linde’s Hydroelectric-Powered Green H2 Project at
Niagara Falls, New York
Fuel Cells with Lower Operating Temps Via Scandium
Dopants and Vastly Expanded Lifespans Via Ultrafine Platinum Nanoparticles in
Graphene Pockets as Catalysts Offer Significant Benefits: Long-Haul Trucking
Can Benefit. September 8, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Fuel Cells
with Lower Operating Temps Via Scandium Dopants and Vastly Expanded Lifespans
Via Ultrafine Platinum Nanoparticles in Graphene Pockets as Catalysts Offer
Significant Benefits: Long-Haul Trucking Can Benefit
EIA Tabulates Drops in Russian Natural Gas, Coal, and Oil
Exports After War Sanctions: This is One Measure of Sanctions Effectiveness.
September 8, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: EIA
Tabulates Drops in Russian Natural Gas, Coal, and Oil Exports After War
Sanctions: This is One Measure of Sanctions Effectiveness
Abundance 2025: Reviews and Observations: Roger Pielke
Jr., Alex Trembath, and Emmet Penney Offer Their Takes. September 9, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Abundance
2025: Reviews and Observations: Roger Pielke Jr., Alex Trembath, and Emmet
Penney Offer Their Takes
ConocoPhillips’ Optimized Cascade LNG Liquefaction
Technology: Monkey Island LNG Chooses It for Planned Louisiana Terminal.
September 10, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0:
ConocoPhillips’ Optimized Cascade LNG Liquefaction Technology: Monkey Island
LNG Chooses It for Planned Louisiana Terminal
Redox Flow Batteries: Innovations and Projects: Vanadium
Flow Batteries Show Grid Storage and Overgeneration Management Capabilities:
EV-Powering Other Potential Apps. September 11, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Redox Flow
Batteries: Innovations and Projects: Vanadium Flow Batteries Show Grid Storage
and Overgeneration Management Capabilities: EV-Powering Other Potential Apps
The U.S Oil Refining Industry: Challenges Include
Closures, Weak Profits, and Demand for Renewable Diesel and SAF. September 11,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The U.S Oil
Refining Industry: Challenges Include Closures, Weak Profits, and Demand for
Renewable Diesel and SAF
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Transmitted by Infected Midges Kills Deer: Southeastern Ohio is a Hotspot in 2025: Climate Change is Certainly an Important Factor. September 15, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Transmitted by Infected Midges Kills Deer: Southeastern Ohio is a Hotspot in 2025: Climate Change is Certainly an Important Factor
Salinity Gradient/Osmotic Power Production: Japan Joins
Denmark in Recovering Pressure from Osmosis in a Desalination Plant to Spin
Turbines. September 15, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Salinity
Gradient/Osmotic Power Production: Japan Joins Denmark in Recovering Pressure
from Osmosis in a Desalination Plant to Spin Turbines
Trump Proposal to Sanction & Tariff Countries Buying
Russian Oil is Generally a Good One IMO. September 15, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Trump
Proposal to Sanction & Tariff Countries Buying Russian Oil is a Generally a
Good One IMO
Update on CalTech Space Solar Project: Solar Energy Was
Collected in Space, Converted to Microwaves, and Transmitted Successfully to
Earth: However, Significant Challenges Remain and There is Little Hope of
Economic Feasibility at Present. September 16, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Update on
CalTech Space Solar Project: Solar Energy Was Collected in Space, Converted to
Microwaves, and Transmitted Successfully to Earth: However, Significant
Challenges Remain and There is Little Hope of Economic Feasibility at Present
NREL’s Ultra-Low Inductance Smart (ULIS) Silicon Carbide
Power Module: Ultraefficient, Low-Cost, Compact, and Available to License. September
16, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: NREL’s
Ultra-Low Inductance Smart (ULIS) Silicon Carbide Power Module: Ultraefficient,
Low-Cost, Compact, and Available to License
Digital Exploration and Analysis of Rock Samples: Webinar
by Wiley and ThermoFisher Scientific, September 16, 2025: Review & Summary.
September 17. 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Digital
Exploration and Analysis of Rock Samples: Webinar by Wiley and ThermoFisher
Scientific, September 16, 2025: Review & Summary
Permian Staying Power: Inventory Now and Through the
2040’s: Decoding Inventory, Economics, and Drilling Pace in America’s Top
Basin. Webinar Presented by Brett Sinclair of NOVI Labs, September 16, 2025:
Review & Summary. September 18, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Permian
Staying Power: Inventory Now and Through the 2040’s: Decoding Inventory,
Economics, and Drilling Pace in America’s Top Basin. Webinar Presented by Brett
Sinclair of NOVI Labs, September 16, 2025: Review & Summary
Preventing and Managing the Formation of ‘Fatbergs’ in
Sewer Systems from Homes and Commercial Food Facilities: Two Promising Lines of
Research: More Efficient Traps and Coatings to Prevent Accumulation Along
Insides of Sewer Pipes. September 19, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Preventing
and Managing the Formation of ‘Fatbergs’ in Sewer Systems from Homes and
Commercial Food Facilities: Two Promising Lines of Research: More Efficient
Traps and Coatings to Prevent Accumulation Along Insides of Sewer Pipes
Regional Characterization and Classification of Salt
Structures in Kingdom (Software): AAPG Webinar, September 18, 2025: Summary
& Review. September 19, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Regional
Characterization and Classification of Salt Structures in Kingdom (Software):
AAPG Webinar, September 18, 2025: Summary & Review
Newsom Finally Relieves Some of California’s Energy
Hypocrisy: Oil Production Increase Approved in Kern County to Supply Local
Refineries and Reduce Local Fuel Prices. September 20, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Newsom
Finally Relieves Some of California’s Energy Hypocrisy: Oil Production Increase
Approved in Kern County to Supply Local Refineries and Reduce Local Fuel Prices
Liquid Air Energy Storage, aka. Cryogenic Energy Storage,
aka. Air Liquefaction: Potential for Long Duration Storage and Renewables
Integration, and New Korean Design Innovations. September 20, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Liquid Air
Energy Storage, aka. Cryogenic Energy Storage, aka. Air Liquefaction: Potential
for Long Duration Storage and Renewables Integration, and New Korean Design
Innovations
Rising Electricity Prices Have Nothing to Do with
Renewables Incentive Rollbacks or Trump Administration Policies. September 21,
2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Rising
Electricity Prices Having Nothing to Do with Renewables Incentive Rollbacks or
Trump Administration Policies
Gas Turbine Deployment Will Grow Regardless of Future
Energy Mix, Effects of Lower Utilization Rates on Turbine Components, and Long
Wait Times Likely to Continue. September 22, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Gas Turbine
Deployment Will Grow Regardless of Future Energy Mix, Effects of Lower
Utilization Rates on Turbine Components, and Long Wait Times Likely to Continue
The State of Utah’s Environmental Dispute with Company U.S. Magnesium, the Company’s Chapter 11 Filing, and the Implications for Domestic Magnesium Supply. September 24, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The State of Utah’s Environmental Dispute with Company U.S. Magnesium, the Company’s Chapter 11 Filing, and the Implications for Domestic Magnesium Supply
Beyond Rock Characterization: Deep Learning in Mineral
Classification: AAPG Webinar: September 24, 2025: Summary & Review.
September 25, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Beyond Rock
Characterization: Deep Learning in Mineral Classification: AAPG Webinar:
September 24, 2025: Summary & Review
Modeling the Future of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide
Infrastructure: Webinar by GTI Energy and Carbon Solutions: September 23. 2025:
Summary & Review. September 25, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Modeling
the Future of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure: Webinar by GTI Energy
and Carbon Solutions: September 23. 2025: Summary & Review
Oil Markets Face Uncertainty in Near Term: High Costs Led
by Tariffs, Policy & Regulatory Uncertainty, and Demand Uncertainty are
Factors in the U.S. September 26, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Oil Markets
Face Uncertainty in Near Term: High Costs Led by Tariffs, Policy &
Regulatory Uncertainty, and Demand Uncertainty are Factors in the U.S.
Unpacking the Hype: A Deep Dive into the Energy
Industry’s Lofty Natural Gas and Electricity Demand Projection: Webinar by
Natural Gas Intelligence and Yes Energy: September 23, 2025. Summary &
Review. September 27, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Unpacking
the Hype: A Deep Dive into the Energy Industry’s Lofty Natural Gas and
Electricity Demand Projection: Webinar by Natural Gas Intelligence and Yes
Energy: September 23, 2025. Summary & Review
Electrical Submersible Pump Optimization in Gas-Rich
Unconventional Oil Wells. September 29, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Electrical
Submersible Pump Optimization in Gas-Rich Unconventional Oil Wells
Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage: Chinese
Researchers Evaluate Henan Province Coal Mines for Pumped Hydro Potential:
Scientific Paper Review & Summary. September 30, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Underground
Pumped Hydro Energy Storage: Chinese Researchers Evaluate Henan Province Coal
Mines for Pumped Hydro Potential: Scientific Paper Review & Summary
Coal Nostalgia by the Trump Administration is Likely to
Be Short-Lived Due to Future Political Control and Regulatory Uncertainty.
October 1, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Coal
Nostalgia by the Trump Administration is Likely to Be Short-Lived Due to Future
Political Control and Regulatory Uncertainty
Solar is a Doubled-Edged Sword in Pakistan as it Helps
Farmers but Raises Power Prices and Accelerates Groundwater Depletion. October
2, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: Solar is a
Doubled-Edged Sword in Pakistan as it Helps Farmers but Raises Power Prices and
Accelerates Groundwater Depletion
The Energy Centrist: Blog by Geoscientist Jason Eleson:
Review. October 3, 2025. Blue Dragon Energy & Environmental Blog 2.0: The Energy
Centrist: Blog by Geoscientist Jason Eleson: Review
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