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Happy Birthday, Admiral Rickover

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor used forContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Admiral Rickover”

Texas Smacks Lawless Sock Puppet Administration

Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a complaint and motion for temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking the Court to immediately halt the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) freeze on deportations of illegal aliens. On its first day in office, the Biden Administration cast asideContinue reading “Texas Smacks Lawless Sock Puppet Administration”

WTI Inventory Up

USEIA (January 22, 2021): U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.8 million barrels per day during the week ending January 15, 2021 which was 110,000 barrels per day more than the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 82.5% of their operable capacity last week. Gasoline production increased last week, averaging 8.9 million barrels per day.Continue reading “WTI Inventory Up”

Cooler Canada

The anthropogenic hypothesis holds the rising concentration of greenhouse gases is due to human activities alone with no contribution from natural sources. Natural sources can be the result of temperature change from non-greenhouse gas drivers and from natural sources (e.g., ocean, landmass). Atmospheric GHG has been growing steadily with no material change in slope forContinue reading “Cooler Canada”

Office Apocalypse

As reported in Bloomberg, new leases in the fourth quarter dropped 64% YoY to 4.6 million square feet. Average asking rents for the highest-quality offices fell 8.6% to $90.42 a square foot, a decline that doesn’t capture concessions such as free months or tenant-improvement allowances. And, as the graph above indicates, this may just beContinue reading “Office Apocalypse”