athollywood

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by athollywood 3y ago
Airthings! It’s great.
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by athollywood 3y ago
I bought a fairly expensive air quality monitor. Accuracy wasn’t what caused me to go with a more expensive model. I wanted CO2 readings, which most models under $200 don’t provide.
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by athollywood 6y ago
Texas electric prices have been capped at $9000/MWHr for the last few days. Average is about $35/MWhr. The Texas electric bill is about $10 billion per day right now.
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by athollywood 8y ago
The pay is good enough but their are other constraining factors when it comes to extreme rapid growth in an area. Housing shortages are one example.
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by athollywood 8y ago
Not disagreeing with any of what you said, however I encourage you to consider the alternatives of pipelines. Rail and trucking typically have a significantly higher spill rate. https://www.iaee.org/en/publications&#x2F
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by athollywood 8y ago
Speaking as an employee at one of the largest independent E&P’s, we haven’t relied on debt and equity financing in the last few years because we have had enough free cash flow. The only thing slowing us down really is things like pipeli
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by athollywood 9y ago
My natural gas furnace doesn't vent to the outside, and neither does my stove. Natural gas has orders of magnitude less pollution than coal.
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by athollywood 10y ago
I guess I'll explain how the business side of drilling a well works. An operator (think Chevron) will decide where and when the well is drilled. They will then hire a drilling company (say H&P) that owns and operates rigs to drill
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by athollywood 10y ago
All of our data is proprietary unfortunately. This leads to another start up idea: a data consortium company for this type of work. I don't think we would mind giving the data up if there was a legitimate way to do so and if there was
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by athollywood 10y ago
I am. Google "fiber optic DAS" and you will find quite a lot. http://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/fiber-optic-sensors...
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by athollywood 10y ago
The oil and gas industry is ripe with potential start ups. Here are a few that come to mind: 1. A better system for automation and measurement. Current solutions aren't ideal when it comes to setting up new systems as well as updatin