Energy Futurist/Analyst/Writer/Speaker. Host of @TransitionShow. EV-Grid Manager at @RockyMtnInst; views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
Oct 9, 2018 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
A short thread inspired by bloom.bg/2Nx24MQ ... A decade ago, serious peak oil students like me (as distinct from those who had shallow technical knowledge and focused on stock market moves and popular narratives) were looking at key data points... 1/
Field discovery rates vs. production rates. Reserve to production ratios. Field decline rates. Oil quality (API gravity, suitability to the refining sector, etc.). Investment required per barrel of new reserves. Net energy over time. Conventional vs. unconventional. Etc. 2/
Mar 17, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This Cambridge Analytica exploit of FB is precisely the reason I got off FB years ago, after studying its developer API. This wasn't a "breach" or a hack. This was using FB's API EXACTLY AS IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED. The "platform policy" is a fig leaf. bit.ly/2FQUJ7Q
All you have to do on FB is check that box saying "Yes I allow this [stupid app to pass my friend a virtual beer or whatever] to access my personal information" and you're meat, along with all your FB friends, for whichever anonymous person created that app.
