On the op-ed page of the  Honolulu Advertiser  was an article by Heather Reams and Rebecca Lorenzen entitled:   Hydrogen is key to climate battle, but we must get it right . Heather Reams is president of  Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES),  a right-of-center non-profit based in Washington, D.C., and has been doing so since 2016. CRES advocates for a clean energy policy in the U.S. Was founded in 2013 by James Dozier to engage Republican lawmakers in the conversation about clean energy, and promote subsequent energy policy as a nonpartisan issue. In 2017 had an ad campaigned directed at President Donald Trump to either stay in the Paris climate accords or to renegotiate. In 2018 received a $1 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation. In 2021 partnered with ClearPath to bring Republican lawmakers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.  This was the first time a Republican-only delegation attended a UN clim...

  We have docked at Uturoa, Raiatea, French Polynesia.  Woke up to take this photo from my veranda. We will be in this general area for nearly a week, so later this week I'll provide details about this region, which has an Exclusive Economic Zone Area of 1.7 million square miles.  The  Hawaii EEZ , including all those northern islands, is only 0.6 million square miles. So what's the big deal about the Exclusive Economic Zone?  Some day, perhaps seabed mining and other ocean development rights, like the Blue Revolution, will be affected. On this sci-tech Wednesday, I will continue my monthly tally of latest energy news, mostly from  Energy Matters , soundbite summaries of the American Energy Society, ending with an article describing Hawaii's attempt to become a national hydrogen hub. Conventional wisdom: US crude oil production will continue to   increase  for the foreseeable future, surpassing the record high of 12.44 million bpd by the end of 20...