I heard from a landman that Comstock has a 10-year plan of just drilling in Leon County. Pressure of some of the first wells drilled in the area hasn’t dropped off but actually gone up. They have multiple wells producing 25-30 million cubic feet of gas per day. You can YouTube Western Haynesville field and they have tons of information about this area.
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BT Kahla recently recorded four one-year land purchase options for several hundred acres located just north of 79 midway between Jewett and Marquez. Here’s an article about the data center:
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/12/24/leon-county-bracing-1500-megawatt-data-center/
Comstock is Jerry Jones.
Green Energy lol. We need to require every windmill and solar plant to provide backup power when it’s dark or the wind stops. Require them to have shares in idle gas plants to replace lost power to the grid.
If we did this you would never see another windmill or new solar farm.
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Wind farms work when there is no wind and solar plants work at night because both store energy in batteries.
Who told you that about the batteries?
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That’s what makes wind energy not really green energy. They have to use fossil fuel backup generators.
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Lol in Greenies dreams. There aren’t enough batteries to provide backup power. The amount of carbon released to produce those batteries offsets the wind and solar savings. It’s all a waste of money.
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Lithium batteries can’t be charged and have to shut down in freezing weather or they get permanent damage, windmills shut down when loaded with ice, solar panels don’t work when covered in snow. How does the electricity stay on in winter?
Natural gas is really the only option since coal and nuclear can’t be brought online on a moment’s notice.
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They are required to have backup power. It’s usually large diesel generators.
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Run a large cap growth equity portfolio.
Data center growth may slow slightly but there is still solid demand for 60 plus GW of DC adds over the next two plus years and over 100 GW of new demand over the next five years. My guess is these estimates actually go up, not down, 12 months from now.
Natural gas is the best option for time to power, which is what the hyperscalers are most concerned about.
The public backlash is real, however, and it’s worth paying attention, but I hear nothing of slowing down AI. It’s much more about how to accelerate it.
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Sorry, that is not correct. Some offshore and remote Arctic installations have small diesel generators for emergencies, but the grid and batteries are far more common. If you’re going to invest in the energy sector, you should know your facts.
Wow, some serious dis-info here. The PRC built 80 GW of wind power last year, 320 GW of solar. The US added less than 50 GW total, and 90% of that was from renewables, new natural gas maybe 4 GW? We’re still by far the largest producer of natural gas in the world, but the rest of the world isn’t standing still: the PRC has been increasing their production by more than 13 bcm/year for the past 6 years. I’m still moderately bullish on US natural gas for the short and medium term, but there is a significant risk of oversupply in the longer term, IMHO.
I think some solar panels have heated strips in them to keep snow and ice from covering them.
I heard on the news the other day they are building the largest natural gas power plants in the United States in West Texas to run data centers. They were talking about how much pollution it’s going to release over the area. But what gets me is they say natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel. These environmentalists are never happy when they’re flying their own private planes to protest. Maybe it’s the pollution they are making flying out there.
Now all of a sudden they are worried about pollution. One volcano wipes out any global warming “progress.”
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Windmills are dropping their blades all over the country. They kill endangered birds all over the USA. Windmill operators should be charged the same fines and crimes as anyone who kills an endangered bird. Why are whales dying near offshore windmills? Just because loonies are pushing and taking people’s wealth to build these unprofitable sources of energy doesn’t make the growth a good thing.
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I guess you don’t read or watch enough news to catch the stories about businesses that were required to run their diesel generators because of the strain on the grid due to failing wind and solar power. Every new solar system should be required to have backup power or risk no power during peak demand times.
Put panels on your roof with enough batteries, you get cut off when the grid has a shortage. It’s the basic rule: steady regular customers get products first when there are shortages. Unless you pay for me to hold something in reserve.
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Yep, I get my wisdom from the People’s Republic of China. LOL.
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Wind and solar actually make the big power plants less efficient by reducing load at plant. They need to run at capacity or not efficient.
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Dang y’all sure know how to make a person spit out good whiskey.
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