Jonathan Parry

From upstream oil & gas to lithium brine, geothermal, and distributed microgrids: the common thread is turning physical risk into investable, resilient assets. The frameworks are the same — only the resource changes. #EnergyTransition #WaterResources #Geothermal #Microgrids @AlbemarleCorp @ScaleMicrogrids @PGE4Me @WoodMackenzie

@War4theWest @KatTimpf My mother died of cervical cancer when I was fourteen - it’s something you never get over and like you I shed a tear on Mother’s Day too. Thanks for sharing.

Beyond extending my most heartfelt condolences, let me share the following in the spirit of opening up as much as you did here, which is quite rare in our plastic world today. I lost my Mom when I was 11 - 54 years ago. She was an amazing, intelligent, loving woman who died far too young. My Dad was a broken, vicious man who literally seemed to hate me at times for reasons I could never understand. It may seem impossible to do now but I encourage you to focus on appreciating what you had and how fortunate you were to have had it. Many of us haven't had such a father at all or as much time as you had with your Mom. I know - more than most - how hard it is to accept loss. But take consolation in the idea that you can actually recover from any loss. I lost 6 family members in 8 years - mom, aunt's, uncles and grandparents. My Dad is gone now too. I recovered. You'll never be 'over' it, such grief just dulls and becomes more distant and less present, but it never goes away completely. I found myself shedding a tear, alone, on Mother's Day this year. But it doesn't cripple me. I can thrive and make the most of the life I have. I hope this is received in the compassionate, caring spirit in which I wrote it. I'll pray for you, your father's immortal soul and for your entire family.

My seemingly healthy, strong father Daniel “Dad Timpf” Timpf died very unexpectedly on the evening of May 7 at just 69 years old.   It does not seem like enough to simply call him my father, because he was so much more than that. He was my rock, my hero and my best friend. He was loyal, funny, kind, selfless, hard-working, and so devoted to his children that it was impossible to be near him and not find yourself inspired. He was a writer, a painter, a sailor, and somehow knowledgeable on every subject from world history to literature to accounting. He was the most dependable person anyone has ever met. I always felt like, as long as I had his phone number, there was not a problem I could not solve. I needed him here with me; I am not okay, and I am far from the only person who feels this.   The birth of my son in February 2025, his first grandchild, was supposed to be a happy new beginning for our family. A family that had been already once devastated by an untimely loss: the loss of my mother Anne Marie to a rare disease in 2014 just a matter of weeks after her diagnosis.   The joy of my son’s birth was, of course, complicated by my also very unexpected breast cancer diagnosis just a matter of hours before going into labor with him. During this time, my dad did what he did best, which was to save the day. As soon as he heard about my diagnosis, he simply got into the car and started driving to New York -- making it through the tunnel just as my  son was born…on the day that happened to be his own birthday, as well.   In the tumultuous time of a simultaneous new cancer diagnosis and new baby, my dad was the sole reason for our stability, rushing in to help care for our son, and returning to do so again for my double mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, and any time that we ever needed him. It was an awful, awful year… but I found so much joy and hope throughout it by watching the beauty of a very special relationship form between my son and my father. This horrible thing that was happening was creating such a very special bond between the two of them -- almost making the terrible thing worth it -- and I was so excited to see how that bond would grow.   The bond was of top priority for my father, who visited from Michigan often. I saw him last on the Monday before he died, and my son was so proud to help his grandfather push his suitcase down to the car as he left. The goodbyes were quick. Why wouldn’t they be? We would all see each other again at the beginning of June, when we would all head to Texas for my shows and to see my grandpa. We wanted to make sure that my son could spend as much time as he could with his great-grandfather. He is, after all, 93.   I was certainly not over the trauma of my cancer or having to amputate the breasts I so badly wanted to feed my son with, but the one thing I could always count on to get me through my worst moments was seeing my son’s and my father’s faces light up when they saw each other, be it during the visits or our routine morning and bedtime FaceTime calls.   That is, at least, until I had to hear over the phone from a doctor I had never met in an emergency room in the same town up north that I’d previously announced to my father that I was pregnant that my dad was dead; I would never see him again, and neither would my son. It would turn out that last year was not the hard one, after all. Rather, it was the one I would now do anything to relive. I would amputate my breasts every year just to be able to speak with him one more time, even for five minutes.   I am currently living an unimaginable horror. For many people, this is a tragic story. For me, it’s my life. I do not know how I will recover from it. I only know that I have to for the sake of what is left of my family.

@jackprandelli The US is more efficient at turning exploration expense into production cash

This chart ranks countries by reserves. Production tells a different story. Venezuela has the biggest reserves (303B) But before the change of MAduro its production was only 500k bpd. US is number 8 in reserves (84B) but lifts 13.6 mbd. The US lifts 27x more oil per year on roughly a quarter of Venezuela's reserve base. Reserves are inventory. Production is the trade. Do not miss my latest article, link in replies

@afneil Spot on with the numbers. The Type 45s were made so complex (integrated electric propulsion, etc.) that they now have terrible uptime and endless refits. Same story with the remaining Type 23s. The US Navy runs carriers and destroyers/frigates on the classic operate/train/maintain cycle - that’s why they need a 3:1 ratio just to keep one forward deployed. We don’t. Maybe, just maybe, we simply don’t have enough hulls any more.

This is the Royal Navy. We don’t have a navy. Rule Britannia? We can’t even rule the village pond. Or the Serpentine.

@gail_gail9dd @StateDept The UK North Sea was murdered - the official reserve / resource numbers are the body and Norway is the witness.

@StateDept From the UK 🇬🇧 he hasn’t a feckin clue about our country. We have extracted 90% of the oil and gas from the existing fields. Opening new fields is expensive, challenging and not economically viable. We like our multi cultural society, 94% of the country is white ffs 🤦‍♀️

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I love the UK, but I think they made a big mistake on energy. They should open up the North Sea in Aberdeen. They’ve also made a big mistake on immigration.

@business Trump wants the US, UK and Venezuela to replace Russian oil into India.

Trump administration officials urged US oil producers to boost output, driving home a message to the industry that’s become more urgent amid the war in Iran bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

READ THIS: - Hydraulic fracturing and all the drilling and completion infastructure associated with it is required for geothermal anywhere #sage #fervo #zanskar - We still need oil regardless of your views on net zero, it’s simply not ethical to push that burden elsewhere when we can produce it in the UK. - We have enough natural gas in the UK to be energy self-sufficent (I should know I did the first shale gas resource assesment in Europe for CERA in 2012).

So producing your own oil and gas does nothing for energy security. I see. If that’s true of Britain it must be true of other fossil fuel producers too. But of course it isn’t.

Happy to share the exact frameworks I built at ConocoPhillips and later applied to cleantech portfolios. Actively exploring leadership roles in exactly these spaces - DM or reply. #EnergyTransition #WaterResources #Geothermal #Microgrids #ProcurementTransformation @AlbemarleCorp @ScaleMicrogrids @PGE4Me @WoodMackenzie

Water intensity in lithium extraction, thermal risk in geothermal drilling, and grid-edge reliability in microgrids all need the same upstream risk-management DNA: - Probabilistic modeling - Real-options valuation - Regulatory & ESG integration #EnergyTransition #WaterResources #Geothermal #Microgrids @AlbemarleCorp @ScaleMicrogrids @PGE4Me @WoodMackenzie

@BBCWorld This offshoring binge is corporate seppuku by proxy, betting short-term profits on long-term loyalty from abroad. If India calls the bluff, U.S. STEM becomes a spectator to its own empire's fall - IT, Oil, Pharma, Consulting …

Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India bbc.in/4a928Ae

@Mike_Pence Tariffs are paid by US Importers, I should know - I am writing the cheques. Smuggling using $0.7/lb DDP schemes avoid the tarriff altogether, please investigate.

American Tariffs are Paid by American Businesses and American Consumers. Time for Free Trade with Free Nations🇺🇸

Affordability is the correct normative goal, yet California’s regulatory framework still optimizes for lowest apparent ¢/kWh rather than lowest system-cost ¢/kWh when wildfire risk, resilience, and decarbonization are fully internalized. The inconvenience is real: we’re asking a 100-year-old cost-of-service model to fund a 21st-century energy transition. Until the CPUC (and legislature) shift allowed returns from risk-reduction and long-term system value rather than just wires-in-the-ground, high bills will remain the symptom, not the disease.

Californian Utilities rake in too much profit, PERIOD. The rate increases charged by our utilities are exponential, and are a leading cause in California's affordability crisis. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE DECIDING WHETHER TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE OR KEEP THE LIGHTS ON. #Energy

Spot-on critique of monopoly risk, but California’s challenge is unitary: one state, 40M people, wildfire terrain, and the nation’s most ambitious decarbonization mandate. The real metric isn’t raw ¢/kWh - it’s ¢/kWh delivered safely and reliably through a modernized, resilient grid. An indexed “Value-Add per Dollar Invested” (safety + reliability + emissions avoided + economic multiplier) would show where infrastructure spend actually creates net benefit for customers. Happy to share a framework I’ve used in upstream transition planning that adapts perfectly to utilities.

A monopoly delivers the worst possible product at the highest possible price. Welcome to California’s investor-owned utilities.

@NikkiHaley It seems like there is a shortage of chips and memory which is predicted to lead to shortages / downstream effects on US supply chains.

Ending the ban on powerful AI chips to China will backfire, costing America more than we gain financially. By selling the very tools China needs to out-compete us, we undermine our own national security.

@honestpollster We need leadership: a vision for the future and policy that addresses peoples fears about what is to come.

AI and robotics advancement seems to be a major White House focus... Is it being sold well? July: Only 29% of Americans say AI will make life better. May: 72% concerned about threats posed by AI and Voters support UBI by a 3-to-1 margin if AI destroys jobs.

@EngineerChiefCE @JillFilipovic Oh crap, that would be me 🤠👍

@JillFilipovic Who the hell pays for someone to clean their one bedroom apartment?

If you would like to pay $30 for a pint of strawberries, $700 for someone to clean your one-bedroom apartment, and $100,000 for a new roof on your normal-sized house, then deporting all undocumented people is a policy you should support.

@JobsNowPR What about sending Americans overseas to train instead?

OK new plan: Please let the administration know training visas exist already that have unlimited caps. There doesn’t seem to be anyone aware of this so perhaps if we inform them we can kill this talking point in favor of H-1B and OPT.

@hernandoarce Those poor kids, are they okay?

BREAKING: Mexican Torta Alert: Today in Aurora, ICE agents surrounded the car of a deranged woman who was using her vehicle as a deadly weapon to obstruct a police investigation putting her children in the car in jeopardy. Pepper balls we’re fired into her windshield as she screamed that her children were inside Agents then dragged her from the car and arrested her. She voluntarily released her telephone number so her neighbors call call CPS on her and open an investigation for child endangerment.

@tedcruz I am one of the 200 life members to call for his removal as President from the Oxford Union.

I’m curious, would Oxford allow a student to wear a KKK robe, burn a cross on campus & hold up signs calling for Black people to be murdered? Of course not. That student would be expelled. And so should this one.

@RAD_ED @atutruckers Yep, agree. I would freak out if a truck came at me on the wrong side of a bridge too.

WRONG WAY TRUCK DRIVER REMOVED AT GUN POINT - 🚨RAJ TRANSPORT 🚨 WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Raleigh May Cupples was driving across the I-55 bridge Tuesday when the vehicle in front of her changed lanes – and she saw a semi-truck driving in her direction. “The big truck gets over in the right lane, and that’s when I see that truck,” Raleigh said. “My first thought was, is this a truck hooked up to another truck pulling it?” Video taken shortly before shows the semi-truck was actually driving down the wrong lane of traffic. Arkansas State Police arrived on the scene. By this point, Raleigh said they were on the Tennessee side of the bridge. The trooper jumped the median with his weapon drawn, she said. She began recording video at this point. The trooper holstered his weapon, jumped down from the barrier, and went to the driver’s side of the cab. From there, the officer opened the door and attempted to get the driver to exit the vehicle. Raleigh said the man refused. The trooper tried to pull the man out of the vehicle, but it appears in the video that the man resisted. A second trooper arrives with a rifle, and a third officer also shows up with a gun drawn. With multiple officers working together, they pull the man out of the vehicle and take him to the ground.