JCL Journal

The US Electric Grid: America’s Heartbeat

“The grid is awesomely complex. It is the largest machine in the world.” (Gretchen Bakke, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future)

By Lynn Dula | July 14, 2022

Let’s play a guessing game, see if you can guess what I’m describing… You use it everyday in many ways. You rely on it, but don’t often think about it. When it stops working, it causes massive problems. If you guessed the U.S. Electric Grid,…

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American Energy: A Brief History

“Taking a longer look at America’s future, there can be neither sustained growth nor more jobs unless we continue to have an assured supply of energy to run our economy.” President Ford (1976)

By Lynn Dula | June 29, 2022

American Energy Through the Years Despite what the marketing team at Dunkin Donuts tells you, the United States runs on electricity, not coffee. Currently, we are the second largest producer and consumer of electricity in the world. In fact, we consume about 20% of the…

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“Let’s Get Physical” (An Inside Look at a Crypto Mining Rig)

“Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.” -Edmund Moy (38th Director of the United States Mint)

By Lynn Dula | June 17, 2022

The Physical Structure of a Crypto Mining Rig Last week, the JCL Energy Journal took a look at cryptocurrency mining. Crypto is a global phenomenon that most of us have heard of, and many are jumping onboard and investing. Independent investors and corporations alike are…

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What IS Cryptocurrency?

“Investing in Crypto is like being married, you have to keep going through the good and the bad, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, ‘til death do us part.” ― Najah Roberts

By Lynn Dula | June 8, 2022

The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon In March of 2018, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary added the term “cryptocurrency” to its pages. The definition: “any form of currency that only exists digitally, that usually has no central issuing or regulating authority but instead uses a decentralized system to record transactions…

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We Are Innovators (Energy Industry Innovations Part 4)

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” William Pollard

By Lynn Dula | June 2, 2022

JCL Energy: We Are Innovators For our final piece in the Energy Industry Innovations series, we took a look inward at our own company. JCL Energy is not a huge company, but we have made huge strides to position ourselves as industry leaders. We are…

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