In the face of entrepreneurial innovation and energy, any such perfect storm would quickly disperse.
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"This is like the perfect storm of the energy situation, " said Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio.
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Hurricane Sandy is two weeks past, but the havoc the storm wreaked on energy markets along the East Coast is far from over.
"Katrina was a very large storm, high energy, high intensity coming across the gulf, " said Elizabeth English, an associate professor at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center.
Second, if a perfect storm comes together, energy stocks will provide protection against what might be an ugly market.
We see more of the elements for a perfect storm gathering in the energy and basic materials sectors.
The last time a "great geomagnetic storm" unleashed such energy on the earth (thereafter known as a Carrington Event for the British scientist who first detected it) was September 1, 1859.
'S energy trading floor in Houston, two meteorologists stare at storm patterns and nationwide temperatures on their monitors.
In clean and alternative energy, Chinese researchers have likewise been publishing up a storm, not surpassing U.S. researchers but coming close.
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"If you wanted to create a perfect storm for biological invasion, you would do what the energy companies are doing in north-central Pennsylvania, " said Kevin Heatley, an ecologist with the national firm Biohabitats who works to restore areas that have been damaged by human activity.
Late Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy said roughly 4.5 million Americans are without power due to storm damage.
"There was a little bit of a fog-of-war atmosphere, " said Jason Bordoff, the senior director of energy and climate affairs at the Obama administration's National Security Council during storm.
The weekly DOE energy stocks report, normally released on Wednesdays, has been delayed due to the storm.
The weekly DOE energy stocks report, normally released on Wednesdays, has been delayed by one day due to the storm.
According to Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, a Washington-based group that analyzes oil economics, a "perfect storm" of events within the last five years--including political instability in Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria--has undermined production expectations by as much as 3 million barrels per day.
Mr. DANIEL YERGIN (Cambridge Energy Research Associates): When people build offshore platforms, they build them for a hundred-year storm. 2005 was a year that you had not one but two hundred-year storms within a matter of weeks of each other, and the result was one of the biggest energy shocks since the 1970s.
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