Category Archives: Energy

Nuclear war isn’t all bad

National Geographic reports that “A Small Nuclear war could Reverse Global Warming for years” Wasn’t their magazine more fun when it was just legal porn?

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How about $400 billion? Can we still be Kings?

Oh boy! The Saudi Royal family is offering up $36 billion to its poor and middle class to fend off unrest and $400 billion over the next 3 years. The Story The first red flag is they’re going to give … Continue reading →

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How bad science happens

I worked briefly in the 1980s for a doctor who was a pioneer in arthroscopic knee surgery to repair ACL tears.   He came up with a theory that by doing a certain procedure he invented that he could help people … Continue reading →

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Mexico’s gasoline shortage

One of the shows I was listening to during testing mentioned that the United States exports a lot of refined oil products made from imported crude – which sounds interesting given the rhetoric of “The United States hasn’t built any new oil … Continue reading →

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In other news

Saudis’ Bin Ladin Group set for nuclear deal with French firm This comes a few days since Wikileaks released a 2008 cable that France intended to sell civilian nuclear technology to Libya. So has the caliphate already swallowed France?

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Stunning

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil_3 Where has this news been hiding?   “Fracking” also works for oil in addition to natural gas.   As a result, domestic oil production has been going up the last two years while consumption has been going down (because of the … Continue reading →

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Bringing new things to light

Jeff Immelt is all over the news today, hanging out with the Communist President Hu of China, and Barack Obama. Jeff Immelt is the head of General Electric, a company so big and diverse that when I was in college … Continue reading →

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Not worth a Canadian Dollar

The US dollar, that is. Chart Unlike the times during the past year when the USD/CAD rate went below $1.00 for a day, this looks like a trend. The rate is only psychological as the Canadian dollar has no hard … Continue reading →

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Can you hear me now?

It is a fact of life that whenever government “fixes” problems, they create new problems. An example that I wrote about in the old blog is now being “fixed again” by the House today. The pressure to increase gasoline economy … Continue reading →

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Two things you may not know about Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon burning and sinking in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t the only thing it ever did. In September 2009, Deepwater Horizon made national news when BP announced it had discovered a huge oil field at 35,000 feet under the … Continue reading →

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Google car in your future?

http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/ It’s a logical evolution from the ability of Google Maps/Earth to generate driving directions. Beyond the obvious predatory lawyer issues, the challenge a Google car might create is similar to the problem created by ABS. While ABS is a … Continue reading →

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What Government created the Stuxnet worm?

The NY Times has a theory NY Times This worm is purported to allow remote control of devices using Siemans controllers, like nuclear power plants, oil pipelines, and other industrial controllers… It is far too sophisticated to have been the … Continue reading →

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“Christians who speak in tongues are mad”

A leader of the National Democratic Party in Ghana has officially declared that “Christians who speak in tongues are mad”. Probably not mad enough to burn a Koran, though. Business Ghana Coverage Ghana has been in my news watch since … Continue reading →

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BP well, the final chapter

So here is where we are – using the original BOP, the well has been plugged from the top.   It’s important to understand there are two issues – the interior of the casing, and the area around the outside of the … Continue reading →

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Sugar with your Tea Party?

NY Times story about Florida Everglades Any time I go to the NY Times, I try to figure out their motivation for writing a story, especially one that has nothing to do with New York. Florida Governor and U.S. Senate … Continue reading →

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