Rowan University researchers professors K.V. Ramanujachary, Amos Mugweru, and Peter Jansson have released their report outlining the results of an off-site replication and independent testing of the new Blacklight power system. The team independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s […]

It’s coming apart, CO2 as the culprit destroying the atmosphere’s insulating properties, so heating up the planet to a runaway greenhouse like Venus, has the accusations’ bits and parts getting ditched.  A couple weeks ago there was a scandal about how an invited counter view was handled at the American Physical Society and just hours […]

ConocoPhillips has big plans in the oil sands. They understand the length and breadth of the reserve and the attitude in Alberta is about as good, maybe the best of any province or state.  While stringent regulations apply, they’re clearly set out, enforced with reason and the business ethic up there tends to support being […]

Making Syncrude

August 12, 2009 | 14 Comments

Making “syncrude” which is not actually a synthetic manmade chemical compound, rather it’s a kind of pre cleaned and semi refined crude oil, is a multistep process as done by Syncrude Canada. Because the oil used in making syncrude is not deeply buried, surface mining is the most viable method of recovery.  The oil is […]

I was going through the Oil Sands Development Centre in Fort McMurray last Friday evening with Gail the Actuary from the OilDrum.  We came upon a perma poster showing a part of the bitumen oil molecule, a very long carbon chain thing with a smattering of hydrogen atoms mounted here and there.  In the course […]

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