Jul
27
Laugh Until It Sinks In
July 27, 2010 | 3 Comments
Occidental Petroleum is running a very clever and funny ad supporting and informing about what petroleum is used for as well as natural gas, gasoline and diesel. As you’ve seen in the video lots of things will disappear. They even missed important stuff like the concrete foundation of the house, the asphalt roadway and the […]
Jul
14
Get the Money For Yourself
July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Sarah Max writing for Money Magazine, picked up by USA Today and now yours truly has five items plus that you might want to keep mind for those summer projects. Some edits are applied. First are those Federal rebates. In your local area the money might be gone but here is where to check. The […]
Jun
7
Fracturing the Bakken Triples Oil Reserves
June 7, 2010 | 17 Comments
With the BP gulf floor oil leak making the news – all bad even if they get it stopped, some good news is worthwhile. Especially when the Obama tribe has frozen the major U.S. controlled North American resources of oil development for political appeasement to ‘do something.” Meanwhile the Bakken formation in the north of […]
Apr
9
What’s Gone Wrong With Geothermal?
April 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
At a site like this what is missing can be very disconcerting. Missing in total positive content are big geothermal projects. It’s not all bad news. But for one post lets have a look at the problems. The current mainstream technology catch all term is Enhanced Geothermal Systems or EGS. Much of what geothermal is […]
Mar
9
Where Policy Starts for Right Now
March 9, 2010 | 19 Comments
Some commentary is so well organized and on point it deserves a wide hearing. At this blog we tend to look down the road at what might be coming, but. We have to get down the road in the meantime. John C. Felmy of the API has thought this through and managed to compress the […]