Lawns Of Purple and Gold
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that we spill 17 million gallons every year just refilling our lawn machines. If so, that beats the Exxon Valdez spill of 10 million gallons.
Oil
Peak oil – May 10
•Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble •Availability of oil in the long term is dubious, as oil prices could in fact retreat, helping the tanker market •Shale Oil And Gas: The Contrarian View
Peak oil – Apr 30
•Peak oil isn’t dead: An interview with Chris Nelder •What If We Never Run Out of Oil? •‘Peak Fossil Fuels’ Is Closer Than You Think: BNEF
Is the Typical NDIC Bakken Tight Oil Well a Sales Pitch?
In this post I present the results from dynamic simulations using the typical tight oil well for the Bakken as recently presented by the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC), together with the “2011 average” well as defined from actual production data from around 240 wells that were reported to have started producing from June through December 2011.
The only true metric of energy abundance: The rate of flow
Okay, I’m going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow.
Scientific viewpoint or ‘religious’ belief: My cat explains energy optimism
Some ideas find their basis in fact, while others fall under the category of faith. But, then there is a vast sea of ideas parading as facts, when really, these ‘facts’ are nothing but ideology based on ideas that are empirically false or at least suspect.
5 Reasons Why Oil Companies Get Away With Overblown Field Estimates
We’ve all seen the big headlines over the few past few years proclaiming various new oil fields. These stories often go on to claim how the Age of Oilquarius is now upon us and we will swim and bath in seas of energy until the sun explodes and the universe ends.
Exxon’s Comprehensive Commitment to Safety Excellence
If the Arkansas spill is upsetting not for its relative scale, it might be for its proximity to…well, where we live.
The death of peak oil
"Peak oil is dead," Rob Wile declared last week. Colin Sullivan says it has "gone the way of the Flat Earth Society"…These comments inspired me to revisit some of the predictions made in 2005 that received a lot of attention at the time, and take a look at what’s actually happened since then.
Trains, pipes and oil spills – Apr 2
•Everything You Need to Know About the Exxon Pegasus Tar Sands Spill •Tar-sands oil spills in Arkansas and Minnesota •Oil spills disastrous for public relations •A train derailing, spilling 30,000 gallons of oil is still not a reason to build Keystone XL pipeline
Peak oil – Mar 29
•Oil majors are whistling past the graveyard •Peak Oil Is Dead [Global Oil Demand Growth – The End Is Nigh] •The Reward for Being Right About Peak Oil: Scorn Heaped With Derision •Russia Lets China Into Arctic Rush as Energy Giants Embrace
Motorville [a city addicted to oil]
The map of an american city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.
