energy

From The Director Of “spOILed”

April 6, 2012

I was mailed this by an oil industry colleague with whom I share many views on how energy is made and its future. spOILed is yet another documentary/film making the rounds following the rise of domestic onshore shale gas drilling, especially in the northeast United States shale trends. Its director, Mark Mathis, outlines his motives [...]

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Get Your Energy Soundbites In Order, Folks

October 25, 2011

Before you read on, consider this: Much like with patients and doctors in the case of the healthcare debate, neither folks who have to live in the filth nor those who actually work in the energy industry get a say in the policymaking. In other words, this conversation is held at all the wrong levels. [...]

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On Bayes And Uncertainty Analysis

August 18, 2011

“When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” — Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister The New York Times reviews Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. Three [...]

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Texan Whiplash

July 15, 2011

Yesterday’s Houston Chronicle: Texas’ main electric grid operator is warning customers to reduce their usage during the peak power demand hours of 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. today as high temperatures and unexpected power plant outages will stretch supplies. Today on Capitol Hill: An amendment from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) defunding the Energy Department’s standards for [...]

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Post-Moratorium

June 9, 2011

Here is a good article on the latest from the oil patch: ExxonMobil Announces Three Discoveries in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico I’m not going to name any names, but there has been some stupid reporting on this in the last couple of days. Note to self: Write a primer on how not to report an [...]

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Dumb As A Box Of Rocks

December 3, 2010

“A is for Arsenic someone thought fun To include on the icing on top of a bun.” – “ABC” by The Tiger Lilies & Kronos Quartet When an undergraduate and folks asked me why I went into geology, I’d reply, “Because you can talk to rocks and they don’t talk back.” Unlike with humans, entities [...]

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Rally To Just Kinda Be Ourselves For One Day, Part II

November 2, 2010

The costumes. This is why you have to go vote today. So I stop inflicting these nerdy, quadruple-entendre getups on you. The sad part is D’s costume didn’t take all that much effort and HE got high fives and “Duuuuude” all day long, while people came up to me and said, “What are you?” (or [...]

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Day 150 Unvanished, Unfinished

September 16, 2010

Untoward. But not unfathomable. We, in these here parts, are accustomed to years-long aftermaths and revelations, after all. WDSU.com | Government Accused Of Bungling Spill Evidence: Companies Say Failed Blowout Preventer Not Adequately Preserved al.com | Oil spill claims czar: “I over-promised and under-delivered” Meanwhile, back in the real world where people live and die [...]

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Narratives a.k.a. Of Happy Hive Minds And Prevailing Versions Of History

September 3, 2010

It appears America up and exploded in these past few weeks. Specifically in the last few days. But It’s All Under Control. As you were. On August 22nd, a 400-person riot broke out in the peaceful, hippie-beatnik town of Ft. Collins, Colorado. Irony: It happened right after Earth, Wind & Fire performed at something called [...]

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Day 121 Sophisticated Technology

August 18, 2010

NPR | Hungry For Oil: Feeding America’s Expensive Habit A nice quick look at America’s current hydrocarbon extraction technologies. But this: New technology has changed oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico too. As seen in the wake of BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf, companies have sophisticated technology like remote-controlled submarines. That means they can [...]

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