Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Halliburton Acquired Boots & Coots On 9 April 2010
May 1st, 2010And then… ‘Last Resort’ Safety Device Failed in Fatal Drilling Incident: Boots & Coots Inc. of Houston and Amarillo, Texas-based GSM Enterprises Inc., two of the companies that extinguished hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in 1990, have been brought in to help cap the leaks. Halliburton’s timing was […]
U.S. Military May be Called On to Assist with Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
April 29th, 2010Via: CNN: The U.S. military may be called on to assist authorities scrambling to mitigate a potential environmental disaster posed by an oil spill expanding toward the Gulf Coast, the Coast Guard said Thursday. In addition, another controlled burn of the oil slick may be conducted, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Erik Swanson said. “We’re […]
U.S. Coast Guard Sets Oil Slick Ablaze
April 29th, 2010Via: Reuters: The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday set a “controlled burn” to battle a giant oil slick from last week’s deadly offshore drilling rig explosion, as the spill threatened wide-scale coastal damage for four U.S. Gulf Coast states. The leaking well, 5,000 feet (1,525 metres) under the sea off Louisiana’s coast, has created an […]
The Next Empire: China in Africa
April 28th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Africans’ attitudes toward China’s recent initiatives on their continent are perhaps inevitably riddled with ambivalence. Many African intellectuals bridle at Western criticism of China’s African full-court press. The West, they say, has long patronized their continent, and since the end of the Cold War, has subjected it to outright neglect. And all […]
Generating Megawatts Like Clockwork
April 22nd, 2010Flashback 1963: The International Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project Via: New York Times: A tidal plant in Manhattan, Maine or elsewhere in the United States that would feed significant power to the grid is at least a few years away.
BioLite: Rocket Stove That Runs the Fan by Converting Heat to Electricity
April 20th, 2010No, it’s not available yet. (In case you’re new to rocket stoves.) I think that this is the first one with a thermoelectric generator. Are there others? Via: BioLite: With the BioLite Stove you can step off the grid and leave the petrol at home. Whether you’re spending a month in Alaska or a night […]
U.S. Military Warns of Massive Oil Shortages by 2015
April 13th, 2010Flashback: U.S. Navy Researchers Claimed to Have Experimentally Confirmed Cold Fusion. Via: Guardian: The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the […]
Backyard Rocketeer
April 9th, 2010This one goes out to all of you who just can’t keep your inner freak down. Via: VBS TV: Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the backyard of his Morelos home/laboratory.
Two Arrested Six Years After Mallove Murder
April 4th, 2010Via: PESN: Two suspects were arrested Thursday and more arrests are expected in the long drawn out case of the murder of cold fusion physicist and Free Energy science pillar, Dr. Eugene Mallove, formerly with MIT, most famous for his advocacy of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.
Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming
March 31st, 2010Imagine my shock. Via: Guardian: We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with […]
