Deepwater Oil Spill - another weather pause

The weather is currently holding up the proceedings at the Deepwater Horizon well site. The seas are some six to eight feet, which is appar...

Deepwater Oil Spill - a slight pause while we wait

With Hurricane Danielle disappearing into the North Atlantic, and Earl trying to decide where to go next, we have Fiona waiting in the wings...

Supporting underground tunnels

With thoughts of the miners in Chile, and suggestions that a rescue tunnel will also be started to try and drive down through the broken roc...

California temperatures, the TOBS data

Back in April I first commented on the historic California temperature changes, using the homogenized data then available from the USHCN. ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - stopping the fish

The attempts to recover pipe from within the blowout preventer (BOP) on the Deepwater well have now halted, without being able to recover an...

Deepwater Oil Spill and San Jose Mine concerns

There has not been much apparently said about the fishing for pipe within the blowout preventer (BOP) at the Deepwater well today. The proj...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Recovering pipe

The problem with not watching the video feeds from the ROVs at the Deepwater site on a very regular schedule is that it becomes hard to defi...

Deepwater Oil Spill - More questions than answers

Hmm! So what is going on at the well? On Tuesday evening there were a couple of posts in the comments at TOD, one of which showed oil leaki...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Fishing and Quecreek equipment

There has not been a lot of visible progress at the Deepwater site today. As might be anticipated when BP are trying to extract the three s...

Deepwater Oil Spill - TV cameras and Chilean Miners

The fishing expedition to recover the drill pipe (DP) from the Blowout Preventer (BOP) at the top of the Deepwater well is moving somewhat s...

Working thin coal - the coal plow and Hydrominer

In the last couple of years there has been a growing concern about the amount of coal that remains in the productive reserve for the world....