The fallout from Irene

The storm (as it then was) may have passed us by to the West, but the consequences in wind, rain and later flood damage continue to make it ...

Of Hurricanes, Oxen, Maple Syrup and Reverse Osmosis

While I do not wish to appear alarmist, I can’t help but note the quote in the Guardian about the Hurricane, in whose path I currently sit....

Cellulosic Ethanol and Jatropha, too much too soon

It would seem, despite the inability of the cellulosic ethanol industry to produce an economically viable product to date, that it remains t...

OGPSS - The coming problems for the Alaskan pipeline

The original Prudhoe is a small village, with a medieval castle , on the south bank of the Tyne, in the north-east of England. It lies in a ...

New Jersey combined temperatures

Crossing from Delaware into New Jersey as I come toward the end of the data acquisition part of the project I started last year looking ...

OGPSS - The oil and gas of Southern Alaska

Before it was American, Russian visitors had already noted the presence of oil seeps in Alaska, although they had not done anything about i...

Delaware combined temperatures

The last post in this series looked at the temperatures for Maryland and so, moving up along the coast, the next stop is Delaware. Delaware...

OGPSS - North Dakota and the Bakken shale

Nick has pointed out that the chart I used last time , in writing of the production in the deep waters of the Gulf is out of date. North D...