Waterjetting 1d - Not quite that simple!

When I first began the research on the applications of high-pressure water that was be one of the major parts of my professional life I must...

OGPSS - An introduction to Iran

The theme of these posts, over the past eighteen months, has been to look at the leading producer nations that provide crude oil to the worl...

Looking Indian and Red Paint Peoples - additional thoughts

Before moving on to the next period of possible European:Native American interaction, there are a couple of things to add to the narrative t...

The Native American Peoples of the Red Paint/Cemetery Complex/Maritime Archaic/Moorehead Phase and the Maasai

Browsing through Howard Terpening’s “ Tribute to the Plains People ”, his “Passing into Womanhood” caught, and held my eye. Not just from t...

Waterjetting 1c - Volume flow, horsepower and thrust tables

Over the course of my career there is one table that I have used, for one reason or another, just about every week. Most folk will not likel...

Iceland rumbles a bit

This is just a quite arrow to point to the number of quakes above a level 3 that have been happening in Iceland over the last few hours. Ea...

OGPSS - China's energy and a conclusion

Although Energy Policy has not been a significant issue in the current political debate over who should be the next President of the United ...

Waterjetting 1b - Force, Pressure and Flow volume.

This is the second in a series on some of the ways in which high pressure water jets can be used. The series was introduced last week . Ba...

OGPSS - China's coal industry

In this run-up to the election, the American Energy future seems to have faded into the quiet background. Gone are the concerns of past yea...