Activity picks up in the Katla calderas

We spent the last four days traveling back home and then taking a day in bringing the place back into respectability after our several-month...

OGPSS - NPRA and ANWR, will they help TAPS?

When I wrote about the Alaskan Pipeline last week I noted that the pipeline was currently flowing at a volume of 495 kbd, after the Alyesk...

Katla reminds us of her presence

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, the effects of the storm that moved through New England after Hurricane Irene moved ashore extended ...

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 ...