Dr Hansen was wrong - let's change the subject

I have pointed out in recent remarks , that if the debate on climate change were being conducted under normal scientific conventions, then t...

Turkmenistan, Nabucco, Azerbaijan and Russian natural gas

Robert Cutler has an interesting article in Gundogar this week in which he asks, concerning the recent articles questioning the size of Tur...

Gasoline demand, August driving and winter weather

Wednesdays are when the TWIP ( This Week in Petroleum ) is issued by the EIA. Today’s cover note deals with the relatively changing prices...

How much natural gas does Turkmenistan have?

The pipeline from Turkmenistan to China is now almost complete , the section running through Turkmenistan, from the Malai field will take t...

Sometimes my predictions turn out to be wrong

Last Thursday I posted the first half of a letter that I wrote to OMNI magazine back in 1979, and in it I made some cost estimates for the ...

Turning an Oil Well and down-hole motors

This is part of the series of technical posts on how to get fossil fuels out of the ground that appear here most Sundays. The last post in t...

Is global warming regional - as in the MWP?

I was looking over Anthony Watts’ web site, and noted a picture that he had posted that shows the large number of stations around the Unit...

A 30-year old opinion on Space Power Systems

Just over 30 years ago there was a young science magazine called Omni . It ran from October 1978 through the fall of 1995. In the first Apr...

Gasoline consumption and today's TWIP

So how far has the recovery progressed? Not being one of the many financial gurus that have been peering over the bull’s entrails for the p...

Dr Chu, Dr Aleklett and the price of oil

There are a number of us who write about the situation in regard to the world supply of liquid fuels, and the future availability of those s...

The other meaning of "Clean Coal", and related mineral preparation

There is a lot of talk about Clean Coal these days. The Federal Government are issuing, though DoE, a significant number of requests for pr...