Traveller's Rest

Because of a minor technical problem, posting will resume after the weekend with the normal weekend posts going up during next week.

Deepwater Oil Spill - windows can be short, and a digression

The windows that allow significant work on the oil spill in the Gulf are likely to become rarer and more valuable opportunities as the hurri...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the hundredth day

Admiral Allen held a press conference in the Gulf region (rather than recent ones held in Washington), in which he noted that the news of t...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Clearing the Relief Well to restart

The work in the Gulf that is moving toward a more permanent solution to the leaking well beyond the current cap on the well is moving forwar...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Restarting Progress

BP does not seem to have gone back to the daily briefings, let alone the twice-a-day ones that were being issued just a couple of weeks ago....

Deepwater Oil Spill - After the storm

The “Bonnie” storm has passed, and the different vessels are not only returned to the site, but are already making progress in returning to ...

Pre-mechanized longwall mining

In the last post on this subject, I wrote about how miners were able to remove almost all the coal from a section, either by leaving small ...

Colorado temperatures using TOBS

Back in March I first looked at the temperature data for Colorado, comparing the GIS station data with that generated with the homogenized ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Tropical Storm Bonnie -1a

I have not been over to the ROV sites for a while, since the rigs are preparing to close, but (h/t to JamesRWhite ) I have to say that if I ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Tropical Storm Bonnie -1

With all activities shutting down around the Deepwater well due to the projected path of Tropical Storm Bonnie, as it has now become, it is ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - There will now be a slight intermission (pause)

The approaching tropic system that has been mentioned in earlier posts has now not only caught the attention of the folks at the Deepwater w...

Deepwater Oil Spill - time is not our friend

There is a certain frustration in hearing some of the officials who act as spokesmen for the management team handling the spill from the Dee...

Deepwater Oil Spill - bubble, bubble oil and trouble

UPDATE on this post. Although there has been some additional discussion, and the test has been allowed to run another 24-hours, not much e...

Deepwater Oil Spill - should oil flow restart?

At the end of last week BP began the testing of the Deepwater well cap, closing all the valves and stopping the flow of oil and natural ga...

The Earliest Longwall - coal mining before the 1830's

Earlier I have written about the large amount of coal that was often left to hold the roof up while miners excavated the coal from rooms off...