OGPSS - Shell looks to the future

Each year the larger oil production companies provide their views of the future, and I recently reviewed that for ExxonMobil . Shell has no...

OGPSS - update

For a couple of reasons I will not be putting up a post on energy this week, but hope to bring it back next week. And here is the rest of i...

Waterjetting 7d - High-pressure Waterjet cleaning over sandblasting paint

Over the years I have been caught up in “discussions” with several folk about how good high-pressure and ultra-high pressure waterjet stream...

Iceland's quake activity

After a quiet few months, I see that Iceland is seeing a fair number of earthquakes above 3 in a confined region at the North end of the isl...

OGPSS - future natural gas supplies and Cyprus

This post began as a view on the developments in Cyprus, and I am grateful to Gail for the suggestion, and it is my fault that it morphed a ...

Waterjetting 7c - higher pressure washing with power

In the last post, on surface cleaning , I showed how the jet from a fan nozzle spread very quickly once the water left the orifice. With th...

OGPSS - The EXXonMobil future - a review

It is the time of year when the major oil companies issue their predictions for the future, and h/t Art Berman, ExxonMobil just released the...

Waterjetting 7b - more insight into jet structure

In last week’s post I showed some high-speed photographs of the plain water jets that come from the small diamond and sapphire orifices and...

OGPSS - The Pope, Poverty and Power

The new Pope Francis comes from Latin America and has an understanding of the true depths of poverty that is not that common in the United S...

Waterjetting 7a - An intro to jet structure

Once a waterjet starts to move out of the nozzle with any significant speed, as the pump pressure begins to build, it becomes more and more ...

The California Urban Heat Island Effect

Last week Anthony Watts had a post at WUWT in which he talked about a new effort to find out just how much the urban environment was affect...