The Waterjet Meeting in Graz

I was not planning on writing about the Conference that I have been at this week. It deals with the uses of high-pressure (typically about...

The risks of "cap and trade"

When discussions arise about Climate Change, and the possibility that carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases are responsible for the ...

The EPA, sea-level rise and climate change

One of the big questions facing power generating companies has been in regard to the actions that the new Administration would take over th...

Continuing to look at the effects of carbon dioxide

One of the useful things about blogs is that it allows debates to occur in front of the public, and thus to allow us to learn more about the...

T8. Carbon Dioxide and Atmospheric Radiation

One of the factors that is more and more being considered in deciding how the nations of the world will, in the future, provide energy for t...

Of hybrids and algae

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, we are thinking of getting a second hybrid in the family, with thoughts turning toward the Ford Fusio...

Why we really need Cap and Trade

In President Obama’s interview with the NYT he said “We have proposed a cap and trade system, which could create some additional costs, bu...

T6. More on early coal mining

In the last Tech Note I wrote about harvesting coal along the coast, and then the shallow workings that became the first underground mining...

Carbon Dioxide - A Satellite Crash raises a Question

Last week one of the rockets carrying a satellite into orbit failed to shed its fairing (the clamshell nose cone that protects the rocket an...