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...

OGPSS - Thoughts on the Precautionary Principle

As Michael Brander tells it, in his book on the Scottish Highland Regiments , the Scottish Highlands produced, between 1740 and 1815 men for...

OGPSS - An introduction to Iran

The theme of these posts, over the past eighteen months, has been to look at the leading producer nations that provide crude oil to the worl...

Biofuel in the air and expensive gas on the ground

There are a couple of items in the news today this week that mark the face of a changing world of energy supply. Of the two the increasing ...

Japan - using water cannons and replacing lost power

There are two different time intervals (short and intermediate term) for my comments today on the problems that Japan now faces with their ...

The UK - new Government, new Energy policy?

The new British Government has moved in, and Chris Huhne is the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Charles Hendry is th...

Energy Summit - the second morning

The second day of the Summit began early, but still had all four University Chancellors and the University President in the room at 7:30 am ...

P43. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: I wrote earlier today about the pickup in gasoline demand that EIA had reported, and this was also n...

A Local Town Energy Meeting

Last Friday night I was a part of a panel at a local meeting on energy, put together by the local Democratic party. There were a number of ...

P38. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Until recently if you had tried to talk to me about solar cars, I would have only been able to think...

Making Decisions at a local Utility.

It has become almost routine to glance over at Energy Shortage , and see the same names of places around the world where there is insufficie...