ASPO Conference - second day after lunch

This is a continuation of a series of reports on the ASPO Conference on Peak Oil that was held in Washington DC this week. I had covered t...

ASPO Conference - second day before lunch

Jim Baldauf , a co-founder of ASPO-USA provided the opening remarks to the Plenary Sessions of the day. He noted that with a coal mine exp...

ASPO Conference - first evening

The initial report on the conference papers was getting a bit long, so I split it into afternoon and evening parts, and the second follows. ...

The ASPO Conference - first afternoon

One of the speakers commented, just at the beginning of the ASPO 2010 Peak Oil Conference , that we would be subject to enough information t...

Of Chilean rescue progress, ASPO meetings and horses

The latest word from Chile is that the second of the three drills working to create an escape shaft for the miners may complete the wider pa...

Pennsylvania TOBS and homogenized temperatures

Moving East from Ohio the next stop along the line is Pennsylvania, which thus becomes today’s topic. Checking with the US Historical Clim...

Ground freezing to stop water flow and strengthen soil

Last time I wrote about grouting of ground in order to either strengthen it, or to stop water flowing through it. Grouting is something tha...