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...

OGPSS - Venezuela after Hugo Chavez

With the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the future production, and exports of Venezuelan crude are gaining a little new atten...

Waterjetting 6d - Plywood and Pork, and jet effectiveness

In the last two posts I have tried to show that there is a benefit to running an occasional calibration test on equipment, to ensure that it...

The Iditarod is running

For those who follow these things, this year's Iditarod race has started . Alaskan papers are best for following the race.

Transient publicity

James Stafford was kind enough to interview me for his site at Oilprice.com and the interview has been published at a number of other sites....