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Destroying the Grand Canyon for fun and profit

Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:11 PM
Because of the resurgence of nuclear power, uranium mining claims in the western US have skyrocketed from 2,000 in 2001 to over 43,000 last year. Those claims are now encroaching on the Grand Canyon and other western monuments: On public lands within
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Bush spins ethanol, lies about ANWR

Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:20 PM
Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source
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Poll: Where do you think the price of oil will be in one year?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:49 PM
Here's my first poll: Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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$200 a barrel coming soon?

Monday, April 28, 2008 10:45 PM
I'm not one to automatically trust the word of any OPEC minister, but this quote from Chakib Khelil, Algeria's energy minister, bears some consideration : Opec's president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the
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Melting from pole to pole

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:30 PM
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a region of ice in Antarctica roughly the size of Connecticut, and it is collapsing much faster than scientists had predicted. In 1993, the British Antarctic Survey issued a forecast that the shelf would collapse within 30 years;
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Is it irony, or is it karma?

Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42 PM
I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode : Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a
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Cargo ships to be propelled by kites

Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:42 PM
This is very cool : One of the first large cargo ships in 100 years to cross the Atlantic with the help of the wind will set off from European shores this month on a voyage which is due to make maritime history. When the 10,000-tonne Beluga Skysail is
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Applying the brakes, one way or another

Monday, November 19, 2007 10:28 PM
Within the coming years, one (or both) of the following phenomena will force us to apply the brakes to our reckless production of carbon dioxide and our insane habit of burning hydrocarbons for fuel: 1) Peak oil will limit the amount of hydrocarbons we
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Oil industry wastes $40 billion per year by "flaring" gas

Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:10 AM
This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of "flaring" natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million
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London mayor and Hugo Chavez strike an interesting deal; media bias shows clearly

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:25 PM
London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a deal today with some interesting terms. Venezuela has agreed to sell a certain quantity of oil to the UK at a 20 percent discount, as long as it's used only for London's public
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Alarming forecasts on oil prices

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:00 PM
I'm sure everyone's looking forward to $100 for a barrel of oil. Shortly thereafter, we might think of $100 as a bargain once it hits $200. According to oil industry analysts, this could happen within the next year. These are not the prognostications
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Turning car exhaust into diesel

Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:44 AM
This is fascinating : The world's richest corporations and finest minds spend billions trying to solve the problem of carbon emissions, but three fishing buddies in North Wales believe they have cracked it. They have developed a box which they say can
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Venezuela and Iran team up

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:40 PM
Well, this certainly isn't a good sign : Venezuela and Iran are forging closer oil ties in hopes of reducing their dependence on the United States, inking a $4 billion deal to develop a block of the lucrative Orinoco Reserve in Venezuela. According to
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Hookers, oil, and empire

Monday, July 09, 2007 10:50 PM
Three quick notes: 1) General Petraeus has the gall to compare the US occupation of Iraq to the British struggle against the IRA. He said that "fighting the insurgency is a 'long term endeavour' which could take decades ." He then said, Northern Ireland,
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Some cold water on nuclear

Monday, July 09, 2007 6:05 PM
This Bloomberg article (via Andrew Eder ) goes into quite a bit of detail about TVA's current and past nuclear program. This part caught my eye (although I don't know how these estimates were derived): Investment banking consultant Gary L. Hunt, president
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Good news and bad news on the energy front

Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:19 PM
Two fights in Congress over energy policy have produced good news and bad news. First, the good news : Senators late Thursday rejected a proposal to allow limited natural gas development in waters off the mid-Atlantic coast despite a long-standing drilling
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Living off the grid in Oregon

Monday, May 28, 2007 9:40 PM
An entire town in Oregon lives totally off the electric grid, generating almost all of their electricity through solar photovoltaic panels. They like it : In the 250-home Oregon community of Three Rivers, everyone gets most of their power from solar panels
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NYT misrepresents wind energy

Sunday, May 06, 2007 12:24 PM
An article in Friday's New York Times by Matthew Wald bears the provocative title, "Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests." This is, of course, completely ridiculous. The article is about a report by the National Academy of Sciences on
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Factoid about solar energy

Friday, May 04, 2007 3:02 PM
Last evening, one of those strange questions came up that I'll spend an inordinate amount of time researching, just out of curiosity. The question was this: If we tried to provide all the electricity the United States needs using only photovoltaic solar
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Drilling for oil off Virginia's pristine coast

Saturday, April 28, 2007 4:06 PM
The US Dept. of Interior is about to propose drilling for oil and gas in three offshore locations: the deepwater portions of the Gulf of Mexico, Bristol Bay in western Alaska, and Virginia's Atlantic coast. Although offshore drilling carries significant
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