Posted 20 hours ago

Jonathan Callahan, a PhD chemist who has worked for almost 20 years as a data analysis/data visualization expert for various Federal science agencies (NOAA, NASA, EPA), has created a new data browser,

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Posted 20 hours ago

Brazil subsalt output to see early peak - minister SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's subsalt oilproduction could shoot up in 2013 and 2014 before leveling offto match production in other off- and onshor

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Posted 1 day ago

How do we maintain phosphorous and potassium fertility, as rock-based supplements become in shorter supply, and fossil fuels for mining and transportation become less available? A PennState Universit

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China in great leap forward for gas(Reuters) - China's burgeoning gas demand has been a key driver for a swathe of projects to supply the clean-burning fuel -- but the speed at which it will shift a

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Posted 2 days ago

I just finished reading a book called Anatomy of the Bear where the point was made that rising new car sales are a leading indicator for the end of recession. No wonder then that many OECD governments

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Posted 2 days ago

This is a guest post by Chris Nelder from his blog GetRealList.When oil crossed $120 a barrel for the first time in May 2008, oil cornucopians knew they were in trouble... Prices had quadrupled in jus

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The Joint Operating Environment on the Energy CrisisThe U.S. Joint Forces Command published The Joint Operating Environment report which seeks to provide the Joint Force an intellectual

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Posted 3 days ago

The following multi-part series is taken from a paper that my colleagues and I published last year in the free, on-line journal Energies. You may access the entire PDF here. All references can be foun

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OPEC Expands Oil Rigs Most in Three Years as Quota Promises Prove Illusory (Bloomberg) -- OPEC is increasing oil drilling at the fastest rate in 2 1/2 years, even as production exceeds its quotas by

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Posted 4 days ago

This is part of the continuing series that I have been writing about oil shale. And, while I just digressed in talking about using nuclear devices to break the rock and heat it, the key problems tha

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