Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: EPA, leak, pipeline, Platte River, Sand Creek, spill, Suncor, toxic waste, water treatment
Update for pipeline haters: This is apparently a ruptured underground pipeline, and a PR disaster.
Sludge in the N. Platte at Sand Creek confluence ignored. State Health Dept. records tell the story.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: costs of production, frac, France, hydraulic fracturing, production, shale gas, shale oil, tracking
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bikes, Camagnolo, Nishiki, Nishiki Professional
Tall Nishiki, about 30 yrs old. Ready for action on the mean streets.
Correction: This is a Competition model… put the wrong page of the catalog up there.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: accident, bicycle, collision, pedestrian, safety
Tom Vanderbilt
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Bakken Shale, frac, fracking, North Dakota, production, Shale
“A Second Look at Oil Production in the Bakken,” by Heading Out, The Oil Drum, Nov. 27, 2011
The black line on the bottom represents oil price.
Not surprisingly, the predictions are coming back to earth already.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: FARS, fatalities, highway safety, traffic safety
A very cool and probably a useful tool, although the database (FARS), based on police reports, is incomplete. Shows pedestrian, vehicle occupant, cyclist or motorcyclist, w/ age.
…appears to be about 8.
David Murphy, The Energy Return on Investment Threshold. The Oil Drum, Nov. 25, 2011.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19403791
Colorado frac disclosure trumped by ‘trade secrets.’
by Tom Murphy
A Solar-Powered Car? | Do the Math.
..or as the British say, the “maths.”
Here’s the short version: Just get a bike.
PEOPLESLIBRARY.WORDPRESS.COM/2011/11/22/LIBRARY-PRESS-CONFERENCE/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Canada, James Hamilton, pipelines, shale oil, supply, tar sands, WTI
Econbrowser: Implications of the recent rise in oil prices.
The discrepancy between Brent and WTI resulted from the increase in supply in N. America, from shale oil and Canadian tar sands.
Filed under: Uncategorized
…at the end of this interview, makes host uncomfortable.
Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene, Nov. 21, 2011
(May have to click through Bloomberg Surveillance to find the Nov. 21 interviews.)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bill Story, Nevada, planning, transportation
First sentence of the abstract of an article by Gagnon, Hall, Brinker, 1999. Raises spectre of badly declining EROI.
Article added to ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PAGE.
Just a quick reminder … if your barrels require more and more energy to produce, you will need more and more barrels to maintain the same level of net energy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: depletion, OPEC, production, rig count, Saudi Arabia
That’s not an encouraging sign for the “all is well” team. We might expect some lag-time, however. Look at the graph. From 2005-7 the rig count shoots up as production falls. Then production shoots up while the rig count plateaus.
Graph from Stuart Staniford’s blog.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: collision, liability, litigation, pedestrian, responsibility, safety, traffic
Excerpt from NY Post, Nov. 18, 2011.
Yet another pedestrian wakes up from a coma and sues everybody. Litigation is a necessary tool, and it is sabotaged a little bit for everybody who might really need it each time an errant pedestrian walks in front of a bicyclist, gets knocked into a coma, then sues everybody.
Bicyclists, watch for pedestrians, as they have a very hard time watching for you.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 