Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: High speed rail, Michigan, passenger trains, trains, transportation
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, EU energy, peak oil, renewable energy, wind energy
Wind energy: over 21% of all new power capacity in 2011 | EU Reporter.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: coal exports, Coos Bay, Coos Bay dredging, dredging, export facility, liquefied natural gas, LNG, natural gas exports, Oregon, Oregon Department of State Lands, Port of Coos Bay
Here ya go Patrick …
The Oregon Department of State Lands recently issued a permit allowing the Port of Coos Bay to conduct the largest dredging project in an estuary in state history. The permit allows for dredging of the first 1.75 million cubic yards (mcy) of a 5.6-mcy project.
The reason for the massive dredging effort: Coos Bay—a town of about 16,000 people on the remote southern Oregon coast—has been targeted for construction of a coal export terminal and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility.
via Coos Bay, Oregon is Coal Industry’s Latest Target | Earthjustice.
Filed under: maps | Tags: energy, Iran, Iranian exports, Iraq-Turkey pipeline, kurdistan, Middle East oil pipelines, oil exports, oil pipelines, oil production, oil trade, Strait of Hormuz
Via the Guardian‘s DataBlog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/feb/06/iran-oil-exports-destination#_
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, Iran, Iran sanctions, oil exports, oil imports, oil shipments
But so far Iran seems to be hanging tough.
http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2905826;s=rollingnews.htm
See also: China Benefits from US Sanctions
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, delamination, San Onofre
It was a week for manufacturing defects. First San Onofre and now this.
Business & Technology | Boeing finds another 787 manufacturing problem | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Filed under: maps | Tags: energy, European natural gas trade, Gazprom, Natural gas, natural gas pipelines, natural gas trade
Lots of people searching for info on natural gas trade movements.
Here is the link to the IEA’s interactive map of the Euro gas trade. If you can figure out the difference between a “transmission line” and a “transit line” there is some good information here.
http://www.iea.org/gtf/index.asp
Also: BP’s map of the nat gas trade
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drone, FAA, predator drone, sell-out, surveillance, unbrained mancraft, unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aircraft
Hopefully these new drone fleets will restore America to its former greatness.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577201170395161202.html
Yeah you read that right — “across the U.S.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: birds of Fukushima, Chernobyl, Fukushima, nuclear meltdown, radiation, radiation kills birds
In the first major study of the impact of the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years, the researchers, from Japan, the US and Denmark, said their analysis of 14 species of bird common to Fukushima and Chernobyl, the Ukrainian city which suffered a similar nuclear meltdown, showed the effect on abundance is worse in the Japanese disaster zone.
The study, published next week in the journal Environmental Pollution, suggests that its findings demonstrate “an immediate negative consequence of radiation for birds during the main breeding season [of] March [to] July”.
via Bird numbers plummet around stricken Fukushima plant – Asia – World – The Independent.
Filed under: maps | Tags: drought, drought in the US, drought monitor, United States rainfall, US drought
Current as of Jan. 31, 2012
More info at US Drought Monitor.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bank of America, Chase, foreclosure fraud, JP Morgan Chase, MERS, MERSCORP, mortgage fraud, robosigning, Schneiderman, Wells Fargo
Is yours a MERS mortgage?
http://www.scribd.com/webber3292/d/80398143-NYS-MERS-Final-Summons-and-Complaint-2-3-12
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 Benchmarking report, active commuting, Alliance for Biking and Walking, Alliance for Free Love and Puppies, Alliance for Toasted Cream Cheese Sandwiches With Meat, Alliance for Walking and Biking, bicycle commuting, bicycling, mode share, transportation, travel
…workers bike-commutes in the American South, according to the Alliance for Biking and Walking. Their 2012 Benchmarking Report based on US Census numbers.
I see that as potential. Lots of it. Just like people (people who generally haven’t thought much about the future of liquid fuels) look at China and see potential for a new dawn of the motoring dream. Bicycle-commuting only has one way to go in much of the US. It’s primarily a cultural thing.
Filed under: maps | Tags: Cube, Dre, Easy E, Mitsubishi, NRC, NWA, San Onofre nuclear generating station, San Onofre nuclear plant, Snoop, steam generators
I swear, I just wanted to know where it is. About 50 miles from South Central LA it turns out.
click to enlarge
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: auto subsidies, Chevy Volt, Dan Lungren, energy efficiency, Ford, GM, Mike Kelley, mpg, peak oil, The Excellence in Energy Efficiency Act
This sets the bar pretty high, but it’s only February. I bet the other congressmen can put their heads together and come up with something even stupider than this.
GOP lawmaker offers $1 billion prize to first 100 mpg gasoline car – The Hill's Floor Action.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, CNOOC, energy, Greenbirch, oil sands, PetroChina, Sinopec, tar sands
Adding to their already massive holdings in Alberta.
Via Rigzone: http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114805&hmpn=1
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Estonia, kerogen, minimal surface disturbance, oil shale, open pit mining
These are the same people who claim “minimal surface disturbance.”
From Google Earth.
And here’s one of those areas from about 100,000 feet:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cost per foot, drilling costs, drilling rigs, EIA, energy, oil production costs, peak oil, production costs
Cost per foot of oil wells, United States. Stunning chart.
From EIA: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E_ERTWO_XWPN_NUS_DF&f=A
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Edison, NRC, San Onofre, San Onofre nuclear generating station
Take note: These utilities always say the same thing and act the same way after any sort of accident. Cagey-ness and half-truths.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Calculated Risk, cash for clunkers, SAAR, seasonal adjusted sales
A dagger in the heart of Peak Demand?
From http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/02/us-light-vehicle-sales-at-1418-million.html
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 