Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: American Petroleum Institute, kerogen, oil shale, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell
Hey, with “the right policies,” we can make this resource available to Royal Dutch Shell. “Right policies” would include taxpayer subsidies and environmental de-regulation. Then they can sell 100k bpd or so. Never mind that it could very well take over 100k bpd equivalent to make 100k bpd of oil out of Colorado kerogen. And there is no water available to do anything, let alone process “oil shale.” But with the “right policies” … anything is possible.
Note — “oil shale” is not “shale oil.” “Oil shale” is not oil and usually not shale either.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: accounting control fraud, Bill Black, Bush, control fraud, Holder, kleptocracy, mortgage fraud, Obama, oligarchy, S & L crisis, William Black
“Neither administration has prosecuted any elite CEO for the epidemic of mortgage fraud that drove the ongoing crisis. This contrasts with over 1,000 elite felony convictions arising from the S&L debacle. The ongoing crisis caused losses more than 70 times greater than the S&L debacle and the amount of elite fraud driving this crisis is also vastly greater than during the S&L debacle. Bank CEOs leading “accounting control frauds” now do so with impunity from the criminal laws. They become wealthy through fraud and even if they are sued civilly they almost invariably walk away wealthy with the proceeds of their frauds.”
http://www.neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/01/holder-obamas-propaganda-is-belied-by.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Australia, China, lanthanum, lanthanum oxide, Lynas, Malaysia, rare earth, refinery waste, refining metals
…and create all kinds of interesting by-products.
Filed under: maps | Tags: Columbia University, energy, energy consumption, energy map, energy use, interactive energy map, New York City, therms
Block-by-block, very cool. Some areas are grayed out due to lack of information.
http://modi.mech.columbia.edu/nycenergy/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, nuclear power, reactor shutdown, San Onofre nuclear plant
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bloomberg, congestion pricing, congestion pricing NYC, Komanoff, New York City, NYC taxis, taxi medallions
From http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/01/20/more-taxis-mean-more-traffic/
Filed under: maps | Tags: Byron, Byron nuclear plant, Chicago, Exelon, reactor, tritium
Exelon sounds like a really evil cartoon villain c. 1985.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Byron nuclear plant, Exelon, NRC, power failure, tritium
Oh.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: BP, Chevron, EIA, Exxon, Exxonmobil, Koch Industries, Marathon, oil refineries in the US, Premcor, refineries, refinery throughput, Suncor, Sunoco, Tesoro, US refineries, Valero
Top U.S. Refineries – Energy Information Administration. Energy Rankings.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cannondale, King James, LeBron James, Miami Heat, traffic congestion
“The traffic,” James said to the media after scoring a game-high 35 points in the 97-93 win over the Bulls. “You guys drove here? You guys are crazy.”
James said the trip on his Cannondale, which reads “King James,” took about 40 minutes. He said it’s not the first time he’s used pedal power to get to a game.
via LeBron rides bike to game vs. Bulls.
LeBron LeBike-commutes! In freaking Miami, FLA. Today’s Most Valuable Commuter Award goes to LeBron James.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: China, Darfur, peak oil, South Sudan, South Sudan oil production, Sudan, Sudan map, Sudan oil production
South Sudan became a thing in 2011. Much dispute. Oil exports now held up, China under pressure.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ', China, energy, energy production, OECD, oil production, oil supply, South Sudan, Sudan
Graph from IEA (pdf):
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: frac, frack, fracking, No Fracking Way, protest, Tour Down Under
Now see if I didn’t just describe this here video.
Not too often that we run across something with both fracking and bike content.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, energy, gasoline consumption, gasoline demand, gasoline prices, Magic Land, oil demand, refineries, refinery closings, USA Today, WTI
We live in Magic Land.
Refinery closings could push gasoline prices back to $4 – USATODAY.com.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Carrizo Springs, Eagle Ford, energy, energy production, fracking, fracking and water, hydraulic fracturing, Natural gas, shale gas, shale oil, shale plays, Texas Railroad Commission, tight gas, tight oil, WSJ
via http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009930222847246.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crude oil prices, Cushing, EIA, feedstock, refineries, refinery, refinery acquisition costs, This Week in Petroleum, US refineries, WTI
The cost of the raw material varies greatly around the country. This is the featured chart on EIA’s This Week in Petroleum.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Eagle Ford, frack, fracking, Texas Railroad Commission, water consumption
According to http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114624&hmpn=1
But check the math. The figures below come from the article.
— 540,000 acre feet in the aquifer when the fracking began.
— 30,000 acre feet per year used by fracking at peak demand.
— fracking supposedly accounts for only 6% of total aquifer usage. Agriculture takes 65%.
This implies that the entire aquifer would be consumed within a few years.
Even if the frack water amounted to 25% of water usage, the aquifer would be gone in under five years. I have seen claims of up to 40% frack water usage in S. Texas — if that’s true, and the other figures are true, the aquifer would be gone in seven or eight years.
In any case, something’s not adding up here.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: global warming, minimum temperatures, temperature map, USDA, weather history
A map from USDA’s Weekly Weather and Crop Report (pdf).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: active commuting, childhood obesity, Columbia, patterns of use, South Carolina
It’s changed a lot over the years. For the worse. A 2005 study found that only 5% of kids in Columbia, South Carolina commuted to school by walking or biking.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 