Energy Discussions

Oh yes, just what it says: cats are vocal maestros and use their feline ways to lure their prey to their doom. In this article, we see the jungle kitties mimicking the sounds of small rodents and monkeys to lure them out of safety and into their waiting, hungry jaws. Cool! CHOMP! This is another confirmation of the potency of natu...

Two-Faced Obama: Killing Jobs while proclaiming Recovery Summer We are in dire straits with respect to domestic energy use versus domestic production. Local production would do much for both job and energy security, but Obama and Fedzilla generally have made sure we do nothing about either. The disastrous Gulf Gusher should have b...

Ion power? Forget it, Scotty, the New NASA is going for something even more fictional than dilithium crystals: the Koranic Drive. Jetsons in burkah. No more American spaceflight, just the flights of fantasy and propaganda regarding Musim "contributions" to science and technology. The New Mission was related in an Al-Jazeer...

Be wary of actions taken under cloak, pieces slipped by not only in the dark of night, but also in the dim shadows of day. Skulking by as distraction fills our minds eye. The Japanese struck Pearl on a Sunday morning. The IMO did so on the weekend of this continents most important holidays, Canada's Dominion Day and the annivers...

A lot of people get their energy from eating shrimp, believe it or not, especially in the US. We eat it rarely, and only as Scampi (yum!), but the industry is enormous and the Gulf Gusher is shrinking the local business to, well, shrimps compared to Asian and South American businesses. According to this article, a consequence of th...

I found an absolutely magnificent web site today; http://www.theoildrum.com They posted the article below. It is, hands down, THE best article I have read to date, concerning 1) what went wrong and, 2) the challenges ahead. It is a damn scary scenario IF, as the author himself states, he is correct. http://www.theoildrum.com...

Nationalization at the hands of Hugo Chavez means theft, pretty much, just as it usually does wherever governments implement it unilaterally. The target this time is lowly Helmerich and Payne, who audaciously idled their rigs when Venezuela stopped paying them for work done. The cheek of that firm! Obama wishes he could do what El ...

Eco-maniacs Run Wild: Threaten Federal Judge New Orleans--While many Americans undoubtedly agree with the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman to overturn the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep water drilling, not everyone is happy. In fact, the Judge is now receiving death threats in the aftermath of...