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Andy Grove on Our Electric Future - "Energy independence [viz.] is the wrong goal. Here is a plan Americans can stick to." Perhaps some infrastructure spending1,2 is in order? [etc., &c., cf.] [more inside]
posted by kliuless
on Jul 15, 2008 -
14 comments
Titan find -
The hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn’s moon may contain hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all of Earths known oil and natural gas reserves.
posted by Artw
on Feb 13, 2008 -
54 comments
64-year-old Frank Pringle has figured out a way to extract oil and natural gas out of nearly anything.
posted by divabat
on Jan 11, 2008 -
66 comments
Pederasts of the mind: Of kids, lies and Oil. The American Petroleum Institute partners (in 2004)
with The National Science Teacher's
Association (NSTA) and Scholastic
(see: Scholastic's creedo) to
provide K-12 lesson plans, on energy and oil, which resemble the API's own "Teacher Lesson
Plans" and snappy flash presentations such as Progress
Through Petroleum! which are bundled with fun stuff and
cool facts. The NSTA/API lessons teach all about energy and oil except the global environmental impacts. Didactic bonus from NSTA's oil-friendly curriculum : a surrealistic gallery of oil industry
imagery for kids to download.
Recent glacial melt speedup in Greenland and Antarctica shocks researchers, while the Pentagon games scenarios of Abrupt
Climate Change : Don't worry, says the DOE's Energy Ant - oil's
good, like cows, m'kay
? . Extra credit : Play the Oil and natural Gas
Crossword Puzzle, or the "Industry Lesson Plan Game" (that, and more, inside)
posted by troutfishing
on Oct 5, 2004 -
21 comments
First it was turkey parts, then pig waste and now straw added to the camels back. Thermochemical and biochemical conversion make use of natural processes such as enzymes, heat and pressure to create oil from garbage so one day landfills may become the new domestic oil fields.
posted by stbalbach
on Apr 23, 2004 -
5 comments
Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible. (via Plastic)
posted by BlueTrain
on Jun 4, 2002 -
23 comments