Articles from May 2010

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Date Title Author Comments
05/31/2010 Nuking The Oil Slick? Big Gav 150
05/31/2010 The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - Why Top Kill May Have Failed and Monday Open Thread 2 Heading Out 335
05/31/2010 The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - Why Top Kill May Have Failed and Monday Open Thread Heading Out 361
05/31/2010 Changing society's behavior to use less oil and other resources Gail the Actuary 245
05/31/2010 Drumbeat: May 31, 2010 Gail the Actuary 166
05/30/2010 The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - Why Top Kill May Have Failed and Tonight's Open Thread Heading Out 404
05/30/2010 Drumbeat: May 30, 2010 Gail the Actuary 106
05/30/2010 The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - LMRP Attempt Continued and Sunday's Open Thread Gail the Actuary 389
05/29/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - The LMRP Attempt, the "Press Conference," and a Live Open Thread Gail the Actuary 367
05/29/2010 Gulf Oil Spill: With so many oil resources, can't we just drill somewhere else? Gail the Actuary 171
05/29/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Incremental Progress at Best - Varying the Junk Mix and Cutting the Flow --also Live Comment Thread Heading Out 193
05/29/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Deciphering The New Activity (Top Kill, Junk Shot, Etc.), Watching the Flows, and a Live Comment Thread Heading Out 417
05/29/2010 Drumbeat: May 29, 2010 Gail the Actuary 119
05/28/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Why Top Kill Starts and Stops, Watching the Flows, and a Live Comment Thread Heading Out 344
05/28/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Top Kill Update, Restarting the Mud, and Comment Thread Heading Out 344
05/28/2010 Drumbeat: May 28, 2010 Gail the Actuary 102
05/27/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Top Kill "Stage 2," Junk Shots, and Live Comment Thread 2 Heading Out 351
05/27/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Top Kill "Stage 2," Junk Shots, and Live Comment Thread Heading Out 363
05/27/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - A Comparison of Flows, A Little Optimism, and a Live Comment Thread Heading Out 354
05/27/2010 Ten Ways to Cut Oil Use Gail the Actuary 208
05/27/2010 Drumbeat: May 27, 2010 Gail the Actuary 146
05/26/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Permissions and Concerns about Top Kill Heading Out 88
05/26/2010 Live Comment Thread with Top Kill Video Prof. Goose 348
05/26/2010 Deep Water Spill - Waiting for Top Kill Heading Out 257
05/26/2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout: This is What the End of the Oil Age Looks Like Gail the Actuary 149
05/26/2010 Drumbeat: May 26, 2010 Gail the Actuary 103
05/26/2010 Live comment thread on the video link from the ROV monitoring the damaged riser Prof. Goose 95
05/25/2010 The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - the Top Kill Attempt Heading Out 342
05/25/2010 Drumbeat: May 25, 2010 Gail the Actuary 236
05/24/2010 A Photographic Tour of a Natural Gas Well in the Marcellus Shale David Murphy 65
05/24/2010 The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill, barriers, flow rates, and top kill Heading Out 228
05/23/2010 Drumbeat: May 24, 2010 Gail the Actuary 101
05/23/2010 Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill Open Thread - Dispersants, Flow Rate Technical Team, and other topics Gail the Actuary 292
05/23/2010 Tech Talk: Making Room for the Pony - Concrete and Steel Support of Tunnels Heading Out 12
05/23/2010 Where should we be putting our mitigation priorities? Gail the Actuary 254
05/23/2010 Drumbeat: May 23, 2010 Leanan 95
05/22/2010 The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - Was Complexity a Factor? Gail the Actuary 143
05/22/2010 Drumbeat: May 22, 2010 Leanan 121
05/21/2010 What caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster? aeberman 251
05/21/2010 The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - The EPA Changes its Mind Heading Out 120
05/21/2010 Drumbeat: May 21, 2010 Leanan 90
05/20/2010 The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill, sheen, other oil layers, and RIT flows Heading Out 291
05/20/2010 Further Implications of the Ethanol Tariff Issue Robert Rapier 5
05/20/2010 Drumbeat: May 20, 2010 Leanan 134
05/20/2010 Household Dry Food Cooking, Part 2 Debbie Cook 56
05/19/2010 The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range Gail the Actuary 401
05/19/2010 The Gulf oil spill and oil collection - a Blogger's Conference Heading Out 267
05/19/2010 Drumbeat: May 19, 2010 Leanan 143
05/18/2010 Tar Balls found in Florida Keys; Tuesday Conference Call with NOAA Regarding possibility of oil entering Loop Current Gail the Actuary 144
05/18/2010 Oilwatch Monthly May 2010 Rembrandt 31
05/18/2010 The Gulf oil spill, recovery, and cleanup - Monday's Press Conference Heading Out 120
05/18/2010 BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill at the Oil Drum Overview Gail the Actuary 1
05/18/2010 Drumbeat: May 18, 2010 Leanan 99
05/17/2010 Tapping into the Riser in the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Heading Out 267
05/17/2010 Jeremy Jackson talks about How We Wrecked the Ocean Gail the Actuary 103
05/17/2010 Drumbeat: May 17, 2010 Leanan 134
05/16/2010 Tech talk: Coal mining - the transition to pit ponies Heading Out 30
05/16/2010 Threading the needle at the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill site Heading Out 331
05/16/2010 The Time has Arrived to do Epic Shit Debbie Cook 229
05/16/2010 Drumbeat: May 16, 2010 Leanan 61
05/15/2010 Summer Gasoline is Here Again Robert Rapier 13
05/15/2010 Pipe Insertion into the Riser of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Heading Out 275
05/15/2010 Drumbeat: May 15, 2010 Leanan 98
05/14/2010 Understanding the Ethanol Tariff Issue Robert Rapier 21
05/14/2010 Is 70,000 barrels a day a possibility for the oil spill? Gail the Actuary 464
05/14/2010 Drumbeat: May 14, 2010 Leanan 220
05/13/2010 Congressional Testimony and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Heading Out 138
05/13/2010 Extreme Human-Powered Delivery JoulesBurn 86
05/13/2010 Drumbeat: May 13, 2010 Leanan 141
05/12/2010 Crystals, the Gulf of Mexico Blowout, and the new 'Top Hat' Dome Heading Out 194
05/12/2010 BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill at the Oil Drum Overview - Especially for New Readers Gail the Actuary
05/12/2010 Drumbeat: May 12, 2010 Leanan 201
05/11/2010 China's coal bubble...and how it will deflate U.S. efforts to develop "clean coal" Gail the Actuary 206
05/11/2010 Oil Spill Hearings Begin - 'Nitrogen Cement' and 'Failure to Place Cement Plug' Testimony Likely Gail the Actuary 196
05/11/2010 Drumbeat: May 11, 2010 Leanan 115
05/11/2010 Oil Spill Hearings Begin Tuesday - 'Nitrogen Cement' and 'Failure to Place Cement Plug' Testimony Likely Gail the Actuary
05/10/2010 The API Teleconference on the Oil Spill plus Some More Recent News Items Heading Out 191
05/10/2010 Drumbeat: May 10, 2010 Leanan 220
05/09/2010 Oil Spill - New Thread - May 9 Gail the Actuary 275
05/09/2010 Tech Talk: Manually mining coal underground Heading Out 21
05/09/2010 Oil and Larkspur--Personal Reactions to a Disruptive Event Jason Bradford 79
05/09/2010 Drumbeat: May 9, 2010 Leanan 141
05/09/2010 BP Attempt to Cover Oil Spill "Didn't Work" - Open Thread nate hagens 247
05/08/2010 Oil Spill Insights from a Retired Manager of an Offshore Underwater Service Company Gail the Actuary 149
05/08/2010 Drumbeat: May 8, 2010 Leanan 121
05/07/2010 What connections are there between debt, oil prices, and personal income? Gail the Actuary 127
05/07/2010 Heading Out's Oil Spill Update - Including Oil Spill Discussion - May 7 Heading Out 155
05/07/2010 Drumbeat: May 7, 2010 Leanan 136
05/06/2010 Possible Responses to Peak Oil: Some Lessons from the Past Gail the Actuary 280
05/06/2010 Oil Spill Discussion - May 6 Gail the Actuary 141
05/06/2010 Drumbeat: May 6, 2010 Leanan 151
05/05/2010 Finding Healthy Addictions Jason Bradford 66
05/05/2010 John Hofmeister: Our Energy Predicament Viewed from an Oil Company's Perspective Gail the Actuary 176
05/05/2010 Drumbeat: May 5, 2010 Leanan 180
05/04/2010 Comments on Some Recent Oil Spill News Items, Including the Dome Heading Out 226
05/04/2010 Industry Leaders Seem to be Showing More Openness to Energy Descent Issues Gail the Actuary 135
05/04/2010 Drumbeat: May 4, 2010 Leanan 78
05/03/2010 Tech Talk: Progress on the Gulf oil leak and comments on cementing pipes and well completion Heading Out 157
05/03/2010 BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill at the Oil Drum Overview - Especially for New Readers - Discussion Gail the Actuary 104
05/03/2010 Drumbeat: May 3, 2010 Leanan 174
05/02/2010 Tech Talk: Revisiting Oil Well Pressures and Blowout Preventers after BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Heading Out 174
05/02/2010 The Promise of Decentralization, Localization, and Scale-Free Self-Sufficiency jeffvail 133
05/02/2010 Drumbeat: May 2, 2010 Leanan 151
05/01/2010 Wind's latest problem: it . . . makes power too cheap Jerome a Paris 324
05/01/2010 Drumbeat: May 1, 2010 Leanan 205