Articles from July 2010

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Date Title Author Comments
07/31/2010 BP Macondo Blowout - Static Top Kill vs. Bottom Kill: Weighing the Risks aeberman 161
07/31/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Windows Can be Short, a Delay, and a Digression - and Open Thread Heading Out 145
07/31/2010 Drumbeat: July 31, 2010 Leanan 107
07/30/2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon - Static Top Kill vs. Bottom Kill: Weighing the Risks - and Open Thread aeberman 319
07/30/2010 Hollow Men of Economics Gail the Actuary 284
07/30/2010 Drumbeat: July 30, 2010 Leanan 49
07/29/2010 A Critical Examination of Matt Simmons’ Claims on the Deepwater Spill Robert Rapier 429
07/29/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the Hundredth Day - and Open Thread Heading Out 267
07/29/2010 Drumbeat: July 29, 2010 Leanan 129
07/28/2010 Arthur Berman talks about Shale Gas Gail the Actuary 53
07/28/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Clearing the Relief Well to Restart - and Open Thread Heading Out 379
07/28/2010 Drumbeat: July 28, 2010 Leanan 146
07/27/2010 Steve Mohr's Thesis: Projection of World Fossil Fuel Production with Supply and Demand Interactions Gail the Actuary 184
07/27/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Restarting Progress - and Open Thread Heading Out 268
07/27/2010 Drumbeat: July 27, 2010 Leanan 99
07/26/2010 New Perspectives on the Energy Return on (Energy) Investment (EROI) of Corn Ethanol: Part 1 of 2 David Murphy 244
07/26/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - After the Storm - and Open Thread Heading Out 262
07/26/2010 Drumbeat: July 26, 2010 Leanan 173
07/25/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bonnie's Expected Impacts; Industry New Containment Plan - and Open Thread 2 Gail the Actuary 95
07/25/2010 Tech Talk: The Earliest Longwall - Coal Mining before the 1830s Heading Out 16
07/25/2010 The church, the peak, and my old watch Ugo Bardi 195
07/25/2010 Drumbeat: July 25, 2010 Leanan 124
07/25/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bonnie's Expected Impacts; Industry New Containment Plan - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 403
07/24/2010 Revisiting the Fake Fire Brigade Part 2: Biomass - A Panacea? nate hagens 169
07/24/2010 Drumbeat: July 24, 2010 Leanan 99
07/24/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Tropical Depression Bonnie (1a) - and Open Thread Heading Out 347
07/23/2010 Oilwatch Monthly July 2010 Rembrandt 53
07/23/2010 Storm Watch: Bonnie update, understanding wind fields methaz 5
07/23/2010 Drumbeat: July 23, 2010 Leanan 174
07/23/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Tropical Storm Bonnie (1) - and Open Thread Heading Out 400
07/22/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - There will now be a slight intermission (pause) - and open thread 2 Heading Out 293
07/22/2010 Drumbeat: July 22, 2010 Leanan 74
07/22/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - There will now be a slight intermission (pause) - and open thread Heading Out 403
07/21/2010 What do we do without all of the things that are made from petroleum? Gail the Actuary 142
07/21/2010 The 3-part view of power generation Luis de Sousa 174
07/21/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Time is Not Our Friend - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 258
07/21/2010 Drumbeat: July 21, 2010 Leanan 113
07/21/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Time is Not Our Friend - and Open Thread Heading Out 407
07/20/2010 Possibilities for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors? Gail the Actuary 474
07/20/2010 Drumbeat: July 20, 2010 Leanan 153
07/20/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bubble, Bubble Oil and Trouble - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 465
07/20/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bubble, Bubble Oil and Trouble - and Open Thread Heading Out 385
07/20/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - White House Press Secretary Gibbs Confirms "Ruptured Oil Well Leaking from Top" and a Seep Two Miles Away (and Open Thread 3) Heading Out 118
07/19/2010 Lloyd's 'Sustainable Energy Security' White Paper - Some hits; some misses Gail the Actuary 95
07/19/2010 Drumbeat: July 19, 2010 Leanan 113
07/19/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - White House Press Secretary Gibbs Confirms "Ruptured Oil Well Leaking from Top" and a Seep Two Miles Away (and Open Thread 2) Heading Out 426
07/19/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Should the Oil Flow Restart? - and Open Thread Heading Out 410
07/19/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - (Breaking) Anonymous Official Expresses Concern about Seeps and Pressure (and Open Thread 2) Gail the Actuary 154
07/18/2010 The 50-year farm bill Gail the Actuary 124
07/18/2010 Drumbeat: July 18, 2010 Leanan 72
07/18/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - (Breaking) Anonymous Official Expresses Concern about Seeps and Pressure (and Open Thread) Gail the Actuary 372
07/18/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Taking it Day by Day - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 450
07/17/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Test to Continue Another 24 Hours - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 306
07/17/2010 OPEC Going Sideways: Not a Good Time for Oil Importers Gail the Actuary 88
07/17/2010 Drumbeat: July 17, 2010 Leanan 166
07/17/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Results as the Testing Begins - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 295
07/17/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the Testing Continues - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 333
07/16/2010 US Oil Imports: Why it is Difficult to "Fix" the Situation - Looking at a Few Graphs Gail the Actuary 194
07/16/2010 Drumbeat: July 16, 2010 Leanan 117
07/16/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Results as the Testing Begins - and Open Thread Heading Out 473
07/15/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Starting the Testing Program - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 365
07/15/2010 Photoblog: Another offshore wind farm under construction Jerome a Paris 82
07/15/2010 Drumbeat: July 15, 2010 Leanan 151
07/15/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Starting the Testing Program - and Open Thread Heading Out 431
07/14/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Awaiting the Integrity Test - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 292
07/14/2010 Chemical Dispersants and Crude Oil - Efficacy and Toxicity Gail the Actuary 112
07/14/2010 Drumbeat: July 14, 2010 Leanan 228
07/14/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Awaiting the Integrity Test - and Open Thread Heading Out 463
07/13/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the 3-ram stack - and open thread 2 Heading Out 160
07/13/2010 Planning for Europe's Energy Future: My Submission to the Commission's 2010 Consultation on Energy Luis de Sousa 57
07/13/2010 Drumbeat: July 13, 2010 Leanan 86
07/13/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the 3-ram stack - and open thread Heading Out 456
07/12/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Capping Stack Installed - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 128
07/12/2010 The Chinese Coal Monster Euan Mearns 111
07/12/2010 Drumbeat: July 12, 2010 Leanan 145
07/12/2010 Deepwater Oil Spill - Inserting the Transition Spool - and Open Thread Heading Out 456
07/11/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Starting to Change the Cap - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 148
07/11/2010 Dear Candidate - What Will You Do if Growth Is Over...? nate hagens 391
07/11/2010 A Brief Nuclear Update Gail the Actuary 163
07/11/2010 Drumbeat: July 11, 2010 Leanan 52
07/11/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Starting to Change the Cap - and Open Thread Heading Out 411
07/10/2010 Drumbeat: July 10, 2010 Leanan 136
07/10/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Hooking up Helix Producer and Plans for New Cap - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 429
07/09/2010 How Green Is Your Ride? Gail the Actuary 154
07/09/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Adding Mud to the Well - and Open Thread Heading Out 375
07/09/2010 Drumbeat: July 9, 2010 Leanan 170
07/08/2010 Revisiting the 'Fake Fire Brigade' - Part 1 - General Issues nate hagens 532
07/08/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Hitting the Well Annulus - and Open Thread Heading Out 367
07/08/2010 Drumbeat: July 8, 2010 Leanan 77
07/07/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the Last Cement Job? - and Open Thread Heading Out 436
07/07/2010 How Fast will China's Oil Demand Grow? Gail the Actuary 105
07/07/2010 Drumbeat: July 7, 2010 Leanan 98
07/06/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Not Everything is Clearly Successful - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 64
07/06/2010 Land coral: Mediterranean stone architecture - Implications for Sustainability Ugo Bardi 49
07/06/2010 Drumbeat: July 6, 2010 Leanan 101
07/06/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Not Everything is Clearly Successful - and Open Thread Heading Out 389
07/05/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - July 5 - and Open Thread Heading Out 409
07/05/2010 Arrogance and Scientific Rules of Thumb Gail the Actuary 424
07/05/2010 Drumbeat: July 5, 2010 Leanan 205
07/04/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - What Research Reports were Saying - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 411
07/04/2010 Tech Talk: Coal mining - robbing the pillars Heading Out 15
07/04/2010 Moving from Spectator to Participant Debbie Cook 315
07/04/2010 Drumbeat: July 4, 2010 Leanan 155
07/03/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bill Clinton's Views - and Open Thread 2 Gail the Actuary 30
07/03/2010 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil Gail the Actuary 147
07/03/2010 Drumbeat: July 3, 2010 Leanan 69
07/03/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bill Clinton's Views - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 436
07/02/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Some Less Technical Issues - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 377
07/02/2010 Next Generation Biofuels: Five Challenges and Five Positive Notes Robert Rapier 92
07/02/2010 Drumbeat: July 2, 2010 Leanan 130
07/01/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Mud Motors and PDC Bits - and Open Thread Heading Out 406
07/01/2010 The Renewables Gap: The Political Challenge of Affecting a Societal Transition to Renewable Sources of Energy Revisited jeffvail 103
07/01/2010 Population Growth Must Stop - Copy 2 Gail the Actuary 257
07/01/2010 Drumbeat: July 1, 2010 Leanan 74