Articles from August 2010

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Date Title Author Comments
08/31/2010 A Summary of Adam Brandt's "Review of Mathematical Models of Future Oil Supply" Gail the Actuary 165
08/31/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Another Weather Pause - and Open Thread Heading Out 370
08/31/2010 Drumbeat: August 31, 2010 Leanan 60
08/30/2010 Where can I find up-to-date rigorous peak oil projections? Gail the Actuary 138
08/30/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - A Slight Pause While We Wait - and Open Thread Heading Out 188
08/30/2010 Drumbeat: August 30, 2010 Leanan 92
08/29/2010 Tech Talk: Working Thin Coal - the Coal Plow and Hydrominer Heading Out 12
08/29/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Stopping the Fish - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 285
08/29/2010 Campfire Open Thread - What I Learned This Week nate hagens 234
08/29/2010 Drumbeat: August 29, 2010 Leanan 67
08/28/2010 How limited global oil supply may affect climate change policies Gail the Actuary 452
08/28/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Stopping the Fish - and Open Thread Heading Out 186
08/28/2010 Drumbeat: August 28, 2010 Leanan 182
08/27/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Hydrates and San Jose Mine Concerns - and Open Thread Heading Out 259
08/27/2010 Drumbeat: August 27, 2010 Leanan 93
08/26/2010 Things Fall Apart: Complexity, Supply Chains, Infrastructure & Collapse Revisited Rembrandt 109
08/26/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Recovering Pipe - and Open Thread Heading Out 194
08/26/2010 Drumbeat: August 26, 2010 Leanan 65
08/25/2010 Biodiesel, Biochar & Biodiversity in Costa Rica -- An Example of Small-Scale, Locally-Appropriate Action jeffvail 23
08/25/2010 Lebanon: RAMSES runs! Ugo Bardi 51
08/25/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - More Questions than Answers - and Open Thread Heading Out 253
08/25/2010 Drumbeat: August 25, 2010 Leanan 139
08/24/2010 Save it for the Combine Jason Bradford 286
08/24/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Fishing and Quecreek Equipment - and Open Thread Heading Out 312
08/24/2010 Drumbeat: August 24, 2010 Leanan 123
08/23/2010 Peak Oil Workhorse Matt Simmons: 1943-2010 Gail the Actuary 31
08/23/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - TV Cameras and Chileans Miners - and Open Thread Heading Out 324
08/23/2010 Drumbeat: August 23, 2010 Leanan 102
08/22/2010 Tech Talk: Longwall Mining with Shearers Heading Out 12
08/22/2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon - BP Begins "Fishing Operation" - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 446
08/22/2010 Can we solve two problems at once - unemployment and preparing for power down? Gail the Actuary 301
08/22/2010 Drumbeat: August 22, 2010 Leanan 57
08/21/2010 This Week in Petroleum (TWIP) - August 18 Heading Out 13
08/21/2010 Drumbeat: August 21, 2010 Leanan 82
08/21/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Fishing Resumes - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 229
08/20/2010 Oilwatch Monthly August 2010 Rembrandt 146
08/20/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Flushing and Fishing - and Open Thread Heading Out 323
08/20/2010 Drumbeat: August 20, 2010 Leanan 119
08/19/2010 Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy Gail the Actuary 324
08/19/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Small Steps of Progess - and Open Thread Heading Out 293
08/19/2010 Drumbeat: August 19, 2010 Leanan 218
08/18/2010 Dick Smith's Wilberforce Award - Endless Growth is Not Sustainable Phil Hart 99
08/18/2010 OPEC's Spare Crude Oil Capacity - Will it Disappear by the End of 2011? Rune Likvern 88
08/18/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Future Precautions - and Open Thread Heading Out 285
08/18/2010 Drumbeat: August 18, 2010 Leanan 146
08/17/2010 The Ascent of Middle East Food and Energy Demand Gail the Actuary 73
08/17/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Two Options - and Open Thread Heading Out 348
08/17/2010 Drumbeat: August 17, 2010 Leanan 167
08/16/2010 The Failure of Networked Systems: The Repercussions of Systematic Risk Revisited aeldric 110
08/16/2010 Drumbeat: August 16, 2010 Leanan 123
08/16/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Continuing to Wait - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 263
08/15/2010 Tech Talk: Longwall Mining - Using Hydraulics to Modernize Mines Heading Out 32
08/15/2010 What's Enough? - Open thread Gail the Actuary 318
08/15/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Australian Oil Spill - and Open Thread Phil Hart 261
08/15/2010 Drumbeat: August 15, 2010 Leanan 129
08/14/2010 The Enbridge Michigan Pipeline Oil Spill - Some Clues as to What May Have Happened Gail the Actuary 52
08/14/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - How to Deal with a Dead Well - and Open Thread Heading Out 309
08/14/2010 Drumbeat: August 14, 2010 Leanan 103
08/13/2010 This Week in Petroleum (TWIP) for August 11th Heading Out 91
08/13/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Is the Well Dead Already? - and Open Thread Heading Out 427
08/13/2010 Drumbeat: August 13, 2010 Leanan 161
08/12/2010 Embodied Energy: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Urban Energy Use Gail the Actuary 132
08/12/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Relief Well Intersection Version 2 - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 312
08/12/2010 Drumbeat: August 12, 2010 Leanan 181
08/11/2010 Book Review - Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects Rembrandt 271
08/11/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Relief Well Intersection Version 2 - and Open Thread Heading Out 368
08/11/2010 Drumbeat: August 11, 2010 Leanan 158
08/10/2010 Matt Simmons, Author of "Twilight in the Desert" and Peak Oil Speaker, Dies at Age 67 Gail the Actuary 103
08/10/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Details of the Cement Kill - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 255
08/10/2010 Drumbeat: August 10, 2010 Leanan 183
08/09/2010 New Perspectives on the Energy Return on (Energy) Investment (EROI) of Corn Ethanol: Part 2 of 2 David Murphy 182
08/09/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Details of the Cement Kill - and Open Thread Heading Out 467
08/09/2010 Drumbeat: August 9, 2010 Leanan 343
08/08/2010 Tech Talk: Controlling the Roof - More on Longwall Coal Technology Heading Out 9
08/08/2010 Can the Wealthy Have A Separate Peace? - Revisited Gail the Actuary 192
08/08/2010 Drumbeat: August 8, 2010 Leanan 74
08/08/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The World Continues Drilling - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 370
08/07/2010 The Chinese Coal Monster - a comment from Jean Laherrere Euan Mearns 42
08/07/2010 Drumbeat: August 7, 2010 Leanan 121
08/07/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Waiting for the Cement to Set - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 444
08/06/2010 The US Electric Grid: Will it be Our Undoing? - Revisited Gail the Actuary 195
08/06/2010 Drumbeat: August 6, 2010 Leanan 122
08/06/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Waiting for the Cement to Set - and Open Thread Heading Out 398
08/05/2010 Peak Oil: How Supply Crunch Can Lead to Lower Prices (for a while!) Gail the Actuary 156
08/05/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Cementing the Well - and Open Thread Heading Out 363
08/05/2010 Drumbeat: August 5, 2010 Leanan 156
08/04/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Tests End and the Kill Begins, Well Reaches Static Condition - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 137
08/04/2010 Peak Capital - Our Ultimate Limit? Ugo Bardi 127
08/04/2010 Drumbeat: August 4, 2010 Leanan 160
08/04/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Tests End and the Kill Begins, Well Reaches Static Condition - and Open Thread Heading Out 399
08/03/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Start of the Static Kill - and Open Thread 2 Heading Out 175
08/03/2010 Europe and Natural Gas - Are Tough Choices Ahead? Rune Likvern 56
08/03/2010 Drumbeat: August 3, 2010 Leanan 150
08/03/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Start of the Static Kill - and Open Thread Heading Out 386
08/02/2010 Does Unlimited Liability for Offshore Oil Drilling Make Sense? Gail the Actuary 178
08/02/2010 BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Static Kill to Begin Shortly - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 386
08/02/2010 Drumbeat: August 2, 2010 Leanan 142
08/01/2010 Tech Talk: Pre-mechanized longwall mining of coal Heading Out 8
08/01/2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon - Oil to Stay Put; Dispersant Questions - and Open Thread Gail the Actuary 282
08/01/2010 What do we do about unemployment? Gail the Actuary 550
08/01/2010 Drumbeat: August 1, 2010 Leanan 91