Lee on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, energy
I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described “oilfield trash” who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready guys who lead the sort of perilous commercial-adventurer lifestyle that one has the mistaken tendency [...]
Lee on Nov 04 2008 | Filed under: Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website)
Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner as suicide missile, but no less remarkable as a demonstration of the the transnational terrorist group’s [...]
MikeR on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
IBDPerhaps we are making progress.
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Lee on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
(photo: Rahim Alizadeh)
In Verdi’s opera Nabucco –the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance– the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order to compel his charity for Jerusalem. Today, after the Georgian invasion, Azerbaijan is a [...]
Lee on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
John McCain, in an interview with Brian Williams on Sarah Palin:
“The facts are funny things. She’s been in elected office longer than Sen. Obama. She’s been the chief executive of the state that provides 20 percent of America’s energy; she has balanced budgets; she has had executive experience as governor, as mayor, [...]
Lee on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
I cited Victor Davis Hanson’s NRO post earlier in an easy defense of Palin, but there’s another point therein worth mention: Palin as agent of change for McCain, personally.
On energy, [Sarah Palin] will either blunt McCain’s unreasonable opposition to ANWR, or, in fact — as an Alaskan pro-driller — give him the opening necessary to [...]
Lee on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
It’s rather amusing to see the ticket lacking in any executive experience, with a presidential nominee of extremely limited elected experience, attempting to attack McCain’s vice presidential nominee on grounds of inexperience. Reeling a bit perhaps. A more mature Democratic attack would go after the trooper scandal, the charge of reform hypocrisy and Sarah’s connection [...]
MikeR on Aug 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Powerline“In yesterday’s radio address, John McCain talked about how the energy issue unites foreign and domestic policy”.
Exactly right. Energy is more than a Green issue or a Carbon Footprint issue. It is intrinsically linked to our survival.
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Lee on Aug 16 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Ceasefire be damned,* the Russian army reportedly destroyed the Metekhi-Grakali railway bridge. The bridge was used by Georgian refugees fleeing the mayhem in the Russian occupied zones given that the highway is controlled by the Russian army, which has naturally acquired a rapacious reputation among Georgians. Thus it could expand the humanitarian crisis in Western [...]
Lance on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Notice what drilling is doing to the wildlife.
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MichaelW on Aug 10 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page
How much of the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russian conflict can be laid at the hands of a corrupt cabal of former soviet ministers bent on lining their own pockets? Perhaps a great deal.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has handed his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, a victory over the “siloviki” in Russia. And if Medvedev is able to [...]
Lance on Jul 28 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Environment, Lance's Page, energy
I know that many of you think that global warming, at least anthropogenic global warming, is a fraud. I am not so sure. Either way though, I think Peter Huber has the broad contours of any attempt to address it correct.
So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another [...]
Lance on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Just not the way we are doing it now.
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Peg on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Environment, Peg's Page, energy, science
Sooner rather than later.
And this:
Perhaps turning food into transportation fuel would make sense if massive amounts of grain spoiled every year from a lack of demand, but that certainly isn’t the case. Farmers love the higher prices that come from the new demand to fill gas tanks, but higher prices have consequences for poorer nations [...]
Lance on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Environment
Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future:
Put another way, we’d need to equip 250,000 roofs a day with solar panels for the next 50 years to have enough photovoltaic infrastructure to [...]
Keith_Indy on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Keith's Page, Technology, energy, regulation
And by eventually, they mean decades down the road.
This is a perfect example of government getting in the way of the innovation we need to dig ourselves out of our fossil fuel dependency.
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If you want to build a wind farm in Minnesota right now, you’re in for a nasty surprise. A 612-year nasty surprise in [...]
Lee on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page
Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie)
John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African petroleum: Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil (the paperback edition is due out in April). Whilst [...]
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