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Tag Archives: energy
Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash
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 … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, commerical-adventurer, drinking, drunk, energy, FPSO, grandchildren, Gulf of Guniea, gunboats, incompetent, international watrers, Lagos, Nigeria, offshore exploration, oil, oil exploration, oil reserves, oilfield trash, piracy, pirates, quasi-war, West Africa
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Armies of the Obsolete
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen
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Comprehensive Energy Policy Emerging
IBDPerhaps we are making progress.
A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden
(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 … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, administration, Aliyev, Armenia, Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani, Azeris, Babylon, Baku, black garden, Boris Yeltsin, Clinton, crypto-fascism, Denena, Dick Cheney, Dmitry Medvedev, Elmar Mammadyarov, energy, ethnic, Europe, Henry Kissinger, hostage, imports, Iran, Jerusalem, Karabakh, King, Kommersant, Medvedev, miltiarism, Moscow, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, Nagorno-Karabakh, natural gas, opera, OSI, Persia, petrocracy, Rahim Alizadeh, Russia, security, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, United States, Verdi, Washington, Yagub Eyubov
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McCain Hits Back. Hard.
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; … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged Alaska, Brian Williams, City Council, election, energy, experience, Governor, mayor, McCain, Obama, Palin, PTA, Sarah Palin, vice president
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Evolving McCain
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged Alaska, ANWR, drilling, energy, energy independence, McCain, oil, Palin, Sarah Palin, Victor Davis Hanson
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A Loss of Democratic Self-Awareness
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged Biden, big oil, Bush, election, energy, experience, Kennedy, McCain, Obama, Palin, president, scandal, vice president
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Energy – A “Uniting” Issue
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.
The Vandalism of Russian Occupation
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged army, Azerbaijan, Azeri, bridge, ceasefire, Condoleezza Rice, corruption, energy, export, factions, Georgia, humanitarian crisis, infrastructure, Medvedev, Metekhi-Grakali, military, occupation, oligarchy, oligcarch, refugees, Russia, vandalism
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The Beauty of Anwar
Notice what drilling is doing to the wildlife.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Alaska, ANWR, beauty, energy, Environment, oil, wildlife
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An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore and Friends
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Lance's Page
Tagged energy, Environment, global warming
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We can address our energy needs
Just not the way we are doing it now.
Stop the Madness
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Peg's Page, science
Tagged biofuel, Domestic Politics, energy, ethanol
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A Cubic Mile of Oil
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 … Continue reading
We’ll Get To That Wind Farm Application – Eventually
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. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1362/1/ If you want to build … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, energy, Environment, Keith's Page, regulation, Technology
Tagged energy, government, innovation, MISO, regulation, stiffling, wind power
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Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe
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