The Appliance of Trust
Although I don’t recommend it, considering things in the fevered daze of influenza is a great counterweight to thinking things through in my normal state of mind, a little bit like Herodutus’ “Persian...
View ArticleNew Hands on DECC
So, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have a new top dog – Alex Chisholm – formerly the attack beast in charge of putting pressure on the electricity utility companies over their...
View ArticleBrexit or Remain ? Evolving Political Realities
I have been looking at some of the finer details of the new BP report – the annual “Statistical Review of World Energy” for 2016. It’s a bit confusing trying to compare it to the 2015 report, to try to...
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JODI Oil and BP #1
Once a year BP plc publishes their Statistical Review of World Energy, as they have done for 65 years, now. Recent editions have been digital and anodyne, with lots of mini-analyses and charts and...
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JODI Oil and BP #2
Previously, I was comparing data from the annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy with the annual averages of JODI Oil data, and when I cast my eye over a table of differences, it was easy to...
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The Delta, The Ramp, The Stretch and The Duck #1
.float_left { float: left; border: 2px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px; } I gave a guest lecture at Birkbeck College, of the University of London on the...
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The Delta, The Ramp, The Stretch and The Duck #2
.float_left { float: left; border: 2px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px; } Because of the delta, or change, in temperature of the Earth’s surface, which is...
View ArticleJumping off Mount Gideon
[Friends, I have suffered a little writer’s block, so I resolved to spark some creativity in myself by joining a little local writers group. The leader of the group suggested a title, I Googled the...
View ArticleClean Burn : Introduction and Objectives
From my studies, I conclude that humanity will continue to use gas energy fuels for a long time to come. In that case, we need to know how to burn it cleanly, so I am starting a new phase of research...
View ArticleRussia Sours
I have a theory. But I don’t have access to the data to confirm or deny it. The data is in the hands of the oil and gas companies, and private oil industry data concerns, who charge a lot of money for...
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