Al Fin runs a number of very successful blogs that cover, energy, technology, news and politics.
Most people wonder how much power a wind turbine can produce, and never stop to wonder how much power a wind turbine requires to operate.…
Peak oil apostles claim that as oil resources dry up, the ability to maintain agriculture, plastics, and petrochemicals industries will be destroyed. But the human…
A 2003 research paper by Kvenvolden and Cooper in Geo-Marine Letters estimated that natural seeps dump 140,000 metric tons of crude oil into the Gulf…
Scientists have known for quite a while that most of Earth's oil came from vast numbers of oceanic microscopic organisms -- rather than from dead…
Take a good look at the graph below. It shows average annual oil spills into the ocean in thousands of metric tonnes. Nature spills more…
We like to say that life on Earth could not survive without the sun, but that isn't actually true. Without the sun the surface of…
Journalists from the mainstream media have been credulous cheerleaders for the wind and solar industries -- and for the faux environmental movement in general. Rod…
...the pressure in the well has now risen to just over 6,900 psi, while the temperature at the BOP remains at 40 deg – suggesting…
Tropical Storm Bonnie broke up over Florida, and is now heading across the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical depression. Some of the mission-critical ships…
A team of scientists at George Washington University and Howard University have devised a theoretical means of splitting CO2, turning the demon gas into either…
BP workers in the Gulf of Mexico have stopped drilling a relief well and are preparing to evacuate the oil spill site as a tropical…
Officials had worried that the seep — usually a flow of hydrocarbons from the seafloor — could have been evidence that oil, gas or both…
In Kent Wells' 19July evening press briefing, he announced the possibility that BP would attempt a new way to kill the well from the top…
For almost 2 days, the US government has withheld final permission for BP to go ahead with crucial but risky pressure testing at the Macondo…
A lot of otherwise normal, well-functioning persons are firm believers in the idea that global oil production has irrevocably peaked -- or is soon to…
1. New cap over the blowout preventer (BOP) to allow more efficient oil recovery: BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) told the U.S. Coast Guard late Friday…
The leading relief well is now at 17,000 feet, and slowly closing in on the Macondo bore. Meanwhile, on the surface, testing continues on the…
The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound released 10.8 million gallons of oil -- or almost 250,000 barrels of oil. But natural…