Natural Gas vs. Wind: Which is Greener?

Why Natural Gas is Greener than Wind Energy

We have an opportunity to actually achieve real energy independence by shifting our efforts away from wind and solar and adopting a natural-gas infrastructure instead. The best part? It won’t require an avalanche of subsidies to succeed, either. All we need to do is get government and its social engineers out of the way.

U.S. Rotary Rig Count

U.S. Workover Rig Count

With data provided by Cameron, the workover rig count provides information for the most recent month and for the two preceding months about the number of workover rigs in the eight major regions of the United States. The most recent month’s data from 12 months ago is also highlighted with the percentage change between the two preceding months and the percentage change over the last 12 months.

View the September 2011 Workover Rig Count Table

Thorium Nuclear Energy

So what is the big deal about thorium?
 In 2006, writing in the magazine Cosmos, Tim Dean summarized perhaps the most optimistic scenario for what a Thorium-powered nuclear world would be like:

What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles? And what if the waste produced by such a reactor was radioactive for a mere few hundred years rather than tens of thousands? It may sound too good to be true, but such a reactor is indeed possible, and a number of teams around the world are now working to make it a reality. What makes this incredible reactor so different is its fuel source: thorium. 

The Universe is flat?

WMAP has confirmed this result with very high accuracy and precision. We now know that the universe is flat with only a 0.5% margin of error. This suggests that the Universe is infinite in extent; however, since the Universe has a finite age, we can only observe a finite volume of the Universe. All we can truly conclude is that the Universe is much larger than the volume we can directly observe.

Shape of the Universe - NASA

Happy Birthday North and South Dakota

November 02, 1889

The Dakota Territory

On this day in 1889, North and South Dakota were admitted into the Union. Both North and South Dakota have remained mostly rural, being ranked 48th and 46th in population respectively.

Shale Production Forecast