I spent some time yesterday on a story that encapsulates a lot of energy issues here in New Mexico. Southeastern New Mexico is oil patch country, sitting atop the Permian Basin. Oil production there has long been in decline, but we’re seeing a bit of a boomlet there. $135 a barrel oil will do that. …
Global food prices rose 4 percent in the last week, according to the Economist food price index.
The most significant story in this morning’s Albuquerque Journal was hidden away, the sort of story that doesn’t get a lot of attention because it is about something that didn’t happen: It’s been nearly a year since Tecton Energy began its natural gas drilling in the West Mesa. So far, no luck. “(Tecton) believes there …
getting paid to float down a boat on a river: But among the river people there also is some nervousness about the future. Much of the funding for bosque habitat restoration work has come courtesy of Pete Domenici, who is retiring at the end of his current term. Love or hate those dreaded pork barrel …
High praise that recently showed up in a comment on an old thread on climate change adaptation and mitigation: This website is very nice and colorful too. Its nice to have something to show others where you attend church and to show all the smiling people filled of the goodness of the Lord. You have …
Today’s energy tip seems like a no-brainer, but really, who hasn’t driven around with a bunch of junk in the trunk of their car?
Great letter from Tom Swiler in today’s ABQJournal: I propose that carbon dioxide should also be known by the name “carba.” Other oxides are known as the elemental root followed by an “a.” For example, aluminum oxide is known as alumina and silicon dioxide is known as silica. Like the name “water,” “carba” is not …
Back in the day, I loved to write about supercomputers – the fastest this, the latest that. Eventually it got old. How many stories can you do about another computer being faster than the last one? But I brought the old tool kit out of retirement yesterday to mark Roadrunner breaking the petaflop barrier. Because …
stuff I wrote elsewhere
This week’s Economist food price index is at 252.1, essentially unchanged from last week, flat now over the last month, up 50 percent from a year ago.