The California Monterey fields have four times the reserves of Bakken:
Harold Hamm (billionaire owner of Continental oil) estimates the Bakken oil field will produce six times (24 billion barrels) the oil of the EIA estimate. Harold Hamm also believes that the San Joaquin Monterey California fields are the next big horizontal drilling play.
So much for “peak oil.” Of course, the problem is that we don’t yet seem to have reached peak stupidity in Sacramento (or among the California electorate).
They’ll be able to do it on the moon, too. This is one of the technologies that will enable space settlement.
And I’m feeling a lot of schadenfreude.
Related: did social media usage drive Republicans more than Democrats? That seems counterintuitive but it may be so.
An interesting article at the BBC.
That uses sun and sand. He should work on a version to test on the moon.
Should not have been at all surprising.
…that seem to work in the brain. Faster, please.
From above. Not clear whether this is aerial or satellite.
A surreal conversation. As someone over on Twitter noted, Italian ship captaining has gone downhill since that guy from Genoa half a millennium ago.
How to survive it.