I remember the first time I saw the odd flaps on the back of a truck driving on the highway. I thought it looked like just the strangest thing ever, but my dad explained to me that it was all about...
Technological progress in the oil and energy industry lower production costs. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution discovered oil as a new source of energy. Engineers discovered how to drill and...
Over 35,000 petroleum engineers work in the United States each year. They work at drilling sites under the hot desert sun, in the cool air of the Arctic, and up against waves in the high seas. They’re...
Energy encompasses everything from traditional coal and natural gas to newer, alternative sources such as wind power. Learn all about the many forms of energy available to us and the latest developments.
When I first heard the term “sponge park” I envisioned children running around in a park pretty much made of sponges. In my mind, it was a water park, of sorts. Children bounced around on soft sponges and soaked them in...
Toilet. Loo. Porcelain throne. The Oval Office. Whatever you call it, how often do you really think about your toilet? Toilets are an incredibly important sanitation technology that are easily taken for granted. I mean...
On Sunday, December 4, 2016, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Energy Transfer Partners LP a building permit for the section of the $3.8 billion pipeline project that runs under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. For...
Much unlike the many alternative energy efforts undertaken daily across the globe, the Asian Super Grid is not so much a response to the consumption of fossil fuels as it is to natural disaster. It’s already been over...
“Access to energy is fundamental to improving quality of life and is a key imperative for economic development.” Living in a first world country with easy access to a variety of modern energy sources...
The movement towards “environmentally-friendly” energy resources (definitively amplified in President Obama’s second term) seems to be an effort that many Americans seem to agree with. Yearly, massive renewable energy...
It’s been a long time since the Apache Corporation of Houston, Texas drilled its first oil well. Going on 63 years to be exact: and the oil exploration company seems to have just struck liquid gold in West Texas –...
Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, coal takes on a new meaning. For us, it’s not just a seemingly antiquated energy resource facing the end of its centuries-long run – no, for us, it remains an integral part of NEPA...
In March of 1848, a Mormon merchant named Samuel Brannan confirmed the discovery of vast amounts of gold buried in the mountainous lands of Northern California to the unwitting San Francisco Bay Area public. Brannan had...
When speaking, the humble, teenaged, World Science Champion from Nigeria, Kpakpando Akaeze, exhibits an intellect and eloquence far beyond her years. By 15, Kpakpando was retrofitting generators to run on waste oil and...
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