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Author Archives: Steve Maley
Venezuela Set To Import Oil #rsrh
A coals-to-Newcastle story. Venezuela has enormous heavy-oil reserves, but needs to blend that oil with lighter grades to get it to market. Governments are horrible resource managers; in no time, they turn bounty to poverty because they can’t avoid the … Continue reading
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Slate: Conservatives are Dumb
You’ll not have a more vapid read this week than this piece of mush by young Katy Waldman at Slate. “The Science of Truthiness” purports to unlock the mystery of conservative thought; its essence is in Stephen Colbert’s coinage of … Continue reading
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Oil Simulation, Climate Modeling and the Scientific Method
Subtitle: Garbage In, Consensus Out, Part II Part I concerned a WSJ essay by Robert J. Caprara, “Confessions of a Computer Modeler”. In Part II I will share what I know about computer modeling in oil and gas applications, and raise questions about … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate modeling, computer modeling, differential equations, reservoir simulation
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Numerically-challenged press release from Dept of Interior #rsrh
The headline is right, but the first paragraph is wrong: “$109,951,644 million” would be an amount 6 times the national debt, or approximately what the projected debt will be at the end of the Obama Administration. Further proof that those … Continue reading
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A new twist on an old grade school science project
This why we don’t have to worry about Peak Oil: at some point, price and necessity drive innovation*. It has been that way since the days of Thomas Malthus. *Government cannot and will not mandate innovation. They may be helpful … Continue reading
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Top 10 reasons the new WordPress Beep Boop Boob editor is a stunning failure.
I associate myself with the gentleman’s remarks.
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Garbage In, Consensus Out: Part I
In the July 8 Wall Street Journal, Robert J. Caprara describes the process of computer modeling, and the motivations of the modeler. He was a consultant charged with building a detailed computer model of the nation’s fresh water sources, including … Continue reading
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Bill Nye @TheScienceGuy and Al Gore, ‘not even wrong’ on CO2 ‘Climate 101’ experiment according to paper published in AIP Journal
Another instance of “fake but accurate”: a case study in confirmation bias. Bill Nye and AlGore foist a “proof” of Global Warming’s key mechanism on the rubes, but the underlying physics of the experimental setup is shown to be flawed.
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