One of the banes of deepwater oil and gas recovery is the tendency of the control lines and pipelines to be plugged by an ever present material called methane hydrate. When this compound leaves the elevated temperatures of the subterranean world and encounters the cold temperatures of the sea floor at the high pressures at…
Mark Steyn absolutely slaughters a point that I, in my amateurish blogger manner, barely scraped the surface of when I wrote this: The governmental bureaucracy thrives on heredity – they value longevity as an avenue for advancement and view loyalty and chronology of service over performance. The recent “revolts” of the public sector unions served…
The Rio Norte Line 