175-315 Billion barrels of oil are recoverable at $15 a barrel in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada. With a remaining potential of 1.7-2.5 Trillion barrels using advanced recovery techniques. Who knows what they'll discover tomorrow, but we know today, that in Canada's oil sands alone, the supplies will last over 100 years. MYTH: The World Is Running Out of Oil (ABC News) http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1954572 Alberta's Oil Sands: Facts and stats (Government of Alberta) http://oilsands.alberta.ca/519.cfm Analysis: Nuclear-powered oil sands (The Earth Times) http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/46143.html Oil sands cleanup (Financial Post, Canada) http://tinyurl.com/6z83dh Despite Popular Belief, The World is Not Running Out of Oil, Scientist Says (Science Daily) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019162104.htm Its a myth that the worlds oil is running out (The Times, UK) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3823656.ece Oil, Oil Everywhere... (The Wall Street Journal) http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006228 Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/business/05oil1.html Oil: Never Cry Wolf—Why the Petroleum Age Is Far from over (Science) http://www.energybulletin.net/node/347 The World Has Plenty of Oil (The Wall Street Journal) http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120459389654809159.html Energy Efficiency of Strategic Unconventional Resources (DOE) http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/Energy_Efficiency_Fact_Sheet.pdf The economic value of energy just doesn't depend very strongly on raw energy content as conventionally measured in British thermal units. Instead it's determined mainly by the distance between the BTUs and where you need them, and how densely the BTUs are packed into pounds of stuff you've got to move, and by the quality of the technology at hand to move, concentrate, refine and burn those BTUs, and by how your neighbors feel about carbon, uranium and windmills. In this entropic universe we occupy, the production of one unit of high-grade energy always requires more than one unit of low-grade energy at the outset. There are no exceptions. Put another way, Eroei--a sophomoric form of thermodynamic accounting--is always negative and always irrelevant. "Matter-energy" constraints count for nothing. The "monetary culture" still rules. Thermodynamics and Money (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT) http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/1031/122.html Additional U.S. Oil Reserves: - 1.8 to 6 Trillion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Oil-Shale Reserves (DOE) - 986 Billion barrels of oil are estimated using Coal-to-liquids (CTL) conversion of U.S. Coal Reserves (DOE) - 100 Billion barrels of heavy oil are estimated in the U.S. (DOE) - 90 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the Arctic (USGS) - 89 Billion barrels of immobile oil are estimated recoverable using CO2 injection in the U.S. (DOE) - 86 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (MMS) - 60 to 80 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in U.S. Tar Sands (DOE) - 32 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in ANWR, NPRA and the Central North Slope in Alaska (USGS) - 4.3 Billion (167 Billion potential) barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana (USGS) - 3.65 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation (USGS) - 1.6 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Eastern Great Basin Province (USGS) - 1.3 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Permian Basin Province (USGS) - 1.1 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Powder River Basin Province (USGS) - 990 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Portion of the Michigan Basin (USGS) - 393 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. San Joaquin Basin Province of California (USGS) - 214 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Illinois Basin (USGS) - 172 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Yukon Flats of East-Central Alaska (USGS) - 131 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Southwestern Wyoming Province (USGS) - 109 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Montana Thrust Belt Province (USGS) - 104 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Denver Basin Province (USGS) - 98.5 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin Province (USGS) - 94 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Hanna, Laramie, Shirley Basins Province (USGS)

Author: populartechnology
Keywords: Peak Oil Sands Tar Alberta Canada Petroleum Gas Hydrocarbon Energy John Stossel Myth
Added: July 29, 2008

We just got home from town and Nathan stole my camera...need i say more?

Author: ArisenPhoenix1031
Keywords: home video blog random camera Nathan Charity
Added: April 9, 2008

Video shows E. coli cells being manipulated on a silicon chip using 'optical tweezers' to form the letters 'MIT.' Video by Lang and Appleyard, MIT. Full Story - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nano-assembly-1031.html Original posting on MIT TechTV - http://techtv.mit.edu/file/336

Author: mittechtv
Keywords: e. coli cells manipulate silicon optical tweezers mit microscope mittechtv
Added: April 3, 2008

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and estuary along the Gulf of Mexico on the western coast of Florida, comprising Old Tampa Bay, Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, and New Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is Florida's largest open-water estuary, extending over 1031 square km.[1] and forming coastlines of Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas counties. The freshwater sources of the Bay are distributed among over a hundred small tributaries, rather than a single river.[2] Beginning the reversal of decades of unrestricted pollution, the bay was designated an estuary of national significance by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for its fringe of mangrove and its prolific mud flats: more than 200 species of fish are to be found in Tampa Bay and 25 species of birds make it their year-round home. The warm water outfalls of power plants bordering the bay draw one out of every six endangered manatees to spend the winter. Equally significant though less immediately visible is the role of the Bay's waters as nurseries for shrimp and crabs, as well as less commercial invertebrates. Two National Wildlife Refuges are located in Tampa Bay: Pinellas National Wildlife Refuge and the refuge on Egmont Key. Most of the smaller islands in the Bay are off-limits to the public, due to their fragile ecology and their use as nesting sites for brown pelicans, herons, egrets, Roseate spoonbills, cormorants and others. The Tampa Bay Estuary Program keeps watch over the Bay's health.[3] Transportation Due in large part to the Port of Tampa and the dredging of more than eighty miles of deep-water shipping channels, seaborne commerce has historically been a large part of the Tampa Bay Area's economy. The area boasts the largest port in Florida and the 10th largest in the nation -- the Port of Tampa. The port accommodates half of Florida's cargo in the form of bulk, break bulk, roll-on/roll-off, refrigerated and container cargo. The port also has a large ship repair and building industry, and recently expanded cruise facilities. The Port of Manatee, with more refrigerated dockside space than any other Gulf of Mexico port, is the closest of the three Tampa Bay deepwater ports to the Panama Canal. It is also one of the state's busiest, ranking fifth among Florida's fourteen seaports in total annual cargo tonnage. The Port of St. Petersburg is home to a U.S. Coast Guard station. The smallest of Florida's ports, it operates as a landlord port managed by the city of St. Petersburg. Bridges that cross Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge Gandy Bridge Howard Frankland Bridge Courtney Campbell Causeway Clearwater Bayside Bridge Temple Terrace

Author: robtfdfbvv
Keywords: Tampa
Added: December 4, 2006