by Warren Dym | Jul 18, 2013 | Monitor
Israel’s deepest well targets 1.5 billion barrels of oil Bloomberg The deepest oil well drilled in Israel’s 65-year history may be the most important. Houston’s Noble Energy Inc. (NBL) will probe 6,500 meters (4 miles) below the Mediterranean seabed later this year,...
by Warren Dym | Jul 2, 2013 | Monitor
Among the Obama Administration’s most important foreign policy initiatives is a pivot to East Asia. As formal military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan close down, and as U.S. allies like Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea negotiate the ‘peaceful rise’ of...
by Warren Dym | Jun 28, 2013 | Monitor
Temperatures Could Hit 120 in the West The Associated Press The heat wave that is gripping the western U.S. is one of the worst in years, with desert locations in the Southwest seeing temperatures approach 120 degrees. To give some perspective on the heat, here are...
by Warren Dym | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
CSP for 5.57 Cents/kWh Zachary Shahan / Clean Technica One of the key assumptions in determining the cost of electricity from a power plant is how long that power plant will be operational. Almost universally, that estimate is too low. But I think this “mistake” is...
