stickman's corral

I was quoted in a recent article about bringing power to sub-Saharan Africa: " How do you bring electricity to 620 million people? ...

I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm's " Climate Progress " blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the ye...

Busy times for yours truly over the last two weeks. Here is a list of things that I've been doing, plus one or two items that I spotted ...

I've tried to emphasise the importance of relative concepts many times on this blog. However, there are occasions when relative measures...

This was the title of a post I wrote last week for the Recon Hub. It may seem like I am merely trolling for viewer hits here. However, the...

Given the inadvertent success of my previous post , I've decided to take the philosophical route for this next one: My fifteen minutes ...

I had a long video chat with David Zetland yesterday, where we discussed fracking, water pollution, property rights and a bunch of related ...

My new article for The Energy Collective is up: Hydraulic Fracking and Water Pollution . There's much debate about whether shale gas ...

I should perhaps have mentioned this last Friday when it was published, but my new post for The Energy Collective is up: Bridging the Gap? ...

Some exciting news for yours truly is that I'll be writing a series of articles for the excellent energy and climate website, The Energy...

Daniel Yergin (one of the world's foremost energy experts) tweeted yesterday: " Too soon to say what Hugo Chavez’ death means for o...

Extreme Environment (hereafter EE ) is a book written by South African journalist, Ivo Vegter. I have mentioned Vegter before  on this blog...

Following what I hope is my last written exam ever earlier this month, I must apologise for the sporadic posting of late. You see, I've ...

Busy times over here with term papers due, TA work and finishing up some revisions for my current working paper. (Referee comments were pret...

Okay, one more gold-related post before I go home... Following on from my last post, I've just clicked through to Chris's website ...

I'm about to go into a pre-exam blogging hibernation, but here are some links to keep you interested: 1) Ed Dolan gives a nice overvie...

In the build up to this year's Earth Hour , humourless critics were once again up in arms about the fact that turning off the lights for...

As a general rule, bottled water is not particularly good for the environment. If I were the judgmental type, I might even chime in that buy...

In other news... I finally submitted my (co-authored) paper to a journal yesterday. Title:  Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and C...

Some things that I've been meaning to write about, but short on time[*]... 1) A heavily fancied South Africa bombs out during the knoc...