stickman's corral

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 ...

about their water footprint. Like thermal-based power plants , data centers are thirsty bastards when it comes to cooling water. The abov...

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...

From The Economist : Of the nuclear plants that provide about a third of Japan’s electricity (see chart), Fukushima Dai-ichi is not the fir...

I've been drowning in work and other stuff lately, so no blog posts. Like everyone else though, I've been watching the unfolding tra...

Having discussed some similar implications for the grandiose solar plans in South Africa, here's a snippet from an interview with Brigh...

(Semi) fresh on the heals of The Corral's coverage of an appeal to major water-using companies to fund "an extensive water monito...

My previous post linked to a new alarming/alarmist (potato, potahto) study of South Africa’s water pollution problems. I mentioned some eco...

Supplies, supplies. (See what I did there?) So back home, more and more people are cottoning on to the fact that the local water situation...