Many Question the Effective Safety of the Devices. If you haven’t heard the term “blowout” over the last few days then you haven’t been reading the daily news or watching the events unfold in the Gulf of Mexico. The British…
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Because of its position over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and between two fault plates, Iceland is a land of volcanoes. In fact, it has 130 volcanic mountains, and 18 of these have erupted since settlement began on the island in 874…
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Below the sea floors lie vast reserves of oil. One 1996 estimate put the amount at 1.3 trillion gallons. If this figure is accurate it is roughly half of the total oil reserves on the globe. The Mineral Management Service…
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The semisubmersible platform drilling rig discovered oil. Once this occurs, the rig is replaced by a production platform considered a permanent platform. The assembly, completed on land, is brought to the oil site by a barge that has heavy lift…
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How do forecasters know what the weather will be like tomorrow and the next day and the day after that? Like modern day fortune tellers, they predict the future and get it right most of the time. But theseprognosticators don’t read…
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An oil rig is a structured work platform located over deeply concealed fossil fuel reserves below the surface of the earth. The equipment used is designed for boring through centuries of layered sediments, much of what is impermeable rock, or…
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A look at the five basic types of air masses that determine the US’s weather helps people better understand the upcoming weather forecast. First developed in 1920 by a Norwegian father and son team, Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes, understanding about air…
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Using waste materials to create useful and biodegradable products has long been a goal of researchers and environmentalists. One such product is plastic, which is usually made from petroleum. In the US, about one hundred billion pounds of plastic is used each…
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Futuristic environmental efforts demand that as many waste products as possible be reused. Chicken feathers is one such resource that is being reused. Plastics from chicken feathers are a new patented invention, but chicken feathers in some form or another…
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Ghost nets have nothing to do with the paranormal. They are the result of a greedy fishing industry and political leaders who turn the other way to the suffering and needless deaths of many animals in our waters. Ghost nets…
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