Number of words: 217 Decomposing organic matter over millions of years produced oil when underground heat of up to 150°C kick-started the process of changing it into hydrocarbons, which come in different degrees of complexity from the simple mixture of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms to make methane – CH – to the … Read more
Number of words: 210 Civilisations have fallen because of an inability to acquire sufficient quantities of energy, food and metals. Societies that have managed to control access to natural resources have survived and those that have failed have become extinct. The Spanish conquistadores’ pillage of Peru and Mexico, destroying both the Aztec and Inca cultures, … Read more
Number of words: 235 Whatever product or service you look at, its pricing is based on fossil fuels. Infrastructure and construction are reliant on metals mined all over the world, from Canada to Australia, but those metals not only need to be mined, they need to be processed and transported by ships and trucks to … Read more
Number of words: 367 In greed we trust . Classically trained economists love the idea that the answer to all our problems is to be found in the lure of profit , but unfortunately this idea ignores two fundamental equations in relation to oil . Firstly, it is assumed that just because we have the … Read more
Number of words: 732 Today’s oil business started on the cusp of the American Civil War ( which pitted the industrialised North against the slave dependent South ) when , in August 1859 , Edwin L. Drake drilled down seventy – five feet on a farm in Pennsylvania and thus began Rockefeller later consolidated to a … Read more
Number of words: 1,135 Tree squirrels are the Olympic divers of the rodent world, leaping gracefully among branches and structures high above the ground. And as with human divers, a squirrel’s success in this competition requires both physical strength and mental adaptability. A newly published study shows that squirrels leap and land without falling by … Read more
Number of words: 1,772 Those who pay attention to business news have probably noted an interesting and curious phenomenon over the past few months: China is smashing its internet companies. It started — or at least, most people in the U.S. started noticing it — when the government effectively canceled the IPO of Ant Financial, then … Read more
Number of words: 1,943 The massacre was triggered off by the most trivial incident. Some rations and a bottle of whisky were stolen at the village of Rotung, ten miles east of Kebang, and Williamson told the villagers that he would require satisfaction on his return. He and his party then crossed the Dihong into … Read more
Number of words: 563 In unadministered frontier areas and Indian native states the authority of the British Raj was usually vested in the political agent or the political officer. His powers were limited, so his effectiveness as an administrator was largely dependent on the degree to which he could impose his will on peoples who … Read more
Number of words: 508 The Rawats of Johar valley claim that their ancestors were part of the large-scale Hindu exodus from Rajputana following the invasion of Mohammed Ghori in the twelfth century. In about 1680 a leading member of the clan named Hiru Dham Singh went on a pilgrimage to Kailas-Manasarovar. He took with him … Read more
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