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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.68 | -2.47 | -2.77% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 90.37 | -1.56 | -1.70% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 89.64 | -0.54 | -0.60% | ||
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Mars US • 167 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 mins | 2.709 | -0.020 | -0.73% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 90.37 | -1.56 | -1.70% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 90.93 | -1.38 | -1.49% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 89.64 | -0.54 | -0.60% |
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Peace Sour • 5 hours | 75.35 | -2.68 | -3.43% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 5 hours | 78.40 | -2.68 | -3.31% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 5 hours | 85.35 | -2.68 | -3.04% | ||
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Central Alberta • 5 hours | 75.75 | -2.68 | -3.42% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.17 | -2.67 | -3.26% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.25 | -2.50 | -3.06% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 75.50 | -0.25 | -0.33% | ||
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Buena Vista • 7 days | 89.36 | +0.64 | +0.72% |
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Professor Chris Rhodes
Professor Chris Rhodes is a writer and researcher. He studied chemistry at Sussex University, earning both a B.Sc and a Doctoral degree (D.Phil.); rising to become the youngest professor of physical chemistry in the U.K. at the age of 34.
A prolific author, Chris has published more than 400 research and popular science articles (some in national newspapers: The Independent and The Daily Telegraph)
He has recently published his first novel, "University Shambles" was published in April 2009 (Melrose Books). http://universityshambles.com
Latest articles from Professor
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Peak Oil, The Middle East and Western Civilizations Sandy Foundations
Political tensions in the Middle East once again remind us of the fragile dependency of the Western nations on imported petroleum, which have driven the…
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The Greatest Threat to Green Energy
A list of "endangered elements" [1] has been published in a new report, including the rare earth elements (REEs) in particular neodymium, production of which,…
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A Recent History of Oil Prices ... History About to Repeat Itself?
The price of oil has oscillated from an all-time hike of almost $150 a barrel to a low of $30, hand in hand with the…
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Europe’s Low Carbon Goals Dealt a Blow as Clean Coal Plant Goes into Administration
The "Powerfuel" company that owns Hatfield Colliery in Yorkshire has entered administration due to lack of investment. The intention was to improve the mine and…
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Rare Earth Metals Shortage Made Worse by Smuggling
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in devices inlcuding wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers. China controls some…
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Britain Going All out for Wind Power
Britain has decided to go all-out for wind-power. On Thursday, I flew over the massive off-shore Thanet wind-farm - one of the largest in the…
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Regenerative Agriculture in a Peak Oil World
In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively…
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UK Joining Europe on Biogas Strategy
The European Union has a major drive to turn all kinds of waste into energy, particularly from biogas. There are two main incentives for this,…
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Artificial Cells and Fuel Production from Algae
In the latest issue of "Chemistry World" is a report describing "the first synthetic cell". What has in fact been done is to insert a…
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Algae Fuels Coming Under Pressure
The conventional route to biodiesel consists of extracting oil from plants and converting it to the methyl esters of fatty acids that are present in…
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Indium Shortage Creates problems For Solar Cell Manufacturers
One principal advantage of thin-film solar cells is that they use far less (maybe 1/100th the amount) of the semiconductor materials that are required to…
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Metals Shortages Threaten Developments in Solar Energy and Nuclear Power
It is not only an impending gap in demand and supply of oil that imposes upon the conservation of human civilization, the pressing and imminent…
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The Potential and Future of Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems employ lenses or mirrors coupled with tracking systems to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a small beam, rather…
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Natural Gas: Does Hydraulic Fracturing Really Cause Earthquakes
It is concluded that a "plausible cause" of a series of small earthquakes in Texas during 2008 - 2009 is saltwater pumped deep into the…
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Carbon Particles Effect on Global Warming
Black carbon particles from burning oil-based fuels and biomass, particularly in developing countries, are not only a health-hazard but may also contribute to global warming.…
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Peak Oil Demand: The Beginning and End of Oil
It is demand for oil that may peak as governments adapt to the problems of global warming, security of supply and an amplitude of market…
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The Challenges of Drilling for Offshore Oil
The first offshore oil well completely out of sight of land was drilled in 1947, 17 km off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of…
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The Hunt for Uranium is On
Last year Kazakhstan became the world's largest supplier of uranium, overtaking Australia and Canada, at 14,000 tonnes, or one fifth of world production. As supplies…
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Investment in North Sea Oil and Gas May provide 35% of UK Energy Demand
Combined output of North Sea oil and gas has fallen considerably from its heyday at the end of the 1970s to 2.48 million barrels a…
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Vast Oil and Life in the Deep earth
Two books speculate that oil is formed continually within the earth by geological processes and will not therefore run-out, in contrast to the opinion of…
