Fields: Mandaree (Dunn); Ross (Mountrail); Eagle Nest (Dunn) Comments: Enerplus has permits for a four-well Mandaree "weed pad in 21-149-93; Hunt has permits for a three pad in 2-156-90; and, Petroshale has a single Helen permit in Eagle Nest, section 9-148-94
Three producing wells (DUCs) were reported as completed:
32019, 1,024, Hess, CA-Stangeland-155-95-2128H-7, Capa, t10/18; cum --;
32020, 1,496, Hess, CA-Stangeland-155-95-2128H-6, Capa, t10/18; cum --;
32021, 1,313, Hess, CA-Stangeland-155-95-2128H-5, Capa, t10/18; cum --;
The investigation so
far indicates the airplane broke apart during the flight while the plane
was about 12,000 feet above ground, Kirchmeier said. The National
Transportation Board is investigating what caused the incident.
The plane was not struck by anything and there was no fire, he said. Weather also is not believed to have been a factor.
I maintain copious notes in handwritten journals, and additional notes in "word" documents on the hard drive.
I'm getting a much better feeling for the "origin" of the Bible -- at least in my mind; we will all have different world views (myths).
The first thing one must do, is note the dates. Many of the dates are not known at all. Because of so much research, more and more, the dates for events after Joseph's life on Earth are "known." Most frustrating, in wiki, the entry's first mention of pharaohs by name is in the section "Pharaohs in the Book of Exodus." The entry does not mention any pharaoh by name in the book of Genesis. In fact, Genesis 47:11: "Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and granted them a holding in the land of Egypt, int he best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed."
The scribes writing "in the land of Rameses" could be literal, and contemporary, suggesting that Joseph was in Egypt at the time of Rameses, or the scribes could have been using a literary tag, just as we often today still call Illinois "the land of Lincoln."
The first Rameses, reigned for one year, founded the 19th Dynasty, 1292 - 1291, time-frame (which by the way is very, very close to time of Trojan War). The last Rameses, Rameses XI reigned in the 20th Dynasty, from 1107 BCE to about 1078 BCE.
Interestingly, it seems we have not come much farther along figuring out Homer's timeline. I like to think that he was most likely alive between 800 BC and 700 BCE (link here). But some suggest he may have lived during or soon after the Trojan War (around 1200 BCE -- probably around 1190 BCE).
The Babylonian Exile: probably somewhere between 598 and 538 BCE -- going into exile and coming out of exile spanning years if not decades, especially the return. It appears many experts suggest the early Torah had its written origins during the years of the exile.
8th century BCE: the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language, creating in the process the first "true" alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with consonants -- wiki.
Consonantal writing used for Semitic languages in the Levant go all the way back to the second millennium BCE -- wiki.
The Torah is written in Hebrew, the oldest of Jewish languages -- BBC.
From wiki:
The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date from the 10th century BCE.
Hebrew belongs to the West Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language left, and the only truly successful example of a revived dead language.
Hebrew had ceased to be an everyday spoken language somewhere between 200 and 400 CE, declining since the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Aramaic and to a lesser extent Greek were already in use as international languages, especially among elites and immigrants. Hebrew survived into the medieval period as the language of Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and poetry.
Then, in the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language. It became the lingua franca of Palestine's Jews, and subsequently of the State of Israel. According to Ethnologue, in 1998, it was the language of 5 million people worldwide. After Israel, the United States has the second largest Hebrew-speaking population, with 220,000 fluent speakers, mostly from Israel.
This is quite interesting. Hebrew and Latin would have followed a similar path, with each language surviving among their respective clergy and liturgy. But then Latin as an oral language died out, never to return -- a dead language. Hebrew "rose from the dead."
When I put all this together, in my mind, Homer's writing of the two great epics was "contemporary" with the Bible in the big scheme of things. "Contemporary" -- spanning several centuries in the first millennium BCE.
Algore bet on the wrong horse. Imagine if Algore had predicted a mini-ice age back in 1994 -- he would have been seen now as a genius -- rivaling that of Einstein. Instead, we get this:
Got gas?
A reader noted that just because it's cold somewhere, doesn't mean it's cold everywhere. See first comment. That's true, but it certainly seems cold almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere right now. At least in North America, Europe and Russia. I don't know about China.
Passed/past her shelf life (by several election cycles):
Most popular votes: the meme that "someone" in the national election received more popular votes but still lost the election is becoming a bit overused, a cliche. In fact, the way the state of California has changed their election laws means this:
it is a fact: more than likely from here on out: the winner of the popular vote in national elections will likely not win the electoral college vote; call it the "California effect" (see below) -- Ms Kamala Harris can take every vote in California but she will still get no more electoral votes than if she won by the narrowest of margins; taking all the votes in California guarantees one will take the "national popular vote"; and, one could still lose the presidential election
regardless of of what party you are when you go into the voting booth in
California, you will leave having voted for a Democratic candidate
over time, the GOP will completely die out in California; not only is it almost impossible now to win if one declares as a Republican in California, in the near future, GOP candidates won't even be on the California statewide ballot
it is possible that the number of people voting in California will decline over time when it is clear that their votes no longer matter; in Texas, many disaffected folks feel their votes do not matter; Texas has the nation's worst voter turnout; my vote in Texas definitely won't count -- mostly because it will be canceled out by my wife's vote. LOL.
California caravan: US border closed temporarily to strengthen the fence. Something tells me that if the US said they were going to close the border until the Honduran caravan turned around, the Mexican government would have that caravan turned around in a NY minute.
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The Book Page
A huge thank-you to a reader for reminding me to post this.
I finished reading this book for the third time -- each time I understand it a bit more; each time what I do understand is reinforced. I highly recommend it for any high school student in advanced chemistry or physics classes: Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World, Michael D. Fayer, Ph.D, Stanford University, c. 2020.
Fayer describes how CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas. Incredibly well written and easily understood by students as young as those in middle school.
Fayer noted that without CO2 warming the planet, the Earth would probably be too cold to support human life.
Unfortunately he then concludes that section by "comparing" what is happening on Earth to that on Venus, and this is how otherwise credible physicists lose their credibility.
I speak from experience: I had a most excellent chemistry professor in college, but he was "hung up" on fluoridated water -- the "global warming" fad of the 1960's. He was a great chemistry professor but he did lose a bit of his objectivity as a scientist when he went on and on about the hazards of fluoridation. I don't know if he had any concerns about iodized salt (which, by the way, seems to me to be a misnomer of sorts).
From pp. 298 - 299 for Fayer's book:
Today the concentration of CO2 in [Earth's atmosphere] is 0.038%, or 380 ppm (parts per million by volume). In 2000, it was 368 ppm. In 1990, it was 354 ppm.....
What happens if the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere continues to rise? [And I'm not making this up. This is how Fayer answers that question.]
What happens if the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere continues to rise? Venus is an extreme example. Its atmosphere is more than 90% CO2, and its temperature is approximately 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some observations and comments:
Fayer provided the ppm / percentage conversions for several historical points in Earth's history (as low as 284 ppm in 1832 to as high as 380 ppm now); but he never noted that 90% converts to 900,000 ppm on Venus -- a tad bit more than the Earth's current 440 ppm, and not even close to the 600 ppm projected by faux environmentalists for the end of this century
he did not note that Venus is a tad bit closer to the Sun than is Earth
he did not provide any of the current theories for how the atmosphere on Venus came to be predominantly CO2, and none of the current theories relate at all to what is happening on Earth
if one is interested in connecting the dots, the dots will take you to oceans (non-existent on Venus and apparently rising on Earth); classical algebra tells me that as the Earth's oceans rise, the volume of ocean water will also increase
By the way, Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel prizes in two different fields (the only one to have done that, I believe) also lost a bit of objectivity when it came to vitamin C.
By the way, speaking of oceans, look at this: scientists unable to explain "oceans and missing water." But we know that if "we don't do anything," the Earth will be 2 degrees warmer in 2100 than it is now. From the linked article:
And that raises some questions: The water that goes down must come up,
usually in the contents of volcanic eruptions. The new estimate of how
much water is going down is larger than estimates of how much is being
emitted by volcanoes, meaning scientists are missing something in their
estimates, the researchers said. There is no missing water in the
oceans, Cai said. That means the amount of water dragged down into the
crust and the amount spouted back out should be about equal. The fact
that they aren't suggests that there's something about how water moves
through the interior of Earth that scientists don't yet understand.
So much to learn as long as one has an open mind. The science of global warming is not "closed." At least in my mind.
In eleven years of blogging about the energy industry, I have never seen a renewable energy company (solar/wind) give this kind of support to the community. Solar/wind relies on grants, credits, mandates, in exchange for higher electricity prices.
From Reuters: US shale firms offer $100 million to aid Texas, New Mexico in infrastructure.
More than a dozen top U.S. energy companies have pledged $100 million
toward easing stresses on health care, education and civic
infrastructure from the shale oil and gas boom in West Texas and New
Mexico.
Chevron, EOG Resources, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are among
17 companies backing the Permian Strategic Partnership, as the
consortium is called.
The
group seeks to address labor and housing shortages, overtaxed health
care and traffic congestion caused in part by companies descending on
the Permian Basin, the nation’s largest oilfield, where they hope to
pump billions of dollars’ worth of oil and gas in coming decades.
The race is on and here comes WTI up the backstretch. On November 5, CME
Group launched a Houston WTI futures contract, challenging a similar
trading vehicle from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) that started up in
mid-October.
Ever since crude flows to the Gulf Coast took off five
years ago, the crude market has been clamoring for a trading vehicle
that would accurately reflect pricing in the region that dominates U.S.
demand from refineries, imports and exports.
Now there are two.
But
their features are quite distinct. ICE’s contract reflects barrels
delivered to Magellan East Houston, while CME’s contract is based on
deliveries into Enterprise’s Houston system. The specs are different, as
are the physical attributes of the two delivery points. Will both
survive? Probably not. Futures markets tend to concentrate liquidity —
trading activity — into a single vehicle that best meets the needs of
the market. So, which of these will come out on top? That’s what the
crude oil market wants to know. In today’s blog, we delve into the
differences between the two new futures contracts for West Texas
Intermediate (WTI) crude delivered to Houston and ponder the market
implications of these new hedging and trading tools.
