gaseous

Kyoto signatories are going to solve a lot of their atmospheric carbon requirements by carbon sequestering - basically, storing CO₂ underground.

The Saudis are reportedly planning a massive gas injection programme as part of a plan to rehabilitate several of their older, mostly-closed fields, and get them back up to 500,000bpd each. The probability of success here seems slim, but they're confident they can do it and are certainly going to try. They want to use - you guessed it! - CO₂.

Matthew Simmons asked in his book where they're going to get the gas. He didn't know. Clearly, Kyoto signatories are going to have a marvelous export market in a valuable commodity if this works out.

I thought of this when I read about it in his book, but didn't really know what to do with it. Simmons knows oil, but since this isn't oil, he missed this bit of data. So I'm posting it here. The Saudis, by planning this particular style of gas-injection programme, clearly figured this out some time ago.

not at all sure

I don't think I've ever had this much trouble with an article. Or, for that matter, a paper, and this is easier than a paper. God damn. It's like pulling teeth, and I don't even know why. But somehow I've got to hack 600 words out of this thing without losing any more data - it's already more incomplete than it should be.

I'd ask for more pages, but I'm already writing double-sized articles for them. (The format for these things is 750 words, and they're giving me 1500. And paying me extra to make up the difference. I don't want to push that.)

In more pleasant news, we saw Curse of the Were-Rabbit last night, which, while longer than probably would have been best for what it was, kept me entertained, and today, annathepiper and I walked down to the shops and around the trail where I took a bunch of leaf pictures that I hope come out, since I'll need something soon to replace the flower pictures once they run out for the winter. (That's the plan: from flowerpics to leafpics. Then snowpics, if available! Then back to flowers. It's me plan, I planned it.)

Once we got back home, the rain decided to hold off a bit longer, so I got in a nice swath of weeding in some of the really nasty border areas along the north side of the lot, and made some actual root-removal-level attacks on the blackberries coming over from the neighbour's lot. In particular, I got the brambles back off the road, so there'll be a sane place to park for people who drive here to visit.

While weeding, I noticed that the bush near the fire hydrant has fruit on it. I took some pictures so I'm hoping that somebody here knows whether it's deadly poison or tasty surprise treat! But I can't post them yet, because they're still on Paul's camera, and I don't know where Paul put the cable, so I'll post them tomorrow.

And in further garden food news, kathrynt is going to loan me her unused-this-year cold frame, which will help warm the soil and hopefully promote growth. Yay!

Friday's token: .35 miles
Saturday's miles: 2.75 miles
Miles out of Hobbiton: 482.4
Miles out of Rivendell: 22.6
Miles to Lothlórien: 443.8

( Also, speculation about LOST )

Ah well, back to the word mines...