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Oil Painting Tutorials Beginners Guide 1.1 (Windows)

There are some basics every beginning artist should know. In this 'Beginners Guide' I talk about all the different stumbling points that you may encounter when you first start with oil painting, so that you know what you can expect when you start painting with oils. When you know those...

Tags: Oil, Microsoft Windows, Fortvna Media

Software downloads 2009-06-26

Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?

One environmental organization thinks it could be the rare earth elements needed to make high tech devices from batteries to LEDs. From MRI scanners to catalytic converters. Here's NRDC's look at the source of these materials and the environmental cost of exploiting them. Bet you can guess...

Tags: China, Earth, Oil, Scanners, Engineering, Hardware, Peripherals, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

Don't even imagine the oil age is overSo lets just keep poluting our own environment?Oh sure we can try to drill for oil out at sea, but we still can't ship this stuff around without spilling it, and there are people that want to punch a hole in the ocean...

Tags: oil, barrel

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

iAroma 1.1 (Mobile)

Step into the world of aromatherapy. Based on centuries of knowledge this application will literally make you smell better. Aromatherapy is based on the application of essential oils which are highly concentrated extracts of the essence of nature. iAroma is the comprehensive guide on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Using...

Tags: Oil, Mobile, Apple iTunes, PEVANA, Aromatherapy, iAroma, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-16

Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities

It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the land, POTUS and VPOTUS, oil was happy but gasoline buyers were not. ...

Tags: Oil, Coal, Petroleum, Pity, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Innovation, Biofuel, Oil, Video, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

Will cheap oil affect green innovation?Protection from CompetitionHow innovative can the green fuels be if they are protected from competition by having their customers forced to use them?RE: Will cheap oil affect green innovation?What cheap oil ?

Tags: Leadership, cheap oil, oil, innovation

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation

Videos 2009-02-12

Oil isn’t over

Oil isn’t overThe cost of alternative fuels depends directly on cost of oil.So how much would a barrel of oil cost to recover from this massive find?Good newsI seem to remember that some of us have been saying the same thing for awhile now, only to be shouted down during...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, barrel, Oil Industry, tax

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Oil isn't over

One Texas oil company is finding ever more oil in the deep sea. Andarko announced another successful test well southwest of New Orleans under nearly a mile of water. Here's Andarko's press release on the find in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil, itself is another four miles...

Tags: Oil, Barrel, Canada, Andarko, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-02

What's red, white and blue, and green all over?

What's red, white and blue, and green all over?I've said it before, and I'll say it again.Obama will spend billions on alternative energy and in four years we will be more dependent on foreign oil than we are today.Bookmark it.Better than spending a trillion dollars in Iraq for nothingAlternative energy...

Tags: foreign oil, oil, nuclear energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Obama's push for alternative energy

Obama's push for alternative energyYou read it here firstAfter four years of Obama as president, we will have spent billions and billions on alternative energy with the end result that we will be more reliant on foreign oil than we are now.Obama is building US an express lane to ZimbabweFasten...

Tags: Obama, oil, foreign oil, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Batteries to store wind energy

Batteries to store wind energyWhat a novel idea!!!Batteries can store energy! What a novel idea! Why didn't anybody think of that before! SARCASMUmm, yeah, I think 99% of people you talk to would already know that it's a good idea to store energy in batteries during off-peak hours.Now the question...

Tags: Engineering, wind energy, battery

Discussion threads 2008-12-27

Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product...

Tags: Free Trade, Finance, biofuel, green, oil, vegetable, waste, diesel, gas, reactors, carbon, technology

Videos 2008-12-05

Oil and Gas 1.0 (Mobile)

An easy way to Find the Latest Oil and the US National Gas Price Average. With Oil and Gas, you can view the current oil price trading on the NYMEX and the average US national gas price per gallon for regular unleaded.

Tags: Oil, Mobile, Price, Joachim Bean, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-11-24

Oil and Gas Facilities Company Enhances Business Operations Through Resilient Data Network

Petrofac wanted to enhance business productivity by implementing a state-of-the-art, highly resilient network and data centre in Petrofac's brand new HeadQuarters HQ building. Petrofac deployed an actively resilient network built on Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s at the core and Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5520s at the edge. Issue resolution,...

Tags: Data Network, Oil, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Strategic Planning, Networking, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-10-09

Biotech for food, fuel

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy, crops, chemicals

Videos 2008-09-18

Drill, baby, drill--revisited

Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...

Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last decade or so. And in the process America’s newspaper debunks some stupid policy issues on the subject...

Tags: Oil, Enterprise Software, NAM, Manufacturing, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Robot buoy to track oil spills

Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...

Tags: Oil, Buoy, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-03