In my last post, I mentioned that the spill isn’t just oil, but bunker fuel. What’s bunker fuel? It’s the stuff that runs big engines, like in an oil tanker or cargo ship. And it’s cheap, which is why these high volume users use it. Last year, I interviewed Dave Culp, an engineer who designs [...]
“Crunch!”? Really? A huge cargo ship bumps into the Bay Bridge and spills 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel–not just oil, but bunker fuel–and this is the Chronicle’s headline? Is it supposed to be a joke? When I looked at my copy this morning, I originally thought this was a feature recapping some little disaster that I [...]
Time to clear out the old buffer after a high-content entry. What follows is a photo of mine that’s getting a little bit of attention. I took it at Ocean Beach during sunset on Sunday, February 12.
In Kreuzberg, Germany, you may run across the Fahrradkollectiv Admiralstraße—the Admiral Street Bicycle Collective. They seem to have run across me. “Wernerchen” liked a photo of mine enough to ask if he could put it in rotation as a title image on the Rad-Spannerei blog. I thought that was nice. He tells me: “I change [...]
Today is an awfully nice day, with unusually warm temperatures. It’s probably a signal of the return of La Niña. Expect a drought in the already environmentally unsustainable Southwest this year. The Atlantic’s hurricane season may be better than ever. And San Francisco will probably continue with this mild winter (it was a record 73°F [...]
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