We’ve got the whole world in our hands Humans shape the environment that we live in. It’s plain and simple, and there’re really no getting around that. But, as with anything, there are degrees of impact. Something...
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Sarah Simonovich
Industrial Coatings — The Dark Horse of the Petroleum Industry
PSC just recently announced that we’d be carrying two products, Tectyl 435D and Tectyl 437D, in 5 gallon pails. When the announcement was made, a whole slew of PSC staff members tried to sound and look excited, but...
JJ
DIY: A Guide on How to Change Your Vehicle’s Engine Oil
DIY oil change In the debate of changing your own oil versus going to the shop to have it done, there’s a lot to consider: do you have the time, equipment, the know-how? What’s the real cost of each? What are the...
The Problem With Petroleum — Crying Over Spilled Oil
It’s hurting both your profits and the earth – but as a natural substance, why do the various ecosystems of the globe (including our own society) respond so negatively to spilled oil? Oil waste – though, perennially, a...
Fuel as Food? It seems that not all oils are created equal.
Rarely do the sentiments of YouTube commenters so uniformly align. Refrained variations of the same consideration that you, indeed, “can’t drink gasoline,” because “you’ll die, (of course)” crowd the comments section...
The Art of Oil: Turning Petroleum into a New Medium
Oil Paintings What comes to mind when you hear of or think of oil paintings? Da Vinci? Rembrandt? Van Gogh? It’s doubtful that you actually think of oil, as in motor oil. Because oil paintings are done with a different...
Petrochemicals: Clearing the Name of Petroleum One Product at a Time
Planet Earth runs on Petrol It’s no exaggeration to say that the world runs on petroleum—and no, I don’t just mean automobiles. Petroleum is everywhere, even in places where you least expect it. And while new...
Black Oil: How THE X-FILES Made Petroleum Spooky
“Are you familiar with the so-called X-Files?” Sunday (January 24) marked the return of The X-Files, a science-fiction, horror, procedural drama that originally aired from September 10, 1993 to May 19, 2002...
One really strange scene from the STAR WARS Saga
A new Star Wars film in theaters is roughly the media-equivalent of the Christmas Truce of 1914 — tonight, enemies from either side of the Force will yet again join hands to witness the continuation of a global...
Pitch, and the World’s Longest Active Science Experiment
You might find it hard to believe, but there is a science project that’s been ongoing since 1927 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Known as the Pitch Drop Experiment, scientists and observers...
Matthew Blockus