User talk:RockyMtnGuy

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[edit] Domestic AC power plugs and sockets

I see you've been active at Domestic AC power plugs and sockets, which is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. If you can help us address the issues raised on the FAR, perhaps the article's featured status can be retained. Regards, Sandy 13:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lost status

Hi Rocky. The page lost status today and I thought I'd stop by and say that it wasn't for lack of trying on your part. The review had been up six weeks and there wasn't a whole lot happening on the page, so I felt it was time to close it one way or another. The last comments had tilted it toward remove. It still remains a damn comprehensive page on the topic—perhaps consider trying for Featured list as was suggested in the review. The nature of the topic may be more given to a list.

Hope all is well in the Rockies; wish I were home for the Canadian autumn. Marskell 10:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Light Rail

To clarify a few points you made in the notes to your edits on the light rail in North America page:

  1. (cur) (last) 02:09, 18 October 2006 RockyMtnGuy (Talk | contribs) (→Criticisms of light rail in the U.S. - You can design an LRV to go 160 km per hour. You can go 160 km/hr in your car, too, but some policeman will stop you (except in Germany).)
  • Light rail's being too slow to compete with the automobile is based on 1) time to get to and from nearest light rail stations at each end and 2) travel times owing to many stops made. I know driving is far faster than my commute to work on Boston's Green line, but then again it has to wait for lights. Additional point, most light rail systems have max speeds of around 50-60mph since the small distance between stops limits the system from getting up to higher speeds.
  1. (cur) (last) 02:06, 18 October 2006 RockyMtnGuy (Talk | contribs) (→Criticisms of light rail in the U.S. - And why would the US, with 300 million people, 80% of whom are within 50 miles of the coast, be more spatially disadvantaged than Germany? Provide details.)
  • This argument refers to the sprawling low-density layout of America cities. Or more specifically, its suburbs. No matter where you run a rail in suburbia, you won't be walking distance from a large population.
  1. (cur) (last) 01:34, 18 October 2006 RockyMtnGuy (Talk | contribs) (→Travel time - Three points. Is it the US second busiest LRT line, does it carry 70,000 passengers/day (sounds low), and in Hotel California you can check out but you can never leave?)
  1. (cur) (last) 01:20, 18 October 2006 RockyMtnGuy (Talk | contribs) (→Travel time - First sentence sounds dubuious. Cars in major U.S. cities average about 12 mph during rush hour. LRT running at half that rate sounds like a major design screwup.)
  • LRT makes many stops, and if it runs in the street, still must wait in traffic, though, if on its own right of way, I'd expect better speeds during congested highway jams.

--Loodog 04:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

To conspiracy nuts or just those that avoid some possible facts: Please look at substance & stop bringing up ad hominem fallacies & source of bread. If there really is truth in the streetcar conspiracy, mention those points, not just GM. If you really want to look at ideology: http://www.aynrand.org/ http://www.petersoninstitute.org/ http://www.ti.org/ http://www.pacificresearch.org/

"This guy can't say anything valid because he... or some of his money comes from..." Get real. Get an open mind. And don't be a socialist. By the way, do you buy any of the types of products that are offered by the companies that are slandered? 68.180.38.31 (talk) 15:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I have a hard time believing that you are educated. When you quote sourcewatch & exxonsecrets.

I get paid by _________. Does that mean that anything I say is false & supported by that company. I really pity your thought process. 68.180.38.31 (talk) 15:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oil shale

Hi Rocky. You seems to knew a lot about non-conventional oil resources. Maybe you would like to check the article about oil shale, particularly the information related to Canada. Thank you in advance. Beagel 05:42, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I listed Oil shale for the new peer review and related spin-off articles (Oil shale extraction, Oil shale geology, Oil shale industry, History of the oil shale industry, Oil shale reserves, Oil shale economics, and Environmental effects of oil shale industry) for the peer review. Your comments and edits will be most welcome. The intention is to have these articles ready for the GA and FA nominations.Beagel 17:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I see you removed some statistics that I added to the Tar Sands page yesterday. You're clearly much more qualified to write about Tar Sands oil extraction than most, but I saw your comment when you deleted the stats and I was wondering where you verified that the information was faulty, just out of general curiousity and for future reference. Thanks Jcrav2k6 (talk) 16:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I checked the article that was cited and found the journalist who wrote it had not a clue what he was talking about. Since was completely off-topic, I decided that deleting it was easier than fixing it. By the way, you used an anonymous ID to edit it rather than the one you're using now.
The author of the article seems to be based in London and apparently has never been to Canada, never mind the oil sands. In fact, I know a lot more about what is going on than he does. Unbeknownst to him, the project he was writing about is a new technique called steam assisted gravity drainage, which involves no mining and only about 0.2 m3 of water consumption per m3 of oil production rather than the 5 cited (which would be for a mining operation circa 1960).
I added some information to the article, including a citation of a government paper which is somewhat more relevant. The reality is quite different from what is in the popular media. It's not really "pristine wilderness" and there are reasons why there weren't many people living there. The forest has almost completely been destroyed by forest fires, it's unbelievably cold in winter, there's little soil fertility, the lakes are almost devoid of fish, and the rivers are contaminated by oil because the oil sands have been leaking into them for thousands of years.
In fact, the government doesn't really want companies to restore the natural environment, it wants them to improve on it, which is not hard. They turn it into grazing land, put some buffalo on it, set up a few picnic tables, and make it look lovely. Something like someone from London would consider pristine wilderness. RockyMtnGuy (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scotford Upgrader

Hi and a Happy New Year. There is a new article about Scotford Upgrader. Maybe you would like to take a look and expand it. Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 19:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year. I clarified the operation somewhat (the Upgrader takes bitumen from the Muskeg River Mine and sends syncrude to the Scotford Refinery), and added a bit more on the process. Of course, this means we need articles on the Muskeg River Mine and Scotford Refinery, as well... Cheers, RockyMtnGuy (talk) 22:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Arthur Oliver Wheeler.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Arthur Oliver Wheeler.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 17:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Permission to reuse on Wikipedia has been granted by the Alpine Club of Canada. However, under Canadian copyright law it is in the public domain because it was taken prior to 1949-01-01, and thus nobody requires permission to use it. American copyright law is very annoying, and an infringement on the rights of Canadians. We in Canada are lobbying to pass legislation of a completely different nature, which would benefit academic researchers, unlike American copyright law which benefits only giant multinational corporations. So far, we have shot down a couple of attempts by different governments to pass American-like legislation, and we have a fairly major on-line revolt in progress. For more information, see http://www.digital-copyright.ca/ RockyMtnGuy (talk) 18:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] JACOS

Hi, Rocky. There is a new article about Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited (JACOS). This article is quite messy and currently nominated for deletion. However, I think this article is worth to be improved. I hope you could help as you have more knowledge about the subject.Beagel (talk) 07:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Petroleum

Hi, Rocky, I've just looked in on the Petroleum article and found out that the silly mis-statement on its composition has been changed, and a little research has led me to your edit on the 12 Jan. Congrats.
I've been in fact contemplating for some time to make this change, but I was going to add a few words on Caracterisation Factors and crude types as well.
Searching Google on Petroleum Classification gave me the reference of the notes of Weidong Gu on the lectures of Dr.Semih Eser, Associate professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering and Mr. A.J. Brandt, Teaching assistant,http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/y/wyg100/fsc432/lecture%203.htmalteration (Notes last updated in 2001) but the hypertext contact http://www.eme.psu.edu/~eser/CHE432/ is unattainable. so I could not ask for permission to present his triangle diagram and data. I am not even certain if such permission is needed. If not, the diagram could be usefully included. If my memory serves me right The Science of Petroleum (bible) of several volumes also contains the info (I don't have access to it). User:H Padleckas has made an even nicer diagram, but it has not been uploaded onto the Commons for fear of licence probs. What do you think? LouisBB (talk) 07:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

As I understand it, people cannot copyright facts, nor can they copyright raw data as such. They can only copyright the representation of such data, and the representation must have some artistic merit to be copyrightable. This means, for instance, that the telephone company can copyright the telephone directory, but it cannot copyright the names and numbers in it since there is no artistic merit in simple tables. So, someone else can issue their own telephone directory using the telephone company's data, as long as they make it look somewhat different. So, IMHO, an "even nicer diagram" would be a completely different work and subject to its own copyright. It's all about art, not data. RockyMtnGuy (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

More to the point, people like to use stuff from the US Government because the US Government is prevented - by Statute - from copyrighting any of its work product. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 15:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oil units

Hi, Rocky. There is going on a discussion about conversion of oil units. I think that your opinion would be valuable.Beagel (talk) 17:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] COMPLAINERS VERSUS COLLABORATORS

    • I have to agree with your complaint about the quality of the net Nannies you find here. My experiences parallel your in that a lot of people here spend more time looking for things to complain about than to get their hands dirty helping to do some writing and research. I work in the transit industry, so I can help from time to time. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 14:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Howdy, just a note of appreciation for your recent work - barrel, Athabasca Oil Sands, & Oil reserves. Thanks! Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 18:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Bakken comment

Hello, someone asked a question here which I tried to answer, but you may know more about the topic (especially the Canadian side). Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 19:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

Your most recent changes in Oil Reserves helped to strengthen the article considerably. 198.151.13.8 (talk) 15:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question for you about current production ammounts

Hi, an anon IP brought up an interesting Ref at Talk:Peak oil. It seems last night some billionare oil man T. Boone Pickens claimed on the radio that production is at 85mb/d while demand is at 87mb/d (no word on whether or not he was just referring to sweet crude or what). If you have some insight, could you please comment on that talk page? Thanks, NJGW (talk) 00:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)