Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes. The count went from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010. Those numbers grew alongside a boom in the state’s natural gas drilling industry. There is now a heap of peer-reviewed research finding that […]
When government and industry dismiss your product, where do inventors turn?
John Brinkman says he’s often greeted with a cynicism when he tries to sell the oil industry on the benefits of his oil spill clean up product “We get lumped in with everyone else. People think, ‘here comes another snake oil salesman.’ But then it turns out to be better than sliced bread,” says Brinkman, […]