Energy Information Agency Katrina status reports
The U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency is posting regular updates on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the nation’s energy products supply and markets.
The U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency is posting regular updates on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the nation’s energy products supply and markets.
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On a number of occasions, I have expressed my view that Yucca Mountain is the right answer to the wrong question. What I mean is that I have no question that burying carefully packaged used fuel assemblies would be a “safe” way to store the by-products of nuclear fission, but I believe that it is…
Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly Online has an interesting report titled Govt to tighten oversight role on state-owned entities that includes a discussion about Eskom’s plans for capital investments. These investments are designed to make up for what is described as a decade or more of under investment in basic infrastructure. The plan, as described to…
I have forgotten to mention an article in World Nuclear News from June 2008 that you might want to keep handy as a reference. It is titled Exploration drives uranium resources up 17%. Here is the lede from that article: Current economic uranium resources will last for over 100 years at current consumption rates, while…
You can all rest easy now the world has an “endless” supply of oil. I know that resource exists because I read it in this week’s issue of BusinessWeek, which is written for hard-working, Type A people who believe that markets can solve anything. I have been working around that kind of person for much…
I spent the majority of the past week at the American Nuclear Society winter meeting held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. I had every intention of adding new material regularly during the conference, but three issues slowed me down. First of all, I came down with a wicked cold that sapped my…
A friend who has heard me discuss my theories about the relationships between mainstream Environmental groups and fossil fuel extraction and marketing companies sent me a link to an article titled Polluted by profit: Johann Hari on the real Climategate. He included a rather amusing subject line on the email “Red meat for Rod” and…