Stark Choice – Coal or Nuclear
William Tucker has published a column on The American Enterprise web site titled Global Warming Dilemma – Coal or Nuclear?.
It is short, succinct and correct. Check it out.
William Tucker has published a column on The American Enterprise web site titled Global Warming Dilemma – Coal or Nuclear?.
It is short, succinct and correct. Check it out.
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There is a very interesting press release on BusinessWire.com titled “Florida PSC Approves FPL’s Fuel Cost Adjustment for 2006 Bills, Reflecting Volatile Global Fuel Costs and Hurricane Impacts in the Gulf I highly recommend that you read it carefully and consider just how large the electric fuel business is, even in a limited service territory…
There was a bit of encouraging news coming from South Carolina during the earning season. SCANA Corporation, the only Fortune 500 corporation in the state, issued a presentation that included a progress report on its V. C. Summer New Nuclear Deployment (NND) project. Here is an extract of that presentation showing the original budget, the…
There is an interesting controversy brewing in southern California, the land of eternal smog. The city’s Department of Water and Power, which now produces about 40% of its electricity by burning coal, has identified some renewable sources of emission free power in the desert to the east of the city. There is some sun out…
Arstechnica has a story titled Nuclear power? Yes please! inspired by a session titled Keeping the Lights on: The Revival of Nuclear Energy for Our Future held on February 14, 2009 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago. Apparently the writer has been mulling over the topics discussed during…
I realize that I get a rather biased view of the world because I specifically search out articles about certain new nuclear plant projects and about energy topics in general. That said, it seems that there is a growing confluence of factors leading to an increasing probability that there will be a lot of new…
Energy Alberta recently made a presentation to the Stelmach (Ed Stelmach is the Premier of Alberta) government to teach them a little more about nuclear power and its potential benefits to the province. The company is in the early stages of planning for a two unit CANDU 6 reactor power station that will produce 2200…