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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My friend, David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes pointed out a well written essay by Shannon Love on Chicago Boyz titled Fantasy Energy. Here is a sample from that blog: I think it important to emphasize that we would need to move to nuclear energy even if we had an infinite supply of fossil fuels…
It seems that BNFL’s unions are pretty upset that their employer is planning to sell off the Westinghouse organization. Here is a relevant article from Cumbria Online http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=260225.
Joseph Romm recently published an article at Salon.com titled Nuclear Bomb that attempted to prove that nuclear fission power plants were too expensive to consider building without massive government subsidies. He has apparently failed to understand or acknowledge what is happening in the electrical power industry and in the energy industry in general. He also…
Asahi.com published an article on 23 December titled Westinghouse sale could tilt balance in global nuclear power industry. The story mentions that the final decision for the sale of BNFL’s Westinghouse unit could come next month, and that the final price is now expected to range between 200 and 300 Billion yen. At today’s exchange…
I found this speech in a book titled “The West Virginia Mine Wars.” As far as I know, it is the earliest use of the term “clean coal”, but I am willing to be educated. I am publishing this as a way of getting people to think a bit about the difference between real descriptions…
I ran across an article published on Sunday 13 January 2007 by Times Online titled I pushed Blair’s nuclear button that gives some background on high level discussions leading up to the recent decision by the UK government to include nuclear power as a significant part of its future energy mix. Here is a tantalizing…