A good friend sent me a link to an interesting diary on Daily Kos titled “Clean Coal”‘s Dirty Hands?. That diary entry used an article written by Peter Montague, titled INSIGHTS: Carbon Sequestration that provides some very interesting documentation of grants provided by The Joyce Foundation to a number of mainstream environmental organizations. The essential…
I am normally an early to bed, early to rise kind of guy. Any of you who have ever paid much attention to the time stamps on my posts will know just how early that rising part is; usually the “to bed” part happens before 9:00 pm. For the past three nights, I have been…
In mid November former Vice President Al Gore became a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The story has received a lot of attention in the business press; you can find one example on CNNMoney.com titled Al Gore’s next act: Planet-saving VC. The story first appeared in Fortune Magazine. Most…
I have been calling myself a geek for many years, but many of my acquaintances have probably thought of me as a nerd. All of the signs are here – I never played football or baseball, I have worn eyeglasses since I was in the 4th grade, I got good enough grades in high school…
I decided that it might be interesting to see what the Esperanza crew thought about my idea that they could use an AdamsEngineTM. Here is the comment that I made on their most recent blog post by Irene titled Are we there yet?: Irene: I heard about your expedition while listening the interview that Melissa…
Yesterday while on a long bike ride on one of my favorite local routes, I was listening to the NPR Environment Podcast. NPR’s (the initials stand for National Public Radio) description of the show is: Environmental science and reporting on issues from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs. I like listening…
One of the arguments that is often used against new nuclear power plants is that they have the potential to contribute to the spread of nuclear weapons. That charge is debatable, but what is not debatable is the fact that only nuclear reactors can permanently destroy the material that is left over once nuclear weapons…
For many years, I have been involved in discussions with a dedicated group of scientists and engineers who question the basis of our current radiation control limits. According to the way that these people, mostly member of an organization called Radiation, Science and Health, interpret the results of hundreds of carefully conducted studies, the Linear,…
One of the more common arguments on this blog is one about the left-right, conservative-liberal views about atomic energy. I and a number of readers like to caution people that you cannot equate liberal with anti-nuclear any more than you can equate conservative with pro-nuclear. The effort to slow or halt nuclear power developments is…
The popular New York Times blog titled Freakonomics noticed the Wall Street Journal review of Gwyneth Cravens’s book Power to Save the World and produced a post on 21 November 2007 titled Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy. Apparently Stephen J. Dubner, the author of Freakonomics has been thinking and writing quite…
There was a long front page article in the November 19, 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal with a rather scary title: Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production. Though the article described peak oil theory as “an older, often-derided notion”, it provided a convincing amount of support for the theory as I understand…
Spencer Reiss, who often writes about energy for Wired Magazine, published a review of Gwyneth Cravens’s Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy in the November 20, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The value of this review has already been demonstrated to me – I have received several emails mentioning…