Brian Paxton is the Managing Director of MBendi Information Services (Pty) Ltd. Brian is a long time energy industry professional currently focusing on providing information about African industry and development, particularly in the energy and mining sectors. Brian Paxton and I talked for about 50 minutes about a wide range of topics related to Africa…
BillH over on freeinidaho.com posted a very interesting comment about recent interest by MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co., a subsidiary of the Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. in some land in Idaho. The holding company has electricity distribution companies in neighboring states and certainly has the financial resources for building nuclear power plants. Go…
MBendi Information Services (Pty) Ltd is a company based in South Africa that is focused on providing business, economic, social, political and industrial information about Africa. All too few Americans and Europeans know much about Africa, its people, its needs and its aspirations. I spoke with Brian Paxton, the Managing Director of MBendi Information Services…
Yesterday I had the chance to read my Wall Street Journal from cover to cover while waiting for a plane. As I often do in such a situation, I paid some attention to the advertisements as well as the articles. On the cover page of the Marketplace section, there was a footer banner ad about…
Two stories this morning illustrate that there is both hope and a lot of work to do if we are going to have a sensible discussion about energy choices in America. Perhaps our lessons are also applicable outside of the country. Many of you have heard about Chuck DeVore’s attempt to put an initiative on…
Thomas Casten, Chairman of Recycled Energy Development LLC has published an article on Energy Pulse titled Mitigating Climate Change: Asking the Right Question. He provides a good analysis of the benefits of smaller power plants that are able to use by-product heat recovery systems. He then compares the climate changing emissions of these systems to…
I apologize for the silence in the past few weeks. I hope that some of you, at least, have been disappointed as days continued to go by without a new episode of The Atomic Show. I have been working hard at several different time consuming tasks recently including getting a new iMac set up and…
One of the great ironies in today’s America is that a two time college drop out and Friends of the Earth campaigner who strongly advocated for increasing coal use is often held up as a hero of the environmental movement while also making a lot of money as a consultant for the natural gas industry, Wal-Mart…