Year: 2007

Disclosure: I own stock in Medis Technologies. I occasionally adjust my holdings as the price increases and decreases. I promise not to trade in this stock for at least 2 weeks after posting this comment. One of my biggest frustrations as a frequent traveler and admitted geek is the search for accessible power for my…

The Tuesday 20 February 2007 issue of the Wall St. Journal included a cover story about the rapid growth in internal energy demands in Iran. According to the article, the rising middle class, abundant supplies of low cost appliances from China and Turkey and a government policy that subsidizes the cost of oil, gas and…

One of the well known characteristics of the Swiss government is its pragmatic approach to decision making. Hope is never their preferred strategy. Recently, instead of hoping that conservation or renewable energy sources would supply their future needs, the Swiss government indicated that it would be building some new gas fired plants as an interim…

As the US government continues to pander to the farm states by subsidizing the price of ethanol and encouraging its use as an energy fuel, our southern neighbors are feeling the pinch. According to a February 1, 2007 article on CNN.com, there have been mass protests over a dramatic rise in the cost of corn…

The Atomic Show Podcast has reached a small milestone by posting its 50th show. Shane and I chatted about the new radiation danger symbol, a new MOX plant in Japan, France’s interest in selling large generation 3 reactors to South Africa, personal conservation methods, and the importance of electricity in aluminum production. In other words,…

The US nuclear industry landscape is changing into something far more dynamic as more people and organizations realize the value of assets and knowledge focused on clean, safe, abundant nuclear energy. I recently learned about Energy Solutions a company that was formed in 2006 by merging together a number of existing companies in the business…

One of the more persistent and frustrating comments that anti-nuclear groups have about nuclear power is that the market has spoken and has rejected the technology. There are lots of complicated responses to those statements, but here is one that is becoming more true – “That statement is OBE (Overcome By Events).” Here is an…

I could not help smiling when I learned that German automakers VW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz had chosen “BLUETECH” as a common label to refer to clean burning, high mileage diesel engine cars and SUVs that can pass emissions tests in all 50 US states. Kind of reminds me of my company slogan: Go Blue.Go Atomic.

Dr. J. Marvin Herndon is an independent scientist who has an understandable, logical explanation for the fact that the Earth’s core has generated large quantities of heat for billions of years and for the fact that the Earth has a magnetic field that fluctuates from time to time. The theory is called the georeactor and…

My daily Google Alert that searches for pebble bed reactors came up with a well written primer on conventional and advanced nuclear power plants this morning. The article was written by Vallana Hill and is titled How Nuclear Plants Work. It is encouraging to see articles like this one appearing in places like Jamaica, where…