Just in case you do not read the Alaska Journal on a regular basis, I thought it might be worth providing a link to an interesting story titled Toshiba continues efforts for Galena nuclear power plant. This story did not get much play outside of Alaska, but I think it is a very interesting development…
The Pro-Nuke, Anti-Nuke discussion hosted by Mother Jones’s Blue Marble blog is going pretty strongly now. As of early this morning there were 49 published comments with an undetermined number waiting for approval. When the debate first started, the comments appeared almost immediately, but, not surprisingly, the blog hosts have decided to implement a review…
On Atomic Show #091 I took advantage of the technology provided by Skype to record a cross ocean chat with Alexandra Prokopenko, the blogger behind Atom Watch. Alexandra was in Kiev celebrating the Orthodox Easter and agreed to talk to me about her atomic fact seeking. Alexandra was born in Belarus about 4 years before…
Alexandra Prokopenko is a Belarusian journalist living, working and studying in Sweden. She spoke with Rod Adams while on holiday in Kiev, Ukraine. This show truly demonstrates the individual power and freedom provided to the world by the Internet. While we talked via Skype video conferencing (without additional charges above our internet connection fees) Alexandra…
The Energy Information Agency has recently released a report in response to a Congressional request to put numbers on the subsidies provided to various energy sources. The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital Blog is discussing that report with a post titled At the Trough: A Peak at US Energy Subsidies. The discussion is currently being…
The Blue Marble blog has an interesting concept going that will be worth watching. You might even want to participate. Here is their description of the idea as described on a post dated April 27, 2008 titled Pro-Nuke? Anti-Nuke?: Pro-Nuke? Anti-Nuke? Talk About It With The Experts We asked a futurist, a MoJo writer, a…
In a recent article titled TVA joins Energy Department in nuclear recycling I found the following section worth noting: “If we’re going to have a renewal of nuclear power, which I believe is critically important, TVA can and should play a big role in that future,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, energy and natural resources…
One of my dad’s hobbies when I was growing up was collecting glasses given away by service stations in the days before they became just gas stations that provided little service at all. One of his favorite examples of this art form was a glass with a picture of the Exxon tiger with the slogan…
A regular reader sent me a link to the cover article of the May 12, 2008 edition of The Nation titled What Nuclear Renaissance? That article, written by Christian Parenti, begs response, but I do not feel like spending much time writing a letter to the editor that will have a minor probability of being…
I received an interesting notification from NBC Universal that provided the embed code for a recent appearance by Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Jay Leno on Earth Day. I am usually pretty careful about clicking on links sent in emails, so I verified that the message really was from an NBC publicist before I clicked. I thought…
Bermuda is one of my favorite places of all time to visit. It is the home of pink sand beaches, the world’s shortest drawbridge, a great Maritime Museum, fantastic restaurants, and interesting window shopping. I have been blessed with four visits to the island, three times via sailboats and once via a cruise ship. My…
There is a lot of excitement these days for solar energy plants, with some particular amount of breathless enthusiasm for solar thermal power plants that use concentrating mirrors to add heat to a transfer fluid that is then used to create steam. Some of the technology’s supporters even claim that this kind of system, since…