Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, is a visionary leader who recognized many years ago that the United States has a tremendous store of methane and other flammable gases in shale formations like the Barnett Shale. He took that knowledge and applied it to building one of the fastest growing energy companies in the…
My Google news alert yesterday pointed me to a story that surprised me. The link description indicated that it was from the St. Petersburg Times and gave a headline telling me that there was some opposition to a nuclear plant expansion. I subscribed to the St. Petersburg Times when I lived on the Florida west…
Last winter, China learned a powerful lesson about the limitations of a heavy dependence on coal fired power. Even in a country where economic expansion takes a back seat to concerns about clean air and where there are huge deposits of the fuel with no near term risk of running out, there are some challenges….
NEI Nuclear Notes pointed me to Angela Saihi, their most recent blogger for nuclear energy. The NEI post did not prepare me to find a professionally produced show titled People and Power with part one of an episode about how the greens went nuclear. You really need to see this. I am looking forward to…
An interview conducted in January 2008 and posted on line ever since is causing a bit of a stir in the blogosphere, on talk radio, and in the mainstream press. Part of the reason for the attention is the fact that some of the states where polls indicate a close balance between the two major…
William Tucker is the author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey. He spoke with Rod Adams about his book on Nov. 2, 2008 William Tucker has been writing about energy issues for decades. He first started following the nuclear energy controversy in the mid 1970s…
Time is running short before I have to leave for my day job, but I wanted to share a link to an interesting article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel titled Nuclear power should be generating a major boost in business. Commentary is welcome.
There are some striking similarities between the campaign of 2008 and that of 1976. Both featured a experienced legislator running against a relative newcomer to the national political stage. In both elections, energy and economics are important campaign issues. In both elections, one candidate has an expansive energy plan that includes efforts to increase the…
William Tucker has written a new book titled Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey. On Atomic Show #112, I spoke with Bill on November 2, 2008 about why he thinks of nuclear power as “terrestrial energy”, why he wrote a book about nuclear power, his efforts…
Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat has a post up that appeals to my vanity in which he introduces another blogger for nuclear energy. Dan’s post sucked me right into to going to that new blog to have a look at what it is saying and where the author is coming from. Neurovore is in school…
There is a discussion worth participation on NEI Nuclear Notes titled Chronicles in Advocacy: Tell It to the Wind. Mark Flanagan found a post that qualifies as a “smoking gun” titled Think again before going nuclear that was published on October 29 by High Country News. Russ Doty wrote the opinion piece that included such…
As a counterpoint to the often repeated claim among anti-nuclear activists that the nuclear industry has not started building any new plants, I want to quote from a MarketWatch.com article reporting on the Shaw Group’s most recent earnings report: J.M. Bernhard Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw, said, … “We enter fiscal…