As a reminder, the words “smoking gun” in a blog title here at Atomic Insights means that the post will be about a direct attack on the use of nuclear fission by someone who represents one of its many energy supply competitors – oil, coal, natural gas or one of the weaker alternative energy sources….
When I posted a short post about Bonneville Power Administration’s recent record setting “hour of power” one of you posted a link to a web site that provides a near real time view of the last 8 days of the system wind power output versus the total system demand. If you are ever curious about…
The Clean Skies News Energy Report: Afternoon Edition of August 17, 2009 concluded with a report about a wind electricity production record set on August 6, 2009. The video from that report is posted below. It is clipped from the report, but otherwise unedited. I am sharing it with you under the site’s Creative Commons…
If you live near the Washington coast southwest of Puget Sound and have some free time in the afternoon on August 24, 2009, I encourage you to take a trip to Grays Harbor and sit in on the regularly scheduled Public Utility District (PUD) Board of Commissioners Meeting. If you attend, you will be able…
The first three units of the first German off-shore wind farm have gone operational. It apparently ran into some First of a Kind (FOAK) challenges that provide some interesting numbers. When complete, the facility will include 12 very large turbines that each have a maximum power capacity in optimum wind of 5 MW. Based on…
Robert Margolis and Rod Adams engage in a panel of two (August is a slow month for news and a tough month to find guests) discussion about the 150 year anniversary of the first oil well in America, nuclear energy development plans in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, the responsibilities of a start up…
It is becoming apparent that the establishment Environmental community has made its bed with the natural gas industry. In the above video, you will see and hear Carl Pope, the long time Executive Director of the Sierra Club and its future Chairman, extolling the virtues of natural gas. He talks about how abundant it is…
Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat posted a must read blog titled Obama’s climate policy needs nuclear energy. At first I thought it was going to be a discussion about the recent Energy Information Administration’s analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate legislation that indicated that the only way that the targets could be met without vast energy…
I have finally worked my way through nearly 3 hours of the town hall meeting at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 held on August 10, 2009 in Las Vegas Nevada. The panel included John Podesta, President and CEO of Center for American Progress, Al Gore, Harry Reid, T. Boone Pickens and Cathy Zoi, Assistant…
It has been more than a month since the last show. Many apologies. Dan Yurman and Charles Barton agreed to help me get back into the rhythm by chatting for a while about current atomic events. We discussed a recent Moody’s special report on companies considering new nuclear power plants – not very positive, TVA…
Several times in the past week, I have pointed out just how much money is involved in pushing people to act in certain ways in response to the threat of global climate change. It seems so obvious to me that the most useful tool in shifting our economy to sustainability without emitting carbon dioxide into…
Forbes Magazine has a cover story designating ExxonMobil as the “Green Company of the Year”. The basis for that designation is the soon-to-be-completed liquified natural gas (LNG) project in Qatar. That project will produce 9.9 Billion cubic feet per day of natural gas in a form that can be shipped around the world from one…