A couple of days ago, I shared a video titled I’ve Got the Power that was produced by three middle school students from Racine Wisconsin. That video was C-Span’s grand prize winner in its annual studentcam contest. It beat out more than 1000 competitive submissions, including those submitted in the high school category. Here is…
There are some people who have the ability to turn almost any conversation about fantasy futures into a “boring” discussion involving honest numbers, real physics, material limitations and chemical equations. They are the geeky types who just do not know how to have fun by spinning tales involving perpetual motion, unlimited energy storage systems that…
Suzy Hobbs is a talented artist with a passion for atomic energy. She has created an organization of fellow artists whose mission is to create images that help people understand why there are intelligent, talented engineers, technicians, scientists and teachers who love the idea of using fission to replace fossil fuel combustion in as many…
Suzy Hobbs is the founder of PopAtomic.org, a group of artists whose mission and passion is to use their artistic skills to create images that help people view nuclear energy as something more approachable and worth understanding. She visited The Atomic Show on April 28, 2010 and shared the story of how she developed her…
The Daily Sentinel, Jackson County, Alabama’s oldest newspaper, has published an Our Voice editorial board column titled Area’s future brighter with TVA Bellefonte. The piece describes in detail the potential benefits that will come to their community as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s announcement last week that the company will almost certainly either…
I have been meaning to share something with the world for several months, but never got around to it. Here is the background. Nearly every weekday morning, I exit the Anacostia Freeway onto East Capital Street and cross the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge. At this time of year, my transit into work has me crossing…
During the period between April 12-14, Fortune Magazine sponsored a conference titled Brainstorm Green that brought together a wide range of opinion leaders, environmentalists and business groups. One of the sessions at the conference included a discussion about nuclear energy that featured two representatives from companies seeking loan guarantees, one engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC)…
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has produced a report that concluded that Entergy employees did not lie or intend to mislead investigators. Several employees have been punished anyway and there is a chance that a reliable plant that produces more than $100 million worth of electricity per year without any greenhouse gas emissions will be shutdown…
Yesterday morning, NPR had a segment discussing the controversy over protecting certain portions of the Mojave Desert from solar energy development. It describes how one project developer was planning to grade and level 5500 acres of land and then cover that cleared area with a quarter of a million truckloads of gravel to form the…
Must see video – C-SPAN StudentCam 2010 Grand Prize Winner – ‘I’ve Got The Power’ from Madison Richards
Matthew Wald published a column in the Green Inc. portion of the New York Times on April 20, 2010 titled Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium?. As many of you know, I get have been irked by the way that the industry and the federal regulators have not adequately helped the public to understand…