I want a nuclear plant in my backyard. So do some of my neighbors

Watch more video from the CNN channel on Frequency Though I sometimes suffer from the blues, I am not crazy — I swear. Even though I am just a guy who often blogs in my PJs, I’m also pretty sure that I am not a nobody. In fact, none of us are nobodies, we are…

OPEC analysis – is there room for all of the oil the cartel can produce?

In the above video, Richard Swan, director of Platts global oil news, offers some keen insights about the world’s oil markets and the importance of OPEC in balancing supply and demand to establish a price that is “acceptable” to both consuming and producing nations. OPEC has a long running goal of trying to ensure that…

European broadcasters shun Pandora’s Promise; It contradicts their prior investments

At the end of September 2013, Robert Stone was interviewed about Pandora’s Promise by Société Française d’Energie Nucléaire (SFEN). During that interview, he described his inability to convince a single European broadcaster — outside the UK — to show his documentary. According to Stone, representatives of broadcasting companies throughout the EU have told him that…

On Plutonium, Nuclear War, and Nuclear Peace

By NNadir I trust — and I hope I am justified in this — that no one wants a nuclear war. I know I don’t. We already have a set of environmental problems that are worse than a limited nuclear war, and may be facing an environmental crisis that might be as dire as a…