Luke Weston at Physical Insights has produced a valuable and detailed post about the Australian coal industry’s research and marketing efforts in the field of carbon capture and sequestration. Go read it – perhaps twice – before getting excited about the prospects for “clean coal”.
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Alternative Energy Holdings, Inc. has acquired the rights to about 4,000 acres of land on the Snake River in Idaho where it is investigating the possibility of building a new nuclear power plant to serve markets in the Pacific Northwest and California. (See Start-up company pursues plan for nuke plant near Bruneau)Though the site is…
I mentioned a few days ago that I was going to be attending the ANS Student Conference at Texas A and M. I promised myself that I would try to produce some on the site blogs, but it is always difficult to find the time to produce a good entry during a conference. There are…
Kirk Sorensen, a good friend of mine, brought his three daughters and lovely wife to the American Nuclear Society annual meeting. During a session focused on education and public communications, there was a scheduled talk about a program in Texas aimed at encouraging high school aged girls with excellent math and science skills to remain…
One of the arrows often slung against nuclear fission power is that the technology is only useful in extra large sizes. For people of the small is beautiful mentality, that thought provides a strong negative connotation and a reason for battling against the forces of wealth and power represented by centralized power stations. (Of course,…
In the wake of the EU energy report, Angela Merkel has reaffirmed that her government will stand by the deal that they made with their coalition partners when she was elected. Her party will not back out of the agreement to begin shutting down nuclear power plants. However, she apparently is working hard to convince…
The Sun News MyrtleBeach Online web site published an interesting editorial on 29 December 2005 titled Green vs. Nuclear. I like the subtitle even better – “Renewable energy can’t come close to meeting S.C. near-term power demand”. The editorial writer seems to take some serious pride in the fact that South Carolina might be the…
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