The Christian Science Monitor has published an article by Mark Clayton titled If winter is bitter, brace for a natural-gas crunch. The article details some of the effects that might occur because of hurricane damage to natural gas pipelines and production facilities combined with the trend in the past ten years to focus nearly all new power plant investment on natural gas burning power plants to the exclusion of other fuel alternatives.
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After posting my comment about the Washington Times review of Jeff Goodell’s “Big Coal”, I wanted to find a different point of view. Google found a good one at Sustainablog: Big Coal: Empire of Denial published back on June 4, 2006. Sorry I missed this one when it was written, I could have had the…
About a week ago, I posted a link to a discussion about the world’s energy situation hosted by The Economist. One of the scheduled featured debaters was Joe Romm. I assumed that he would provide commentary that strongly discouraged the use of nuclear power – that is his normal position. I was wrong and apologize….
NPR produced a story yesterday about the fight over electricity fuel market share between natural gas and coal. Interestingly enough, both fuels have been extracted for many years from the same area in Northern Colorado. The NPR story provides some voices of real people that share their views of the effects of the market battle…
The artists at PopAtomic Studios continue to provoke thoughts with imagery. The above image is available in full resolution from Fossil Fuels are Dead. Stop by to tell Suzy and her team what you think of their work!
Sometimes I forget just how many people have recognized that there is a potential market for smaller nuclear power plants. A friend of mine sent me a link recently to an excellent summary of the publicly available information about a myriad of projects from more than a dozen different countries. You can find the article…
A friend who reads Atomic Insights suggested that I would enjoy watching the below videos based on my recent comments about how “the dose makes the poison” when it comes to the health effects of low levels of exposure to radiation and other potential hazards. He was right – this is a well done, valuable…