The Energy Collective has an article titled Why We Must Make Clean Energy Cheap that has generated a thoughtful discussion. I encourage you to read through the comments and perhaps add your own contribution to the exchange.
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There are already tributes being paid to the long career and many contributions of Paul Newman. One activity that will probably not be mentioned in most media is Paul Newman’s sustained efforts to share information about nuclear energy and to promote its use through his Newman-Wachs racing team. Here are other articles detailing some of…
A small group of investors made a bet last year that the spread between the cost of natural gas fired electricity and the cost of electricity from coal and nuclear power plants would increase. They recently cashed in on the bet, netting a profit of almost $5 BILLION on a $900 million dollar investment. The…
There is an article in the Chicago Tribune titled Chicago’s ‘green’ promise fades: Chicago taxpayers on hook for carbon credits that do little to fight global warming that tells the story of the city purchasing carbon offsets from a plant burning wood waste from the forest products industry. People like Joe Romm are expressing disappointment…
As a student of the electrical power industry’s history, I have found many stories of a long running competition between public and private power suppliers. For most of my life, this discussion has been rather muted, with private forces seeming to have conquered the battlefield. The vast majority of the electrical power in the US…
I came across a great news story on timesunion.com about the controversy surrounding the Indian Point nuclear power station titled NY plant finds support at public meeting. There was a recent public meeting to discuss Entergy’s appeal of a ruling by the state Department of Environmental Conservation which denied Indian Point a water use permit…
On January 30. 2011, Bill Loveless of Platts Energy Week interviewed Kevin Book of Clearview Energy Partners and Matthew Armstrong of Bracewell and Giuliani to get their reaction to the recent announcement that Josh Fox’s Gasland had received an Oscar nomination for best documentary film. The interview is worth watching, perhaps more than once, to…
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