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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In Northwest Alabama there is growing interest in the prospect of new jobs tied to the Second Atomic Age. According to an article titled Nuclear future published on November 6, 2006, there is the potential for 90,000 new jobs associated with building new reactors during the period from 2007-2011. The source of that estimate, according…
In a comment related to my previous post titled Why is “waste” such a large topic WRT nuclear energy a reader mentioned that there are some clean up issues related to uranium mining. I will post some information about that particular topic sometime in the future, but I just happened to be browsing over on…
In mid November former Vice President Al Gore became a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The story has received a lot of attention in the business press; you can find one example on CNNMoney.com titled Al Gore’s next act: Planet-saving VC. The story first appeared in Fortune Magazine. Most…
Annual Energy Outlook 2006 from the US Energy Information Agency is available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html. I make a lot of use of the annual reports, but I recognize that the future projections are very iffy. The report authors understand their limitations as seers and caution report readers to evaluate the scenarios presented with a good understanding…
As part of my preparations for a final post of 2010, I reviewed my 2010 Google Analytics results. For reasons that I cannot quite understand, a short post I published more than five years ago showed up as third on the hit list. Perhaps I just discovered a catchy title. Here is a updated version…
American Clean Skies Foundation, Worldwatch Institute, and the U. N. Foundation sponsored a panel discussion titled The Evolving Role of Natural Gas. Panelists include: Holmes Hummel, Senior Advisor for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy Ian Smale, Group Head, Strategy and Policy, BP Dr. J.K. (Jorg) Gigler, Manager, Sustainability and Clean Energy, KEMA…
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