Nancy Thorner of Lake Bluff has written a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald to tell them she would rather have a restarted Zion Nuclear Plant in her backyard than accept several proposed wind turbines that would produce just a tiny fraction of the power – if the wind blows from the right direction at the right velocity.
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A couple of days ago, I mentioned Jack Spencer’s analysis of the need for nuclear power if there is going to be a real effort to change the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere. Yesterday, FoxNews published an opinion piece titled Heritage Foundation: Road to Clean Air Runs Through Yucca Mountain that Jack wrote with…
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…
Davic Falchek of the Scranton Times-Tribune web wrote an in-depth look at the past, present and future of nuclear power in Pennsylvania. Here is the link to the article that was published on July 31, 2005. As of 4:57 am on 31 July, the article is simply titled “More News”, but that might change since…
A couple of days ago, Marc Fisher, who operates a blog titled Raw Fisher at the Washington Post, published a commentary titled Mixed greens: How nuclear power splits environmentalists. This post has attracted a significant string of well-reasoned (and a few goofy) comments. I encourage you to visit, read the thread and contribute if you…
Many energy supply commentators profess an outdated view of coal as a low cost fuel with rather steady and predicable prices. That description of the coal market, which had been reasonably accurate for more than a decade before about 2002, became obsolete because of a number of factors. China’s rapid growth Lengthy, maintenance related, shut…
Sometimes the web and its infrastructure provide some interesting surprises. As I have mentioned several times in this blog, one of my many news sources is a daily email from Google Alerts that provides links to every article that it has found in the past 24 hours with the word “Unistar”. That unique search term…
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