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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Steve Darden at SeekerBlog.com has some thoughts worth a read in his post titled CBO Study: Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity. You might also want to visit the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital Blog post titled Going Nuclear: Will Dems Support Nukes To Fight Climate Change?. That one contains some interesting comments that lead…
Every once in a while I get a little sarcastic. It might get me in trouble one of these days – or should I say it might get me in more trouble one of these days. I follow a Twitter user named NaturalGasFlk who just tweeted about a post on True Blue Natural Gas titled…
Wired Magazine’s Spencer Reiss has long been a supporter of new nuclear power plants. In a recent series of short articles all under the heading of 10 GREEN HERESIES that environmentalists must overcome to succeed in a battle against global climate change, Spencer’s contribution is titled EMBRACE NUCLEAR POWER:Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago (seems like just yesterday) I took a few days off from work, blogging and podcasting to take a hike in the woods. It was a great trip and provided a needed attitude adjustment. Sometimes urban life can get a bit trying. We saw some great scenery and…
As oil reaches price levels never before seen, I have been thinking about an article I wrote a bit more than four years ago. I called it the 760 Million Mile per Gallon Carburetor. Though the article is a bit of a thought piece, the basic idea is that it is possible today, using technology…
I just read another antinuclear rant published by Harvey Wasserman titled America’s Eggshell Nukes. It is not an opinion piece, but a series of lies that uses inflammatory language to cause unwarranted fear of an important energy source. The headline itself is an obvious lie to anyone who has ever seen the details of a…