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Don Hoffman is one of my heroes – a nuclear leader who recognizes threat from natural gas

August 31, 2012 By Rod Adams

Donald Hoffman is one of the few entrepreneurs in the nuclear industry. His company, Excel Services, has been a profitable professional services provider to the nuclear industry for more than 25 years. Don is a leader who is willing to take calculated risks and also willing to recycle his profits back into his industry. Most […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Fracking, Natural Gas

Helping “The Sky is Pink” go viral

July 27, 2012 By Rod Adams

THE SKY IS PINK by Josh Fox and the GASLAND Team from JFOX on Vimeo. I am unapologetic about my support for developing more nuclear energy so that we can use less fossil fuel. Methane is a valuable, naturally occurring, fuel source, but extracting it at the rate that oil and gas marketers desire is […]

Filed Under: Fracking, Natural Gas

IQ2 Debate – No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom is Doing More Harm Than Good

July 5, 2012 By Rod Adams

Intelligence Squared US, an Oxford style debate program modeled after a London program of the same name, recently chose to discuss the following motion – No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom is Doing More Harm Than Good. Here is a link to the archived video of the debate. It was fascinating for an energy […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas

How will falling petroleum prices affect US shale play production “boom”

June 12, 2012 By Rod Adams

North Dakota recently passed Alaska as the second leading oil producing state in the United States. It boasts one of the lowest unemployment totals in the nation, a fact that is driven by the state’s small population and very large job of building the infrastructure required to extract oil from the Bakken shale formation. That […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking

ExxonMobil is betting that natural gas will NOT remain cheap

April 18, 2012 By Rod Adams

During my recent low production periods for new posts on Atomic Insights, I received some well intentioned advice from a frequent commenter – he told me that it would be less frustrating for me to maintain Atomic Insights if I focused more on innovations in nuclear energy than on the efforts of competitive energy suppliers […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas

Beware of the purveyors of the “cheap gas forever” myth

April 3, 2012 By Rod Adams

Natural gas wellhead prices (US monthly) 1973-2012

Both John Rowe, the retired chief executive at Exelon, and Aubrey McClendon, the current chief executive at Chesapeake Energy, would love to create a situation where “everyone” believed that cheap natural gas is going to last for a long time. My assertion is that “cheap” natural gas – which is actually only available in North […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking

Natural gas is not clean, not cheap, not better for climate

February 10, 2012 By Rod Adams

Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious science publications, has published an article that should give natural gas promoters in the environmental community an enormous dose of indigestion. It provides scientific evidence supported by hard data measurements that the act of extracting and “producing” natural gas for consumption releases enough methane into the atmosphere to […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas

ExxonMobil aiming to capture growth in US electricity market

January 24, 2012 By Rod Adams

On January 9, 2012, The Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University held a hydrofracking workshop. The organizers invited a number of speakers from both industry and academia to discuss a contentious, but important energy issue from a variety of perspectives. You can read about the workshop on TheGreenGrok on a post titled Minds […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas, Smoking Gun

Gasland II coming to HBO just in time to influence 2012 elections

December 9, 2011 By Rod Adams

Natural Gas Watch has published a fascinating interview with Josh Fox, the creator of the often mentioned documentary about the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) titled Gasland. Fox is well into the production cycle for a sequel titled Gasland II; he described the difference between filming the first movie as an unknown documentarian and making […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas

Debating a natural gas booster about nuclear competition

December 5, 2011 By Rod Adams 8 Comments

My discussion with Robert Bradley at Master Resource regarding the relative value of investments in natural gas generation versus nuclear generation continues to result in some interesting exchanges worth additional visibility and comment. Here are some of the recent posts: Robert Bradley { 12.03.11 at 9:47 pm } Rod: $4/MMBtu natural gas–how can nuclear compete […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas, New Nuclear

Energizing pro-nuclear activists to do battle

November 24, 2011 By Rod Adams

US Energy Consumption by source 1775-2010

On November 22, 2011, I spoke to the student ANS chapter at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. It was a fairly compact, but enthusiastic gathering of bright individuals who have recently decided to make a career in nuclear technology. Some are interested in nuclear medicine, some in the materials used in nuclear reactors, and […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Nuclear Communications

Boom times in North Dakota

November 21, 2011 By Rod Adams

The Bakken Shale formation near Williston, North Dakota is fueling a rapid oil boom and change in lifestyle for the residents. Oil production in North Dakota is nearing a half a million barrels of oil per day (in a nation that consumes roughly 19 million barrels of oil per day during a recession and a […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fracking

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