As the Northeast shivers under its first real cold spell and snowfall of the 2005-06 winter, I thought it might be comforting to see a chart of heating oil prices during the past 17 years or so.
What do you mean, you are not comforted? I thought that the heat generated by anger at the chart would help keep you warm!
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Stuff.co.nz published a story dated 8 September 2005 titled Energy minister says no to nuclear power. The occasion for the minister’s rejection was a response to a presentation by Murray Jackson, the chief executive of Genesis at a climate change conference that made a strong statement that nuclear power should be on the list of…
Nigeria is an interesting case of an oil rich but useful energy poor country. It is a major crude oil exporter, but its citizens get by with an average of about 8 watts of electricity, which is about 1/5 of what the light above my computer uses. Apparently, some of the leaders of the country…
On November 2, 2006, I had the privilege of talking with Regis Matzie, Westinghouse Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. The occasion was an interview conducted for The Atomic Show, a weekly (most of the time) podcast hosted by The Podcast Network. Dr. Matzie talked to me about the current status of the Pebble…
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, I had a conversation with John Horgan, the host of Science Saturday for Bloggingheads.tv. John was a long time nuclear skeptic who had expressed his support for President Obama’s initiative to reduce America’s nuclear weapons stockpiles, but his concern for the president’s support for nuclear power plant construction loan guarantees….
I was fortunate enough to attend a sampling of sessions at the Platts Nuclear Energy 2010 meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland from February 17-19. Due to other commitments, I missed the first day, but I did make it to a series of insightful talks by key participants in the resurgent nuclear energy plant construction industry….
A couple of days ago, several of you reported problems with being able to see anything in the right column below my profile. I have made some changes to the code and tested the blog using IE6 running on Windows 2000, which is the combination that seemed to be at issue. (It always worked with…