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Time is running short before I have to leave for my day job, but I wanted to share a link to an interesting article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel titled Nuclear power should be generating a major boost in business. Commentary is welcome.

The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times published a column on October 10, 2005 by Robert Trigaux titled “Drilling and nukes stir narry a worry”. The column starts with the intriguing question of “Where’s all the outrage?” The premise of the article is that people in Florida, at least, have realized that high energy prices provide grounds…

The above video is inspiring, seductive and well produced. It makes a number of important points, but it is missing at least three key elements that would change it from being a vision that is as unreachable as a mirage to something that is tangible, optimistic and achievable. Those elements are uranium, thorium and plutonium…

Have you ever been in a room where there are dozens, or even hundreds of people, who are involved in a heated discussion about seemingly intractable topics like producing reliable energy without producing air pollution, producing compact energy that can push ships and locomotives in a world of rapidly depleting petroleum, or figuring out how…

Several days ago, I blogged about an article in The Economist that profiled Amory Lovins and talked about his “frugal” vision for the world’s energy supply system. In the thread of comments attached to that post a reader named Gordon provided commentary indicating that he was a true believer in the “soft energy path” that…

The Heritage Foundation published a blog titled Less Is More for Energy In Bush’s Budget on February 4, 2008. The entry talks about the budget items submitted by the Administration for energy in 2009. Heritage likes the idea of spending large sums of money on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and likes the fact that…