The New York Times has published an encouraging story about how some Senate Democrats See Nuclear as a Way to Gain Votes on Climate Bill.
It seems that there really is hope for logic and a reasonable political process to work in America.
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I am going to make a few large, unlinked generalizations and provide a rather long winded introduction to an interesting assessment of the potential for shale gas to change the gas game from its volatile history of price peaks and valleys to one of decades worth of low priced gas. If you are short on…
Southern Maryland Newspapers Online has published a article titled Reactor under microscope that provides some interesting details about Constellation Energy’s offer to sell its stake in Unistar to EDF. It describes a letter from Constellation’s Mike Wallace expressing a strong desire on the part of Constellation’s management to encourage and assist with the project, even…
Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation has published an issue paper titled Senate Attempts to Promote Small Nuclear Reactors Fall Short that is worth reading. He notes that the sector is showing some significant private activity already. He expresses concerns that I share that some of what the Senate is proposing will be counter productive…
On this day (December 2) in 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team demonstrated that they knew how to configure a pile of graphite and uranium in such a way as to produce a controlled chain reaction.
I noticed a short article on Page B2 of the June 10, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal titled Edison Unit Cancels Suzlon Order. Something tells me that you will not hear Amory Lovins or Joseph Romm mentioning the technical issue discussed in the article. A quick Google search leads me to believe that…
On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, I attended another Energy Conversation sponsored by a rapidly growing group of US government agencies and interested individuals. (You can find some background information about how these conversations are organized by visiting Energyconversation.org’s “Why it’s important” page.) The organization had invited Amory Lovins to speak about the Defense Science Board’s…
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