Patrick asked: In “The 760 Million Mile Per Gallon Carburetor” what was your point? Are you claiming that the fossil fuel industry and car manufacturers are NOT working together to make cars that use more fossil fuel? In sales you can do three things to increase profitability: Increase the number of people who use your…
Health Effects of Low Level Radiation: When will we acknowledge the reality?
Several people have either sent email or made a comment on the Atomic Insights Blog about the factors that limit reactor fuel consumption (burnup). Here is one of the questions with my answer. This question came from Iain, who blogs at http://ambivalentengineer.blogspot.com Rod, Could you please explain something to me, or point me at some…
I have spent the past 25 years studying and operating various kinds of energy production and consumption systems. My experience includes ocean sailing trips dependent on wind, batteries and and auxiliary diesel, backpacking trips dependent on biomass and auxiliary propane stoves, twelve 90-day patrols on a submarine in engineering jobs including chief engineer, 9 semester…