The Triangle Business Journal is reporting that Progress Energy is preparing a license application for a plant in the Carolinas as well as its previously announced effort to prepare an application for a plant to be located in its Florida service territory.
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Spencer Reiss, who often writes about energy for Wired Magazine, published a review of Gwyneth Cravens’s Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy in the November 20, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The value of this review has already been demonstrated to me – I have received several emails mentioning…
Like many people who blog, I use it as a tool to communicate with people who share a common interest, but not a common location. Sometimes, however, there are wonderful opportunities to actually meet people in person with whom you have shared thoughts and ideas for several years. I had just such an opportunity last…
The Energy Tribune has an excellent cautionary tale titled New Research Questions Haynesville Shale Economics for those people who insist that abundant shale gas is the saving grace for the US energy needs and that its abundance is sufficiently large to serve as THE bridge to a solar/wind utopia. I have been watching the energy…
National Grid and Cape Wind announced that they will file a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Monday, May 10. Though the press release is full of happy language, there are some numbers in there that should cause some significant concern. According to the release, in 2013 National Grid will begin buying…
There is a thoughtful discussion going on at The Energy Collective about Robin Carey’s advice to nuclear advocates titled Message to the Nuclear Industry: Get Over Yourselves. As is often the case, Robin confuses the issue a bit by addressing “the nuclear industry” but then talking more about the activities of nuclear fission technology advocates…
It has been a crazy, busy week for me – so much has been happening that I almost missed the news coming out of South Africa at the HTR Conference 2006. It is still a busy time, so I will simply point out that Google News indexes South African news web sites. Searching with “pebble…