While visiting our daughter this weekend for a gathering to celebrate the pending birth of our granddaughter, I noticed the below bumper sticker on a vehicle belonging to a young friend who attends college in western Virginia. I gave her a big hug and told her I was proud of her proclaimed sentiments.
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I have been musing a bit this morning about the impact of the cost of money for nuclear projects in the United States compared to the cost of money for other energy investments. I have a spreadsheet model that I built based on the methodology described in Appendix 5.A — Calculation of the Levelized Cost…
A couple of weeks ago, I got involved in a long conversation on a rather obscure web site when I found that there was some discussion about my repeated questioning of Amory Lovins’s academic background. My post about joining the conversation is titled When is ad hominem information relevant to an energy discussion?. Some of…
I have frequently written about the need to change the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license fee structure from the current model of a single annual fee for all power reactors, no matter how complex they are or how much power they produce. Under current rules, the annual fee for any power reactor is approximately $4.1 million…
I grew up in South Florida, a place where the only hills are overpasses. Nearly every summer, we traveled to northeast Georgia or western North Carolina where Dad, a good ol’ boy from southern Georgia, shared his love of mountains with all of us. We played in mountain streams, fished for trout, dove off of…
I have recently read two articles that struck me as important because of an interesting contrast in attitudes and legal treatment. Both of them discuss mining for valuable, but potentially hazardous materials in the commonwealth of Virginia. On Sunday, January 13, my wife and I had a marvelous Sunday morning that included taking the time…
FPL – Florida Power and Light – is the electric power utility that serves the southeast part of Florida where 4.5 million people live and where I grew up. It is also the company where my father worked as a transmission substation engineer for a bit more than 35 years. I have very fond memories…
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