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There is an interesting discussion going on at Long Now Discuss > View topic – 02006-01-13 > Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanagh. The initiating post in the discussion is a summary by Stewart Brand of an event held by the Long Now Foundation on 13 January 2006 at the Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue,…
I just read a pithy quote that distills part of my beef with the Amory Lovins school of energy thought – he makes statements about energy supply costs that imply that there is no difference between a kilowatt-hour avoided and a kilowatt-hour supplied and that there is no difference between an intermittent kilowatt supply and…
I noticed the following brief comment about Toshiba’s Westinghouse purchase in an article on Bloomberg.com titled Japan’s Bank Lending Gains, Fueled by Company Demand (Update3). Toshiba, Japan’s biggest nuclear reactor supplier by generating capacity, obtained agreements in July to borrow as much as 400 billion yen ($3.4 billion) to finance its purchase of Westinghouse Electric…
Excerpt from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008. SEC. 1012. POLICY RELATING TO MAJOR COMBATANT VESSELS OF THE STRIKE FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. (a) INTEGRATEDNUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS.—It is the policy of the United States to construct the major combatant vessels H.R.4986—302 of the strike forces of the United States…
It has taken me a couple of days to get around to finish watching the talk that Dr. John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave to MIT students as the speaker for the 2010 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology. Dr. Holdren gave his talk, titled The Energy /…
Tom Friedman is an author who can never be accused of being boring. People often love him or hate him. In the below clip he wishes for a “perfect storm” that is big enough to convince people that climate change is real, but small enough so that it does not “end the world.” That is…