Ronald Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny
If you are involved in any government economics policy or if you are a strategic planner for a business, or if you have a planning role in the Puzzle Palace – go there; read that article. Think and ACT.
PLEASE!
Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.
Recent government discussions in Ontario about future energy supplies have indicated a significant interest in building new nuclear power plants. Ontario has a growing power demand due to an increasing population, but it also has a strong desire to eliminate the need to burn coal to supply that power. In the past, Atomic Energy of…
A friend sent me a link to a Harvey Wasserman comment about nuclear energy on DailyKos. As usual, he is pushing his lifelong anti-nuclear agenda by pointing to a Colbert Show skit with Jackson Browne – who is a far better singer than he is an energy solutions analyst. If you have time, stop by…
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) is one of the most respected analytical organizations in the energy business. Its founder and current chairman is Daniel Yergin, author of the seminal 1991 book on the oil business titled The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. That book is one of the most dog eared…
In mid November former Vice President Al Gore became a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The story has received a lot of attention in the business press; you can find one example on CNNMoney.com titled Al Gore’s next act: Planet-saving VC. The story first appeared in Fortune Magazine. Most…
On August 12, 2008, Hyperion Power Generation issued a press release announcing the receipt of a letter of intent (LOI) from TES Group, an investment company that is developing energy projects in Central Eastern Europe. (Update posted August 12, 2008 – I found a web site for a TES Group that seems to match up…
Several of my regular sources of information about the happenings associated with nuclear energy, including John Wheeler’s This Week In Nuclear and Meredith Angwin’s Yes Vermont Yankeehave published stories about the recent flurry of news regarding the discovery of tritium in ground water on the site of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. I have…