For a variety of reasons, I was not very productive for most of the month of July. I have finally gotten around to adding another installment to the Adams Engine™ story titled Seeking Simplicity, Finding Complexity. Hope you enjoy learning – slowly – a little more about simple cycle gas turbines connected to high temperature reactors.
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Yesterday morning I noticed a scary story on the front page of the Baltimore Sun. David Murrin, and Marcellous Butler are working to build a wind farm with 10 large turbines on Greenbury Point, just upwind from the Annapolis harbor. Them’s fightin’ words, as they used to say in my Dad’s part of the country…
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I subscribe to the Nuclear Energy Institute YouTube channel. This evening, the above video describing the UAE decision to pursue nuclear energy development was posted. It explains why a nation with a relatively large inventory of oil and gas is interested in spending time and money now to develop a long term commitment to nuclear…
Several weeks ago, I mentioned that the governments in the area near the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station had passed resolutions to encourage the NuStart consortium to build a new plant in their backyard. They have apparently been busy in the past few weeks and have captured the attention of the Alabama state government. The Huntsville…
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