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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A friend of mine recently wrote a letter to Catholic Online in response to an opinion piece masquerading as an article. The piece was titled Canadian Catholic News: Nuclear energy called ‘a deeply spiritual issue’. The piece was an extensive rehashing of disinformation that has been spread for many years by Helen Caldicott, a professional…
Dan Yurman, my friend at Idaho Samizdat, is organizing a get together for bloggers and authors interested in talking and sharing stories about nuclear energy – and probably lots of other topics of interest. This event will build upon a community of interest that that got together in Atlanta in June for a wonderful outdoor…
A friend shared a link to a well written, fact-based opinion piece by Donald Jones published in TheStar.com titled No Future For Wind In Ontario. According to Jones’s by-line, he is a retired professional engineer with 35 years of experience in CANDU reactor design. Here are some quotes from the piece that are particularly important:…
Australia is in the midst of a very public discussion about the possible use of nuclear power to ease its dependence on coal, which now provides approximately 85% of Australia’s electricity. On the June 30, 2006 episode of The G’day World Podcast Cameron Reilly asked me many of the questions that have been posed by…
After my post about the “Atomic Anne” editorial, I realized that Roger Cohen maintains a blog titled Roger Cohen: Passages that accepts comments on his op-ed pieces. Here is my comment on his blog titled The clean air of France: Roger – you are correct to point out that France is less conflicted about its…
According to a Reuters article dated July 26, 2007 and titled Reid tells four companies no coal power in Nevada, Senator Harry Reid, the United States Senate Majority leader recently wrote a letter to four companies that have been planning to build coal fired power stations in Nevada. His strongly worded letter let them that…
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