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During the past week, I have read at least four editorials written in praise of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist manifesto Atlas Shrugged. The occasion for the flurry of effort was the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication in October 1957. These editorials have pointed to the influential nature of the book, which has achieved steady sales…
Apparently Russia did not get the memo. According to a 7 September 2006 article in the Russian News and Information Service, Rosenergoatom is planning to start building nine nuclear power units in 2007
In a recent post, I mentioned my idea that Jimmy Carter’s anti-nuclear energy policy was a deliberate strategy provided by his handlers and I mentioned my memory of the emphasis placed on his nuclear credentials during the campaign. I did some more digging this morning and came up with some pretty good supporting material for…
Eric McErlain at NEI Nuclear Notes pointed me to an interesting discussion that is going on at MetaFilter about nuclear power in response to Judith Lewis’s article in the LA Weekly. You can find the discussion at http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/46540. I was impressed by the civil nature of the discussion and the intelligence of the comments, even…
On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, I attended another Energy Conversation sponsored by a rapidly growing group of US government agencies and interested individuals. (You can find some background information about how these conversations are organized by visiting Energyconversation.org’s “Why it’s important” page.) The organization had invited Amory Lovins to speak about the Defense Science Board’s…
On June 16, 2010, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now hosted a roundtable discussion on energy that included Amy, Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. The quartet spoke for 30 minutes and covered a wide variety of ideas…
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