The Utah legislature has added nuclear power to a list of energy sources defined as “renewable”. You can read about it at Renewable Energy Incentive Includes Nuclear Power and Utah governor, Legislature at odds over climate change. It is not clear yet whether or not the governor will sign the bill, but he has made some strong statements in the past about the need to address climate change.
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Susan McGinnis of Clean Skies News interviewed Bruce Nilles, National Coal Campaign Director from the Sierra Club, about coal plant emissions. There is a very interesting passage in the interview worth transcribing. The following exchange takes place between time marks 4:26 and 5:25 in the clip. Nilles: We do not actually think you should build…
During my early morning research, I often discover items that catch my interest or spark amusement. I was atracted to the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s (NJPIRG) web site by a press release announcing the expansion of a coalition that is opposed to Exelon’s effort to purchase PSEG (Public Service Enterprise Group). The group…
PowerGenWorldWide.com has published a fascinating interview with Chris Mowry, President and CEO, Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) Modular Nuclear Energy titled The mPowerTM Modular Reactor. The conversation goes into significant detail about B&W’s design decisions, target market, engineering constraints, and desire to make use of its vertically integrated North American manufacturing base. Here is a sample…
Tim Worstall published an article titled “Nuclear Power and CO2 Emissions” on 1 November 2005. Well worth a read. The topic has been discussed several times before and Tim does an admirable job of trying to be fair to people who baldly assert that nuclear power has measurable emissions of polluting gases that are worse…
Yesterday I mentioned the high cost of the competitors for atomic energy in America. The fact that energy is far more expensive now than it was just two or three years ago is not really news – radio, television and newspaper articles that talk about gasoline prices are published with great regularity. Gasoline prices are…
Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, is a visionary leader who recognized many years ago that the United States has a tremendous store of methane and other flammable gases in shale formations like the Barnett Shale. He took that knowledge and applied it to building one of the fastest growing energy companies in the…
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