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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Yesterday morning, NPR had a segment discussing the controversy over protecting certain portions of the Mojave Desert from solar energy development. It describes how one project developer was planning to grade and level 5500 acres of land and then cover that cleared area with a quarter of a million truckloads of gravel to form the…
A friend who reads Atomic Insights suggested that I would enjoy watching the below videos based on my recent comments about how “the dose makes the poison” when it comes to the health effects of low levels of exposure to radiation and other potential hazards. He was right – this is a well done, valuable…
After Amy Goodman interviewed Amory Lovins for Democracy Now, she wrote a blog post on TruthDig.com titled Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid. I do not think that Amy is one of those bloggers who notices when others have something to say about their posts; she apparently is not even one who participates in the discussion…
I have recently read two articles that struck me as important because of an interesting contrast in attitudes and legal treatment. Both of them discuss mining for valuable, but potentially hazardous materials in the commonwealth of Virginia. On Sunday, January 13, my wife and I had a marvelous Sunday morning that included taking the time…
The Conservative Voice has posted an article by James Finch of TradeTech titled Is $50/Pound Uranium Sustainable? dated 7 September 2006. If you are interested in the factors that influence uranium prices and the profitability of the uranium mining industry, I highly recommend that you read the article, perhaps a couple of times. According to…
Every once in a while I get a little sarcastic. It might get me in trouble one of these days – or should I say it might get me in more trouble one of these days. I follow a Twitter user named NaturalGasFlk who just tweeted about a post on True Blue Natural Gas titled…
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