Here is a link to a well reasoned viewpoint from Donald A. Grant, Ph.D., P.E. He is the R. C. Hill Professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maine.
This piece is recommended reading for anyone trying to understand why so many people are waking up to the importance of nuclear power developments.
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One of the big ideas in promoting a large industry dedicated to producing solar panels and wind turbines is the “feed in tariff”. As practiced in Germany, this concept guarantees that any supplier of power using approved methods can sell the power at a price high enough to provide a rate of return – normally…
Though plans for several coal fired power plant projects in Germany have been suspended, RWE recently announced that it is pressing forward with its project to construct a 1600 MWe hard coal facility in Hamm, in the Westphalia region. RWE has several partners in the project including 23 municipal utilities. According to a February 19,…
Steven Ayer at disinterested party has written a number of interesting articles about nuclear power and its future prospects. One of my readers pointed me to his recent article titled Nucleonomics. Unlike Steven and a number of other writers who have written about nuclear power economics, I have a direct and significant interest in getting…
I was dimly aware that Spain had, up until 2008, one of the most generous feed in tariff laws for grid connected solar systems, both photovoltaic and thermal. What I did not know was that Spain, as small and as lightly populated as it is, represented fully 42% of the world market for solar PV…
On Thursday I spoke with John Rubino, the author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom. You can listen in to our conversation at Atomic Show #116. You might learn something that could be valuable in the future.
Okay – I’ll admit that sometimes I am a bit slow to discover good items. There is just so much time during the day and so much material to read. Stuart Peterson, a frequent commenter on this blog, has his own blog at Nuclear Is Our Future. About a month ago, he published a terrific…