Global Warming and Nuclear Energy

The premise of this blog is that global warming must be minimized and that without a concerted nuclear construction effort the world will face environmental and economic dislocation on a scale that hasn't been seen since plagues swept across continents. The articles will be based on a web page called Global Warming: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Al Gore's New Book

The last month has been bad for the struggle against climate change. The Pew Research Center's recent poll shows that Americans are al...

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Lobbyists, Cynicism, and Energy Policy

------UPDATE: EATING WORDS------- When you're wrong you should say you're wrong. In the article shown below in its original form I ...

Monday, November 24, 2008

The Case for Nuclear Energy

This article is a brazen plug for a new web page that lays out the argument for nuclear energy, based on several years of debating on the in...

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Solar Energy, Wind Power, Intermittency, and Storage

Download PDF version In ordinary conversations about renewable energy, the issue of energy storage is often overlooked. Renewable sources g...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Nuclear Energy Costs

Every responsible study has shown that nuclear electricity is as cheap as any of the non-fossil alternatives and is competitive with fossil-...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Energy Fuel Supplies

When energy is discussed, the subject of fuel reserves often arises. In particular, opponents of nuclear energy point to a few decades of p...

Saturday, July 19, 2008

My Coal Company

If I owned a coal company, my biggest fear would be that people would learn how much damage I was causing and make me pay for it. My second...

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Surprising Poll Results

The Zogby poll for June 6, 2008 offered some surprises. It showed that 67% of Americans favored building nuclear power plants. That's...

Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Price-Anderson Act

Prefatory Note: A visitor generously suggested ways to improve the accuracy of this article and its present version was written after receiv...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

A Talk with Al Gore

I just read Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason . He's such an intelligent guy, don't you wish you could sit down with him ov...

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