Nuclear Power: What Future?
Smoke from nuclear plant. (C) Reuters The men and women who design, build, and work at nuclear power plants are bright, dedicated people who work hard so that when we flip a switch the power flows, so...
View ArticleNuclear Power and Cocaine
Asking a nuclear engineering professor “Is radiation bad?” is like asking Charlie Sheen “Is cocaine bad?” On “Morning Edition” today, 3/30/11, Renee Montagne did just that when she interviewed...
View ArticleWhy Cape Wind Still Matters
Tweet On May 25, 1961 President John Kennedy said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him...
View ArticleEarth Day, 2011, Where Are We?
Earth from Space, courtesy of the American taxpayer. Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC Tweet Earth Day, 2010, I looked to the future on Popular Logistics. In 2009, I...
View ArticleWould Ayn Rand be Concerned about Climate Change? You Betcha!
Tweet On Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Climate Change Ayn Rand would not “believe” in climate change. She would try to objectively determine whether the theory correctly modeled the data. While it is...
View ArticleClean Energy, Good Jobs, and a Vibrant Economy … But
courtesy NASA (our tax dollars at work) Tweet It sounds too good to be true: * 100 gigawatts of offshore wind, $300 Billion, * 100 gw of landbased wind, $200 Billion, * 75 gw of solar, $300...
View Article"Beyond Fuel" at the Space Coast Green Living Festival
Green Living Festival Tweet I am presenting “Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes,” a discussion of the hidden costs, or “economic externalities,” of nuclear...
View ArticleBeyond Fuel – for the 21st Century – Cocoa Beach, Sept. 17
Tweet I will be presenting Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes at the Space Coast Green Living Festival, Cocoa Beach, Florida, Sept 17, 2011. The festival...
View ArticleCarbon Sequestration: A Surreal Carbon Solution
What was once a mountain. image courtesy of Appalachian Voices. AppVoices.org Writing in the New York Times, here, Joe Nocera, says, Sometime this summer, in Odessa, Tex., the Summit Power Group plans...
View ArticleChina to Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions Below 2005 Levels – After 2030.
BEIJING, CHINA – Tiananmen Square, January 23, 2013 (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) Forbes, here, and reports that China is building a 200 MW solar farm in the Gobi Desert (Clean Technica, here, IFL...
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