The only long term strategy for energy
beside the suffering and the incompetence and all the other things Katrina and Rita revealed, two things have become clear: providing energy for all the major industry nations based on fossil fuels...
View ArticleThe Ease of Making Nuclear Weapons: The North Korean Bomb Fizzles.
The much ballyhooed "North Korean nuclear test" is apparently the subject of some confusion about it's actual nature. Here is a report from Yahoo:http://news.yahoo.com/...
View ArticleKorean Fizzling Nuclear Bomb Called A "Waste of Plutonium."
A few days ago, I wrote that in spite of much media attention, the North Korean nuclear test is more notable as a a failure than as a vast threat to humanity. A recent article in Chemical Engineering...
View ArticleThe Earth, the Energy Crisis and the Silver Bullet - Part 1: Coming Together
It's getting harder to block awareness that the world is facing an energy crisis that isn't going to solve itself (unless you're George W. Bush); unfortunately awareness is only the first step in...
View ArticleThe Earth, the Energy Crisis, and the Silver Bullet - Part 2: It's Elementary
The first installment of this series described the four main components of the energy/global warming crisis: increasing demand coupled with decreasing supply, the need to get away from fossil...
View ArticleThe Earth, the Energy Crisis, and the Silver Bullet, Part 3: The Big Squeeze
Welcome back. This is part three of a series on a possible Silver Bullet that just might be The Answer to the problem of global climate change and the energy crisis. Part 1: Coming Together laid...
View ArticleThe Earth, The Energy Crisis, and the Silver Bullet - Part 4: the Dynamic...
Welcome to Part 4 of this series on solving the world's energy crisis. Part One: Coming Together sketched out the nature of the crisis, and suggested fusion power might be the Silver Bullet we're...
View ArticleThe Earth, the Energy Crisis and the Silver Bullet - Part 5: Werewolves,...
I hope it's been an interesting week for those of you who've been following this Silver Bullet series. (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 can be found here for those who may have missed them.) I figured the...
View ArticleWill Fusion be our Redemption for Power?
Crossposted at Politicook.netThis diary was inspired by NNadir's diary earlier today on Dailykos.com and some of the comments associated with it. Whilst fusion promises a tremendous of essentially...
View ArticleHow has nuclear reactor safety improved?
This started off as a reply to a recent comment in another diary, but it became so long, that I thought that it was better served as its own diary entry. The answer is after the fold.
View ArticleNuclear (The REAL Alternative Energy) round up
Nuclear (The REAL Alternative Energy) round up:Periodically I like to focus in on what is going on in terms of new nuclear energy going on around the world. I've done a series of these over the years...
View ArticleSen. Murkowski asks Obama if he's serious about Climate Change??
Probably one of the best pro-climate change, pro-nuclear advocacy speeches ever given in Washington. Non-partisan, smart and, to the point: if you are for climate change mitigation you have to include...
View ArticleWhy I Am In Favor of Nuclear Power.
I'm over coal. I don't believe that coal emissions will ever be cleaned up. Coal ash disposal is a huge ecological disaster that will haunt this planet's occupants forever. Mountain-top removal is...
View ArticleNuclear Power: Tonight on the Democracy Hour 8PM
Nuclear Power and Our Energy FutureThe Democracy Hour with Tom De LucaTuesday, April 19th at 8PMTo Listen Live: Click here and hit “Play” on the Talking Alternative Player! (on the upper right of the...
View ArticleRussian Plans for Massive Expansion of Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy has been formally recognized as a critical technology in a decree that makes nuclear development a priority for Russia. Dmitry Medvedev signed off a list of 27 technologies as critical...
View ArticleThorium for Nuclear Energy - Initial Post
Political progressives should be very excited about the potential of Thorium fusion nuclear reactors for energy generation.Thorium is an abundantly-occurring radioactive element that is usable for...
View ArticleNuclear Energy News - Uranium from the Sea
It's been a long time dream, extracting precious metals from seawater. And, it can be done IF you're willing to spend a lot of time and money on it. A news article in New Scientist reports the...
View ArticleFusion - Update on the OTHER Nuclear Power
Cleaning Up Our (Power) ActThe world needs carbon-free power, ASAP. Solar power, wind, wave, tidal, hydro, geothermal, — these are ways of generating power that don’t produce greenhouse gases. The...
View ArticleNorth Korea suspected of another nuclear test, possible fusion bomb
A sharp, shallow tremor has been recorded in North Korea — strong signs that the nation has conducted another underground nuclear test.US seismologists said the 6.3 magnitude quake in the north-east of...
View ArticleWe (Still) Need Nukes!
Here's the pro-fission letter I wrote in response to a 2007 NYT Magazine article in Dubner and Levitt’s Freakonomics series, called The Jane Fonda Effect. I've been meaning to update it, but the basic...
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