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• Shell CEO Damns Nuclear With Faint Praise

  English majors are notorious for reading between the lines and coming up with character motivation theories that are not supported by the text on the page. That is one reason I thoroughly enjoyed my undergraduate education - it was fun to try to find the underlying story while most of my engineer friends were crying out in frustration as the humanities professors graded their analysis as shallow. Here... Posted Feb 15 2009, 07:20 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Clean and Safe Energy, Oil

• Clean Coal Ad from King Coal and Big Oil Environmentalism

  While browsing through this morning's Wall Street Journal (20 January 2009) I could not help noticing the below full page ad from Peabody Coal which claims to be the world's largest private sector coal company. It was in a prominent location for the the political junkie class - a special Inauguration section that might end up being retained as a keepsake. Peabody is not the only fossil fuel... Posted Jan 20 2009, 07:34 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal, Oil

• Saudi Oil - 60 Minutes Interview Part 2

  Part 2 of 2 - CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl and the 60 minutes crew provide a look inside Saudi Aramco, the world's most profitable company and its largest oil supplier - by far. The interviews focus on Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi Oil Minister, but also include discussions with a number of technical experts and supervisors at one of the most impressive control centers I have ever seen. At the end... Posted Dec 08 2008, 02:56 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Oil

• Saudi Oil - 60 Minutes Interview Part 1

  Part 1 of 2 - CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl and the 60 minutes crew provide a look inside Saudi Aramco, the world's most profitable company and its largest oil supplier - by far. It is incumbent on any good nuclear proponent to understand as much as possible about the overall market in which our favorite technology competes. The below embedded video provides a unique view of the massive investments... Posted Dec 08 2008, 02:36 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Oil