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• Edison Electric Institute Horse Traded With Waxman And Markey - Dissenting Coal-Heavy Utilities Dislike The Deal

  If you are a political junkie who happens to have a primary addiction to energy issues, you need to read a terrific article in the August 5, 2009 New York Times titled 'Fragile Compromise' of Power Plant CEOs in Doubt as Senate Climate Debate Nears . Darren Samuelsohn and Katherine Ling apparently found some sources willing to share details about the way that electric utility company leaders... Posted Aug 06 2009, 01:30 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal, politics, edison electric institute, eei, waxman, markey

• Quick hitting video telling the truth about "clean coal"

  A friend sent me a link to an NY Times Green Inc. blog post titled The Coen Brothers Do Clean Coal with a new commercial from Reality.org. Since the clip is from YouTube, I figured there is no reason for them to have all of the fun. Let me know what you think: Read More... Posted Feb 26 2009, 07:06 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal

• Sierra Club's Anti-Coal Efforts - No Mention of the Atomic Alternative

  It continues to frustrate me that mainstream environmental groups cannot bring themselves to change their political alignment to include acceptance that nuclear fission power is a real alternative to fossil fuel combustion. I feel like I have so much in common with most members of the Sierra Club - I love the mountains, spend as much time as possible in the great outdoors, want to protect our national... Posted Feb 16 2009, 04:50 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• 2000 Words About Quitting Coal From the New York Times - Only Tiny Mention of "Nuclear"

  Melanie Warner wrote a 2000 word article for the business section of the New York Times titled Is America Ready to Quit Coal , that was published online on February 14, 2009. (There is also a note on the article that indicates that a version of it appeared in the print edition on February 15, 2009 on page BU1.) The article focuses on the challenges faced by utility companies like Duke Energy to build... Posted Feb 16 2009, 03:07 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• More Completely Unfounded CCS Assertions from "Energy Experts"

  The Guardian UK Observer has an article in the February 15, 2008 edition titled Coal at centre of fierce new climate battle . According to this article, some energy "experts" believe that countries like China and India are destined to burn coal in ever increasing quantities simply because it exists. But last week British energy experts warned that a system of carbon taxes had little chance... Posted Feb 15 2009, 07:38 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, China, coal, Clean and Safe Energy, India

• James Lovelock Provides "Fantasy" Story Line - Russian Oil and Gas Behind Litvinenko Murder by Polonium

  In the Sunday, February 15, 2009 edition of TimesOnline (London) , James Lovelock leads off a column supportive of nuclear power with a hypothetical story line. His hypothesis, nearly as interesting and potentially as conception altering as his famous Gaia theory, is that creative writers missed an opportunity for a believable thriller by failing to explore the possibility that Russian oil and gas... Posted Feb 15 2009, 05:39 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy, nuclear myths

• Navajo Mining Interests - Coal but Not Uranium

  One of the clubs used to batter atomic power advocates is the old story of indigenous people exploitation during the uranium mining boom of the 1950s and 1960s. The way the story is told, the uranium extracted from Navajo tribal land came at great cost to the health and welfare of the miners and their families and they remain burdened with the residues. That story is understood to be the reason that... Posted Feb 14 2009, 04:51 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Uranium, coal, mining

• More time reading than writing today - India, Texas, Vermont, South Carolina, and Neo-Cons

  I have spent the last few hours reading some interesting, sometimes detailed articles about nuclear power in India, Texas, Vermont and South Carolina. I also re-read a thought provoking article about how the neo-cons "killed" nuclear power. Though the author of that article used the word "killed", I think she would agree that it is too strong of a word; more accurately, the neo... Posted Feb 13 2009, 04:42 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, coal, Clean and Safe Energy

• 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

• "Clean Coal" PR Firm Details its Tactics for Elevating The Visibility of Coal During 2008 Presidential Campaign

  A friend of mine just sent me a link to a desmogblog.com post describing a proud friends and family newsletter from a Virginia based public relations firm called Hawthorn Group. The newsletter provided numerous details about how Hawthorn Group used a focused set of traditional public relations tactics to give the impression that there is a huge, grassroots level of support for coal. The newsletter... Posted Jan 18 2009, 05:24 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal

• The coal waste issue

  I have been getting into conversations with people about nuclear energy for several decades now, and nearly every one of them eventually gets around to "the waste issue". It happened to me again on Monday night during an interesting conversation with a politically active federal government employee. Here is the scene. I was at a reception for an old friend and USNA classmate who was celebrating... Posted Jan 07 2009, 04:25 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal

• Should New Coal Plants Carry the Risk of Bankruptcy?

  An interview conducted in January 2008 and posted on line ever since is causing a bit of a stir in the blogosphere, on talk radio, and in the mainstream press. Part of the reason for the attention is the fact that some of the states where polls indicate a close balance between the two major party candidates happen to be important coal producers. The phrase that is getting the attention from coal producers... Posted Nov 04 2008, 03:03 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: coal

• Not quite a "smoking gun" - Coal plant versus nuclear or alternatives

  American Municipal Power-Ohio , a nonprofit wholesale power supplier and services provider, is planning to build American Municipal Power Generating Station (AMPGS), a 1000 MWe coal fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio . The organization's members are interested in building a plant that gives them more control over the cost of the electricity that they provide to their members. AMP-Ohio currently... Posted Feb 24 2008, 04:45 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Nuclear Energy, coal