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A friend sent me a link that once again indicated that the Internet, despite search engines and alerts, is still a source of content and opinions that is so vast you can still find surprises about even a very narrowly focused topic. I have been publishing and researching articles and commentary about...

Darren and Heather McLaughlin are the editors of Our Green Empire which describes itself by the following profile statement: Our Green Empire is a blog devoted to eco-friendly solutions for modern living. The environment is our friend, and sustainability is our goal. Here is an example quote from a March...

Joe Romm, an Amory Lovins protege and strongly partisan anti-nuclear activist who claims to be concerned about climate change, has published an emotionally charged diatribe at HuffingtonPost.com against the very idea that the US Senate included emission-free nuclear power in its list of clean energy...

A recent story by Emily Lambert in Forbes titled Nimby Wars caught my eye while doing some dead tree reading. (I confess; I have subscriptions to a fairly large number of print publications and sometimes leave my computer screen to read them.) The story is about an experienced political operative with...

Iowa is the corn capital of America which also makes it the ethanol capital, with an annual current production capacity of 1.5 billion gallons of that gasoline supplement. The trouble is that most of the production plants use a lot of natural gas and electricity produced in coal fired power plants. Some...

No matter what you might think about ExxonMobil's product, you should take a hard look at their business results and recognize that the company is very good at what it does. The people in charge there look far into the future and deep into the past. They know their product, they understand the market...

The gas crisis in Europe continues. The European Commission has sent a letter to Slovakia requesting clarification for the reason it has announced its intention to put aside its EU the accession agreement. That agreement, despite requests for reconsideration, resulted in shutting down two 408 MWe reactors...

As a life-long lover of words, I enjoyed reading a PalmBeachPost.com article titled State's green-energy future down to one choice: Renewable or clean? . It was a well-written piece that should help people understand just how important the battle over certain words can be. In this specific case,...

I received several comments from people who had perused yesterday's Wall Street Journal. Apparently they saw the abbreviated paper version of the article titled Reading Up on Nuclear Energy . It was nice to hear from so many people and kind of nice to see my name in print. ( I am the guilty owner...

An good friend just sent me a letter (yes, it was digital, but not your typical "email") that included mention of a topic important to both of us, but somewhat difficult to explain. Ted mentioned that most nuclear advocates do not spend enough time talking about the important difference in...

On October 14, 2008, I watched CNBC's premier of "The Nuclear Option" , a 35-40 minute video documentary about using nuclear fission as a power source. The show was squeezed into a 60 minute television time slot shared by many minutes worth of commercials, but that is par for the course...

I would hate to be called a "shill" for the established media, but I am very interested in seeing what CNBC's Melissa Francis will be showing us tonight when The Nuclear Option airs at 9:00 pm eastern time. After watching the show, I hope to provide some commentary. It might go up early...

I received a comment on a recent post letting me know about a new CNBC Original production titled - The Nuclear Option . It will be shown starting October 14, 2008. Check your local schedule for a listing, but the web site says it will be shown at 9 pm Eastern Time in the US. I would have preferred to...

I have a new hero, even though I have not yet read his book. Joe Shuster is a retired entrepreneur who is spending $200,000 of his own money to promote the idea that the United States needs to build about 800 new nuclear power plants in order to stretch supplies of fossil fuels far into the future. Joe's...

There is a new pronuclear voice in town - CleanEnergy4America.org . I read about it on NEI Nuclear Notes this morning and just had to check it out. I recommend that you do the same - right now. After you have perused the well designed site, come back here for a little more discussion. While I followed...

After pointing to the clear thinking on the natural progression of energy technology provided on Chicago Boyz , I have continued to participate in an interesting conversation thread tied to Shannon Love's post titled Fantasy Energy . Shannon's position is that the only real opposition to nuclear...

My friend, David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes pointed out a well written essay by Shannon Love on Chicago Boyz titled Fantasy Energy . Here is a sample from that blog: I think it important to emphasize that we would need to move to nuclear energy even if we had an infinite supply of fossil fuels and...

Bill Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy (warning: Terrestrial Energy has a fascinating intro video that plays automatically unless you skip it) has produced a series of posts for the Freakonomics blog hosted by the New York Times. The comments are being moderated - which slows down the conversation...

On Saturday, August 2, I gathered a group of well informed bloggers to talk about the growing interest in small nuclear power plants. Kirk Sorensen blogs at Energy from Thorium and is nearly finished with his MS in Nuclear Engineering. Charles Barton blogs at Energy from Thorium and Nuclear Green . Dan...

Many observers, perhaps even most observers, claim that the growth of nuclear power has nothing to do with oil consumption. They claim that nuclear power is limited to electrical power and that there is very little oil used to generate electricity. I want to dispel that rumor right now. Since I do not...

In the past week, retirement has been a big topic on my mind. I served as a sideboy and flag passer for a colleague, I dig some digging into the cost of a flag officer retirement, and I attended a surprise retirement party for a man who had worked for the DC Metro system since he was 16 years old, starting...

I've got a hot tip for you. According to an article in Seattlepi.com titled What's next for Gates? Anything he can dream up , Gates is taking an active interest in a nuclear power project. He has been talking about all kinds of ideas with Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at...

Wired Magazine's Spencer Reiss has long been a supporter of new nuclear power plants. In a recent series of short articles all under the heading of 10 GREEN HERESIES that environmentalists must overcome to succeed in a battle against global climate change, Spencer's contribution is titled EMBRACE...

One of the things that I like about being working with nukes is the fact that they plan ahead. Sometimes that characteristic is frustrating to people that are a bit more impatient and who want instantaneous results. As companies continue to prepare for the second Atomic Age, they are making investments...

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned Robert Hargraves's Rethinking Nuclear Power course and pointed out how to find it. In the intervening weeks, I have taken on a new job within the Navy and have also taken a short Florida vacation. Quite frankly, I had forgotten about the course until I noticed a...