How Contaminated are the Oceans from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster?
A reader asks for my viewpoint on this article, suggesting that one-third of the world’s oceans have been polluted from the radiation that continues to leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
My take is that this is the typical hysteria about nuclear energy, driven, at least in part, by the folks who don’t want nuclear energy to replace what we have now. The oceans are “contaminated” in an extremely limited, virtually inapplicable sense of the word. (more…)
In response to my piece “
As the weather gets warmer, you’re likely going to be using your air conditioning unit a lot more. However, this isn’t the only way that you can stay cool. There are several practical ways to keep 
Advocates of renewable energy who may be interested in understanding the 
Those who correspond to me via email know that my “signature” contains the following:
A reader notes: “Efficiency” is bogus. Amory Lovins has been pushing “negawatts” for 40 years or so, and energy consumption has only gone UP. 
The course of technological progress isn’t always represented by a positive slope, and in the case of renewable energy there are most definitely a few examples of retrograde motion.
I just received an email that is so perfectly crafted I thought I’d publish it here in its entirety. The subject: Citizens United, the notorious U. S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 that enables corporations to spend as much as they wish influencing our elections. This law has effectively put a spear through all meaningful democracy here in the U.S., but that sad fact is not lost on 80% of Americans, many of whom are working hard in support of a constitutional amendment that would restore the integrity of our electoral processes. 
Here’s my first and long overdue post on the energy think tank 
My long-time colleague Lindsay Oliver writes, Hi Craig; Have you seen this (
