Thomas Edison demonstrated his first incandescent light bulb on this date in 1879, a feat noteworthy for several reasons: This success came at the end of an enormous number of experiments whose results were disappointing. When someone suggested that Edison was …
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A colleague in the pro-nuke camp writes to the group: Unfortunately, another horrible opinion piece, from Gregory Jazco, former NRC Chairman. Please comment! Wilco. Those of us that understand the urgency of creating a low-carbon energy future see the need …
The migration to renewables is best understood as a three-phase process: First, we have the task of replacing coal in the grid mix, which is happening with great effectiveness in our world today. The cost of PV, wind, other renewable …
It is true that humankind may be the beneficiary of a radical new approach to energy that will come along and save us from the vast environmental damage that our use of fossil fuels is wreaking upon our planet.
A reader notes: Renewable power generation technology faces three inherent problems: transmission, storage, and intermittent generating dynamics. Large scale economically viable storage solves the problems of all three to a major extent. We can but live in hope, and encourage all those …
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In response to my piece comparing Big Oil to Big Tobacco, Matthew Baxter writes: Just like big tobacco is around 20 years after people were predicting their imminent demise – big oil is likely to still be around in 20 …
I’ll let James Hansen explain it. This is a critically important topic, and most liberals, as they have ingested massive amounts of misinformation, get it completely wrong. Again, Dr. Hansen is far more qualified to address this than I will …
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers calls our attention to an article on the development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) in China, and points to this excerpt: “Professor Li, director of the project’s molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said …
A reader asked what I would do if I were elected to public office, by which I presume he meant: what would I do if I had unrestrained power to implement anything I want. First, let me say that I …
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Frequent commenter “MarcoPolo” (the original pictured left) writes: While it’s true that some technologies do become mainstream innovations, most never fulfill the dreams of their supporters, and remain only hobbyist or small scale applications. Like you, every week, I receive …
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