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Explaining residential electricity consumption: macroeconomic implications

January 3, 2011 by Lynne Kiesling
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At Grist, Sean Casten muses on the macroeconomic implications of trends in electricity consumption. His musings focus on the established correlation between electricity consumption and economic activity, an association that he fleshed out in an earlier post. In these two posts he looks at trends in residential, commercial, and industrial... [read more]

Nuclear taking off - but not here

December 10, 2008 by William Tucker
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"The nuclear renaissance isn’t just coming, it’s here already here."Those were the keynote remarks form J.M. Bernhard, Jr., CEO of the Shaw Group, at PennWebb’s "PowerGen" conference in Orlando last week.The industry’s premier event, attended by 18,000 people, PowerGen was abuzz with talk of a nuclear revival.  If you listened... [read more]

Tales from the Coal Pits

December 1, 2008 by William Tucker
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Here’s another anecdote from my book, Terrestrial Energy. One of the things I did was visit the Zimmer Power Station in Moscow, Ohio. This is an 810-megawatt coal plant that serves Cincinnati andsouthwestern Ohio. Zimmer significant in American energy history because in 1985 it was 95 percent completed as anuclear power plant when... [read more]

Whatever Happened to Small is Beautiful?

November 27, 2008 by William Tucker
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In 1976, Amory Lovins, the 26-year-old British representative of Friends of the Earth, published Soft Energy Paths, a phenomenally successful book that calledfor an American economy run on renewable and “soft” energy.Lovins’ mentor was E.F. Schumacher, who three years earlier had written Small is Beautiful, a manifesto for “appropriate... [read more]

Solar Scientists for Nuclear

November 25, 2008 by William Tucker
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Let me tell you a little story.  It’s the opening vignette in my book, Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Long Energy Odyssey, just published by Bartleby Press. <?xml:namespace prefix="o"?>  Just after New Year’s in 2006 I was out in Golden, Colorado, visiting the... [read more]

Terrestrial Energy: Is Anybody Paying Attention to this Green Stuff?

November 24, 2008 by William Tucker
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Last week Time ran a feature story on backyard windmills, the latest green craze. The story described the adventures of Doug Morrell, a Coopersville, Michigan maverick who has installed a 55-foot device on his farm. Here's the exact quote from the magazine:On days with decent wind - which occur frequently enough, since he can feel the... [read more]