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Chinese Nuclear Energy and the Future of Innovation
Nuclear Energy in China
Because of the pressing need for thousands of large generating stations that emit no carbon dioxide while providing electricity, many keep returning to improvements in nuclear power.[read more]
Carbon Dioxide and Nuclear Energy: The Great Divide and How to Cross It
"Cult Versus Cult" on Global WarmingThe Whole Earth CatalogWilliam Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy, has a provocative posting in Nuclear Townhall: When it Comes to Nuclear and Global Warming, It's Cult vs Cult. Basically, many nuclear supporters believe that global warming is not happening. Meanwhile, people who are...[read more]
How Green Is My Electric Vehicle?
One of the biggest challenges in assessing the environmental benefits of electric vehicles is that electricity is generated in so many different ways, with differing costs and consequences, and that patterns of generation vary by region, season, and time of day. As a result, categorical claims that EVs are always greener than the hybrids...[read more]
Have US Emissions Peaked?
America's newfound abundance of natural gas is helping drive US CO2 missions down even as the economy recovers. This is principally the result of the ongoing transition from coal to natural gas in the electric power sector.[read more]
The Next Big CAFE Loophole
The great pitfall of government policies, no matter how well-intended they might be, is their inevitable unintended consequences. When those are truly surprising, it's hard to attach much blame to the legislators or regulators involved. However, that degree of indulgence shouldn't apply when the unintended consequences are as obvious as...[read more]
EIA stunner: By year’s end, we’ll be 8.5% below 2005 levels of CO2 — halfway to climate bill’s 2020 target.
The Energy Information Administration released its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) last week with a bombshell prediction for near-term carbon dioxide emissions: Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels fall by 6.0 percent in 2009 because of the weak economic conditions and declines in the consumption of most...[read more]
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“Tesla’s management has done an outstanding job of developing their company and obtaining funds needed to build/expand their business. They are also truly an exceptional company by repaying their loans guaranteed by the Federal government. A WSJ article today (May 24, 2013; “The Other Government Motors”) provides some interesting information on some of the formula to their ...”
“Hydrogen can also be made from fossil fuels. In fact, we are now just starting a research project on a Chemical Looping Reforming reactor with embedded membranes which could lead to affordable hydrogen production with inherent CO2 separation. Chemical Looping Reforming is based on the somewhat more mature Chemical Looping Combustion which economic studies have found capable of producing ...”