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Help! I'm a prisoner in the Senate Office Building!
Dear Energy Collective Readers, Just thought you might like to know why you haven't seen anything from me in the past two weeks. I am both regretful and happy to report that I won't be able to write for The Energy Collective anymore (or...
People of Plenty
In my book, Terrestrial Energy, I talk about historian David Potter’s 1956 book, People of Plenty, which redefined Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis.” Whereas Turner said that an abundance of land had been the defining experience in...
Windmills - America's New Samurai Sword
In 16th century Japan, the national aristocracy, a coterie of priests and samurai warriors, decided that guns, which had been introduced a century earlier, were a threat to the established order and should not proliferate....
There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom: Being a Meditation on Why Silicon Valley Won't Solve the Energy Crisis
[This article appears in the current issue of The American Spectator.]On December 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California...
As a Nuclear Advocate, I say "Let's Close Oyster Creek."
Right now there probably isn’t a bigger advocate of nuclear power in the country than I am. I’ve just published a book, Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Long Energy Odyssey and now spend...
Poor T. Boone Pickens - He Means So Well
T. Boone Pickens held his “virtual march on Washington” this week with the millions of his army emailing their Congressional representatives about the Pickens Plan. The Plan, as I’m sure you know, goes like this: We’ll put up lots and lots of...
Three Mile Island - Thirty Years After
During these past few dates in 1979, a minor valve failed in the cooling loop of a power plant on a sand bar in the middle of the Susquehanna River and the world became familiar with the name “Three Mile Island.” The country’s first...
Carter Energy Plan, Part II
"We know the right thing to do," said President Barack Obama at his press conference last week on renewable energy. “We’ve known the right choice for a generation. The time has come to make that choice and act on what we know. . . .We...
Let's Have a Nuclear-Solar Alliance
In 2006, while researching my book, Terrestrial Energy, I visited the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. As luck would have it, I arrived the same morning as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who was shooting for his...
Shed No Tears for Yucca Mountain
“White House Buries Yucca,”read the headlines on Friday after Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a Senate hearing that the Nevada repository is “no longer an option” for long-term storage of nuclear waste.Instead, Chu said, the Obama...
Outsmarting the Smart Grid
The latest delusion about energy is the “smart grid.” This bright new technological miracle will once again help us overcome the realities of physics and allow us to live in a world run on wind and sunshine.Al Gore, Thomas Friedman, Amory...
Proliferating Nonsense
It has often been said that declining aristocracies spend all their time reliving the glories of the past. I can think of no better example than American environmentalism's obsession that abstaining from nuclear power in this country will...
