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Note on Thorium-Based Nuclear Reactors
One of the chapters of my most recent book, “Bullish on Renewable Energy,” covers the promise of advanced nuclear, and thorium in particular. If we can make this happen, which appears likely over the...
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Relatively Speaking
As noted in the Writer’s Almanac, today is the 114th birthday of the most famous equation known to humankind, E = MC2. We tend to think that the implications of the equivalence of mass and energy are...
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Nuclear Weapons
It’s the birthday of Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, instrumental in creating the atomic bomb in the mid-20th Century. When WWII was over and he had a chance to reflect on all this, he wrote: “It...
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Thorium: Coming Closer Every Day
Here’s a fabulous video in which the presenter offers a crash course on the particle physics associated with nuclear energy. Once this is under our belts, we’re in a position to understand the value...
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Update on Nuclear Energy
The future of nuclear energy will follow one of two paths. When we say “advanced nuclear,” we’re normally talking about fission, the decay of large atoms into smaller ones. Because the products have...
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Nuclear Fusion Holds Great Potential
In the history of the nuclear energy space, most of the world’s attention has been focused on fission, the breaking apart of large atoms, like uranium, into smaller ones, and the capture of the huge...
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Bullish on Renewable Energy
The author of the graph below is obviously bullish on renewable energy–doesn’t that have a familiar ring to it? Seriously, that projection of renewables goes right through the roof, and that’s a good...
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Bill Gates: Nuclear Power Will ‘Absolutely’ Be Politically Acceptable Again
Here we have Bill Gates discussing nuclear power, pointing out that it’s safer than oil, coal, natural gas–and, of course that it’s a requirement if our civilization is to mitigate climate change...
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The Schiller Institute and Nuclear Energy
I participate in a pro-nuclear energy group, that, unfortunately, thinks solar and wind are a waste of time and money. Though I’ve been unable to convince them otherwise, I like to hang around and...
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Renewables “Beat” Nuclear–But Is That a Good Thing?
2020 was the first year in which renewable power generation (excluding hydro) surpassed nuclear power generation. Now, proponents of renewables, and I’m certainly one, may find that a heartening...
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