With a strong push from the Trump White House, the nuclear energy industry in the U.S. is, for the first time since Three Mile Island, bullish about its future. It’s about time, given that the average existing U.S. nuclear power plant was built based on 1980s technology. A major reason for the virtual standstill in […]
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A recent article in The New York Times described a major report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report detailed that carbon dioxide, methane, and other planet-warming greenhouse gases are threatening human health. Its tone implies that this is the strongest evidence to date. But is it? Back in 2009, the Environmental
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Relying on human ingenuity to coexist with a changing climate – either warmer or cooler – and tending to long-recognized public health threats are the best ways to ensure the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants, according to an Australian physician and expert in climate and public health. “The ingenuity of Homo sapiens at
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For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose, exports surged, poverty declined. This growth slowed under the weight of decarbonization dogma and financial
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The following is a guest article by Oliver Hemmers, Ronald Stein, and Steve Curtis. There is lots of talk about nuclear power around the world today. However, except for China and maybe Russia, there is no action. Talk means nothing, but action means everything. Perhaps the reason for inaction is the massive waste of government
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Residents of the Japanese coastal city of Fukuoka are pioneering the world’s first full-sized osmotic power plant — which generates electricity by mixing fresh water with saltwater. The plant, which opened on August 5, generates about 880,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to run a nearby desalination facility and supply about 220 nearby homes. The concept of osmotic power is
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Boasting that Texas “has built more wind power than any state and is a top contender for the most solar power,” a Texas Tribune article bemoans a decline in federal subsidies for such energy sources and a potential loss of “billions in investments and thousands of jobs.” Interestingly, the writers focus on business interests of the climate
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Whether China’s threat to restrict export of rare earth minerals materializes or is resolved through trade negotiations, the episode underscores the fragility of U.S. supply chains and the importance of developing domestic sources. Nowhere is this more evident than in the energy sector where climate policies have made dozens of countries more reliant on imports than
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The following is a guest article by Paul McDonnold. Despite having brains that weigh less than a paperclip, bees seem to understand Economics 101. A single worker, beating its wings hundreds of times per second, can visit thousands of flowers per day to gather scarce resources of pollen and nectar for conversion into a valuable
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The last two decades should have been a period of accelerating economic development for Africa, South America and much of Asia. Discoveries of abundant oil and gas supplies offered a rescue from poverty, industrial stagnation and poor access to electricity and other basic services. Instead, they got a man-made disaster, a deliberate slowdown of
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