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• Nuclear Power Finds Small Beautiful

  Published 20 August 2013 | viewed 8,334 times

  To build a car, basically you need a wheel at each corner, after which you can do what you like. Flexibility comes in how you…

• What Shale Oil and Gas Can Learn from Nuclear

  Published 23 July 2013 | viewed 8,890 times

  The Arab oil embargo, imposed on the United States 40 years ago this fall, brought the instant chaos of gas lines, dire predictions and a…

• Oil Sands Show Obama’s Policy-Making at Its Worst

  Published 19 March 2013 | viewed 12,018 times

  What a mess President Obama makes as he tries to placate both sides of a dispute and comes out looking just inept.The president’s possible approval…

• Coal Is the Fuel of the Past and the Future

  Published 18 March 2013 | viewed 25,169 times

  Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association, says coal in 2016 will again be the world’s favorite carbon fuel, pushing out petroleum as the…

• Denmark Takes the Carbon-Free Path

  Published 21 January 2013 | viewed 6,373 times

  What is the fate of energy in a social welfare state? Denmark is such a state, and it is aggressively pursuing a carbon-free future.It provides…

• Nuclear Companies Hope Small Is Beautiful

  Published 30 November 2012 | viewed 10,859 times

  You can design a reactor in a hundred ways. It is like the French cheese dilemma; because there are some 500 cheeses in France, who…

• The 'New Weather' Is New Headache for Old Grid

  Published 27 November 2012 | viewed 5,909 times

  Whatever its cause, the weather is getting more severe and America's aging utility grid is ill-suited to withstand the furies that Mother Nature is unleashing…

• Ocean Power the Ignored Alternative

  Published 24 October 2012 | viewed 14,032 times

  DUBLIN -- Call it the joy of engineering.There is such a thing, and it is at its peak when engineers face a challenge unfettered by…

• A Disruptive Technology Sets Its Sights on Nuclear Power

  Published 18 September 2012 | viewed 19,408 times

  Is nuclear power ready for a truly disruptive technology? One company, with a track record of technology revolution, thinks so.The company has convincing cred: It…

• The Fuel Revolution that is Changing the World - and Us

  Published 23 July 2012 | viewed 12,563 times

  Colourless, odourless natural gas is changing the world geopolitically and economically in ways undreamed of even five years ago.It is a giant upheaval of which…

• The Devastating Effects of a Cyber-Attack Against a Country's Energy Grid

  Published 10 July 2012 | viewed 18,687 times

  Computer war has grown up. It has moved from the age of the equivalent of black powder to the equivalent of high-explosive shells -- not…

• Energy in the Time of Elections: Claims and Counterclaims

  Published 21 May 2012 | viewed 9,021 times

  Where there's oil and gas, there's milk and honey. That is the thrust of the American Petroleum Institute's report to the platform committees of the…

• Wild Swings Characterize Obama Energy Policy

  Published 23 January 2012 | viewed 7,151 times

  When it comes to energy policy, President Obama has an unfailing capacity to undermine his own declared intentions. If he were driving a car  the…

• Did Fukushima Really Put a Nail in Atomic Power's Coffin?

  Published 01 January 2012 | viewed 13,471 times

  There have been a flurry of antinuclear events in the United States since Christmas. Presumably, those who are opposed to nuclear power want to take…

• American Consumers May Pay High Price From Ethanol Damage

  Published 28 November 2011 | viewed 4,924 times

  Is too much ethanol in U.S. gasoline too much of a good thing? This isn't an idle question, because the federal government, under successive administrations,…

• Rowe, Philosopher-CEO, Retiring

  Published 13 November 2011 | viewed 6,013 times

  One of America's leading energy executives is retiring. John Rowe, a revered figure in the electric utility industry in particular, and energy circles in general,…

• The Brave New Energy World: Race Not Crisis

  Published 06 November 2011 | viewed 6,646 times

  As the United Nations declared that the world population had reached 7 billion, energy thinkers gathered in Houston last week were sure that even larger…

• America's Unrequited Love of Alternative Energy

  Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 6,483 times

  Like many Democrats, President Obama wants to believe -- wants desperately to believe -- in the technologies that can safely be assumed to be alternative.…

• The Joy of Natural Gas, It's Here Aplenty

  Published 16 May 2011 | viewed 9,453 times

  Tired of high gasoline pump prices? Wondering why, with our fearsome energy hunger, all the energy seems to be in the Middle East? That was…

• It's Time for Obama to Spook the Oil Markets

  Published 04 May 2011 | viewed 11,560 times

  The fate of the Obama presidency hangs not on a birth certificate or the red ink on the federal budget but by the hose nozzle…