THE BIG BOOST?
There’s no two ways about it – the 47-nation summit that just wound up yesterday will give a big boost – maybe even permanent momentum – to the world’s conversion to nuclear energy. Although it wasn’t...
View ArticleCharles Barton Reviews Drama at Oak Ridge
Did Milton Shaw, a 1970s member of the Atomic Energy Commission, try to subvert the fast breeder reactor and close down Oak Ridge? Was thorium a better route toward nuclear? Was Alvin Weinberg the...
View ArticleDREAMS OF SOLAR ENERGY DRYING UP IN CALIFORNIA DESERT
From the Editors S. David Freeman, author of Jimmy Carter’s energy plan, scourge of nuclear power from the Tennessee Valley to Sacramento, and hero of the California Electrical Shortage, has long...
View ArticleCARTER SOLAR PANELS HEADED BACK TO WHITE HOUSE
Environmentalist Bill McKibben has a flare for the dramatic. The author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet has organized “360,” a worldwide internet rally to keep the CO2 content of the...
View ArticleOBAMA GOES SOLAR, RISKS COMPARISON WITH CARTER
Caught between a rock and a hard place, President Obama has chosen the rock.
 
According to a report in Bloomberg News, Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu told a Washington conference yesterday that...
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