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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...

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Charles 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...

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DREAMS 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...

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CARTER 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...

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OBAMA 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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