http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 16 May 2009 21:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The nuclear renaissance isn't just coming, it's here already here." Those were the keynote remarks form J.M. Bernhard, Jr., CEO of the Shaw Group, at PennWebb's "PowerGen" conference in Orlando last week. The industry's premier event, attended by 18,000 people, PowerGen was abuzz with talk of a nuclear revival. If you listened ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=20 Here;s a story that is the opening vignette in my book. Just after New Year's in 2006 I was out in Golden, Colorado, visiting the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, doing research for the book. I was just listening to Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat on the car CD when I ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=15 Last week Time ran a feature story on backyard windmills, the latest green craze. The story described the adventures of Doug Morrell, a Coopersville, Michigan maverick who has installed a 55-foot device on his farm. Here's the exact quote from the magazine:On days with decent wind - which occur frequently ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=13 I've just gotten back from a weeklong tour of France's major nuclear facilities. It was like wandering around Narnia. Here's a country that gets 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear, that doesn't burn a single ounce of coal or oil, that isn't uglifying its landscape with giant windmills, that ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=11 I apologize for not posting here for awhile. I guess this is starting to look like one of those "abandoned blogs" before it even gets started. My excuse is I have been editing the final draft of the book, which is now on schedule to come out in late August ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=9 Hi, I'm Bill Tucker, author of the forthcoming book, Terrestrial Energy, and operator of this website. As you can see, it's about nuclear energy, global warming and the threat to the environment. The theme of my book is that nuclear power is the only technology that's ever going to make ... http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/blog/?p=1