Category Archives: carbon
Heavy Water
Just as people were warming up to nuclear power again, along comes an 8.9 (update: 9.0).
Fearing another Chernobyl, Congressman Ed Markey wants to take this opportunity to suspend the licensing of new reactors here. William Tucker, in the WSJ, says he’s over-reacting.
James Delingpole, in The Telegraph, agrees and so does Josh Dzieza in The Daily Beast. Their consensus is that flooding the reactors with seawater means the utility owner is toast but nobody dies.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Voltwagon
Fredrich Hayek’s 1944 classic Road to Serfdom has become a best seller again. He said that governments tend to plan production for political, rather than market, purposes. Government owned GM’s new Volt costs $41,000, runs on a battery, and gets 40 miles per charge.
You Know The Drill
The Law-Enforcer-In-Chief responded to two court rulings overturning his deep water drilling ban by ordering a new deep water drilling ban.
