In June, Babcock & Wilcox, a division of Houston-based McDermott International, announced plans to seek federal licensing for a 125-megawatt nuclear reactor that the company calls mPower.
Read moreThe Washington-based Middle East Institute has included an essay of mine in a special edition of its Viewpoints series. The piece looks at how the 1979 oil price shock has affected US energy policy.
Read moreOn Wednesday, President Obama traveled to Indiana to announce the recipients of $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money designed to help energize the US battery manufacturing and research business.
Read moreTexas has repeatedly been lauded as a leader in wind power development. Some of that attention is deserved.
Read moreKirk R. Smith is among the world’s leading authorities on the problem of indoor air pollution. In 2007, the World Health Organization found that indoor air pollution was killing about 500,000 people in India every year, most of them women and children.
Read moreWall Street JournalWhenever you read about ethanol, remember these numbers: 98 and 190.
Read moreSome questions defy answers. Among the most famous of those: “What’s the sound of one hand clapping?”
Read moreIf only we could turn bullshit into energy. Armed with that technology, the House could skip today’s much-anticipated vote on the cap-and-trade bill, a 1,201-page grab bag of ideas that has been dubbed the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.”
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid has declared that Yucca Mountain, the site in Nevada where the federal government has been planning to store high-level radioactive waste, is “never going to open.”
Read moreThe documentary, Food Inc. has been out for a few weeks. But readers should know that there’s a companion book to the movie. Published last month by New York’s best publishing house, PublicAffairs, the book includes my essay “The Ethanol Scam: Burning Food to Make Motor Fuel.”
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