US Electricity Production According to the US Energy Information Administration, as of 2016 US electricity production consisted of: 6% Wind 7% Hydro 2% Biomass 1% Solar 20% Nuclear 65% Fossil fuels (coal and natural gas) The Threat The greatest environmental threat facing humanity is human induced climate change and its associated effects […]
Radioactivity is scary; but this is one of those stories that are out of sync with reality. Different countries have varying standards of what is considered safe levels of tritium in drinking water, but they are all within a bandwidth that guarantees any effect is so small so as to be undetectable. To put this […]
An unidentified leak of tritium has been detected at several of the monitoring wells at Indian Point nuclear facility in New York state. What is tritium? What are the likely implications of this release? And, what actions should we consider moving forward? Indian Point is a nuclear power plant located just south of Peekskill, […]
Carbon Fee and Dividend The Carbon Fee and Dividend (CF&D) is an alternative to a Carbon Tax and is favored by many economists. It is called a “fee” rather than a “tax” because the full amount collected is returned directly to the public. A tax is a levy imposed to raise revenue to fund government […]
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (Kindle Edition) By James Mahaffey 5.0 out of 5 stars A Grand Adventure Disguised As A Technology Book This was not the book I expected when I purchased it. I was expecting an authoritative, well researched, well documented treatise on […]
Carol Browner, Administrator of the EPA under President Clinton, and Director of the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy under President Obama wrote recently “I used to be anti-nuclear. But, several years ago I had to reevaluate my thinking because if you agree with the world’s leading climate scientists that global warming is real […]