Financial Markets

This presentation by Dr. John M. Ryskamp, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory(INEL)  from 2003 provides a nice overview on the Need for Nuclear Power.
See the presentation here.

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Rex Tillerson, Chairman & CEO, Exxon-Mobil Corp.  commenting on a wide range of energy/climate related issues.
Read it here.

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Monday, Nov. 28, 1983
By John Greenwald;Barry Hillenbrand/Bahrain
Falling revenues force Persian Gulf states to curb their spending
For most of the past decade, the money flowed like oil from the local gushers. All told, nearly $1 trillion poured into the sparsely populated, energy-rich Arab states along the Persian Gulf.* Now that stream has dwindled sharply. This year [...]

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BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber
Sep 4th, 2009 by John Donovan.
Tom Baldwin and Philip Webster
Jack Straw was personally lobbied by BP over Britain’s prisoner transfer agreement with Libya just before he abandoned efforts to exclude the Lockerbie
bomber from the deal.
The Times has learnt that the Justice Secretary took two telephone [...]

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PETER W. HUBER
Bound to Burn
Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.

TEUN VOETEN/SIPA
Cheap coal, like that extracted from this Chinese mine, is essential to the developing world’s economic growth.

Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. [...]

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In general I agree with much of what Vinod Khosla has to say. Read Part I here

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Crude Oil prices continue to drift downwards . . .  it appears though that a bottom is being formed.

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Another top-level view from Peter Huber.
Executive Summary
Electricity—not oil—is the heart of the U.S. energy economy. Power plants consume as much raw energy as oil delivers to all our cars, trucks, planes, homes, factories, offices, and chemical plants. Because big power plants operate very efficiently, they also deliver much more useful power than car engines and [...]

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A replay ?
Energy & Genius
A Brief History of Energy Boondoggles
Daniel Fisher 11.24.08, 12:00 AM ET  Forbes.com
The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $57.5 billion over the past 30 years researching and developing clean energy technologies. In all that time the nation’s energy portfolio has barely budged. Fossil fuel as a share of our energy supply has [...]

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Brilliant idea !
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

Clean, Safe, Affordable Power 
Where you need it,  When you need it.

Who would have thought that the benefits of generating electricity from huge nuclear power plants…

 
 Clean
no greenhouse gases to contribute to climate change Safe
the most controlled and regulated type of power on the planet Affordable
the cheapest in terms of dollars & environmental impact
 Reliable
Available 24 /7 rain or [...]

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