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14 Oct 2020, 4:03 am
Tilak Doshi in Forbes asserts that rigorous economic analyses of the hidden costs of solar and wind counter claims that wind and solar power are already competitive with gas and coal power plants. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 7:50 am
Third, and perhaps most concerning, there is so far no sign that Beijing is willing to cede its dubious distinction as the biggest financier of coal-fired power plants and other high-carbon infrastructure across the developing world. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 11:32 am
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12 Oct 2020, 6:49 am
Title 1 D0897285 Charger 2 D0897245 Flex receiver hitch 3 10,791,383 Draft beer supply chain systems and methods 4 10,790,766 Dynamic energy harvesting and variable harvesting force system 5 10,790,441 Spin-transfer-torque synthetic anti-ferromagnetic switching device 7 10,789,797 Peripheral controller in an access control system 8 10,788,845 Optimization of mission efficiency through platoon opportunity assessment 9 10,788,542 Detection of deteriorated electrical connections in a meter using… [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Biden Transition Elevates Former Facebook Exec as Ethics Arbiter Politico – Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 10/1/2020 Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on government regulations, as its general counsel and charged her with navigating conflicts-of-interest and other ethical issues for the Biden administration-in-waiting, a move that drew immediate fire from the left. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 6:05 am
The Sendai High Court has ordered the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, to pay 1 billion yen ($9.5 million) in damages to victims of the 2011 disaster. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 9:10 am
Although many significant challenges remain, the company said construction would be followed by testing and, if successful, building of a power plant that could use fusion energy to generate electricity, beginning in the next decade. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 7:05 am
Scientists developing a compact version of a nuclear fusion reactor have shown in a series of research papers that it should work, renewing hopes that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achieved and eventually contribute to the fight against climate change.Construction of a reactor, called Sparc, which is being developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a spinoff company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, is expected to… [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Lev Parnas, oligarchs and a lucrative lobbying deal NBC News – Aubrey Belford, Adam Klasfeld, Andrew Lehren, and Dan De Luce | Published: 9/22/2020 On January 19, 2017, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected lobbyist serving as vice chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 8:05 am
The European Commission had approved the UK Government’s decision to construct the power plant in 2014. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 1:55 am
Key Findings Implemented in 1991, Sweden’s carbon tax was one of the first in the world, second only to Finland’s carbon tax, which was implemented a year earlier. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 11:34 am
There's a really interesting article in today's WSJ about NuScale's small modular nuclear reactor plants: ... the same folks who fought nuclear energy tooth and nail are now complaining that it’s too... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 9:59 am
., Sept. 17, 2020 OGIS’s latest agency compliance assessment delivers six findings and 10 recommendations for improving FOIA compliance and administration at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear medicine.NRC requested that OGIS review its FOIA program as part of its efforts to improve it. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 5:19 am
They're closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
Experts who track militia activity have been warning that the proliferation of powerful weapons in untrained hands during tense protests is a recipe for bloodshed. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 3:30 am
Well, maybe not as many as when the Germans bought Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from Montgomery Burns. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists Politico – Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/13/2020 When Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he barred the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from accepting contributions from lobbyists in an attempt to purge their influence from his future administration. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 9:03 am
There is a plan underway to construct a revolutionary type of nuclear power plant near Idaho Falls that would provide enough energy to power nearly three quarters of a million homes in Idaho and northern Utah. [read post]
9 Aug 2020, 8:35 am
In the criminal complaint filed in connection with the arrests, prosecutors alleged that FirstEnergy first bankrolled Householder’s 2018 election, and then bankrolled an effort led by Householder to pass House Bill 6, a $1.3 billion bill subsidizing two troubled FirstEnergy nuclear power plants, and then also financed a campaign to defeat a 2019 referendum to repeal the bill. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
That puts Biden at odds with powerful elements of his party’s liberal base. [read post]
