Here’s something else I learned from the Wired Nuclear energy article. (I really should read the article all the way through before posting.) Here’s a fun fact: Spent nuclear fuel – the stuff intended for permanent disposal at Yucca Mountain – retains 95 percent of its energy content. That’s really remarkable. There is so much […]
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Nice Article on Nuclear Power
31 January 2005 – 8:20 pm
Wired Magazine has a nice article on nuclear energy in the latest issue (13.02: the Firefox issue). It’s mostly about the US industry: why it stalled, ideas for kick starting it, and potential problems with doing just that. It’s a good article; I learned a few things I didn’t know before. In particular, I didn’t […]
Newfoundland Resource Protest
31 December 2004 – 6:25 pm
Whatever else may be said about The Hon. Danny Williams, it appears he’s far from alone in his protest against the Government of Canada. It was recently reported that the municipal governments in St. John’s, Mount Pearl and Corner Brook had also removed the flag. And, today I read about a local company in Newfoundland […]
Alternative Fuels Projects
There’s no doubt that alternative fuels projects are popular in Manitoba right now. First an expansion was announced for the Husky ethanol plant and now I read that there’s a planned biodiesel plant in Shoal Lake. Ethanol obviously has an established market along with guaranteed growth courtesy of the provincial regulations requiring its use, but […]