Nuclear - Oct 3
-'Hundreds of problems' at EU nuclear plants -Nuclear fusion – your time has come -So Far Unfruitful, Fusion Project Faces a Frugal Congress -Japan Minister Says Nationalization Needed to Phase Out...
View ArticleODAC Newsletter Oct 5
News of Turkish military retaliation to a mortar round fired from inside Syria spooked oil markets this week. Former Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has warned that there is a danger that the...
View ArticleShale gas - Oct 23
-The murky future of U.S. shale gas -After the Boom in Natural Gas -US natural gas boom claims first nuclear plant -Report sees economic boost from unconventional oil and gas -US fracking sites impact...
View ArticleThe peak oil crisis:the end game
It is becoming clearer all the time that mankind is approaching a major turning point in its tenure on this planet. Without going into the myriad of details, the new reports forecast that the...
View ArticleODAC Newsletter Oct 26
BP took a gamble this week, entering into partnership with the Russian state backed energy company Rosneft. The deal frees the company from a stormy relationship with its oligarch partners at TNK BP....
View ArticleIEA - World Energy Outlook 2012 - Nov 12
-WEO 2012 Executive Summary -U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia's by 2020 -IEA calls for focus on energy efficiency -IEA cuts global forecast for growth in nuclear capacityread more
View ArticleDeterrence in an Age of Decline
There are times, and this is one of them, when I wonder if somewhere in the last few weeks we all somehow got teleported into an alternate universe where nothing works quite the same way as were used...
View ArticleScience's evil twin
Every time that I find myself discussing “cold fusion,” I need to explain why I think there exists a "good" science and a "bad" science; the latter sometimes defined also as “pseudo-science” or...
View ArticleODAC Newsletter Nov 30
Thursday saw the long awaited UK energy bill finally presented to parliament. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey described the bill as "good for the British economy, good for consumers, and...
View ArticleExtirpation Nation: How much of the US will be habitable in 50 years?
If the end is indeed near – say, within the next 50 years -- it will quite likely come in the form of extreme drought and/or nuclear contamination. A couple key maps help us flesh out these...
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