by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 26, 2017 | • Politics, Energy
How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter carried the last remnants of some of the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had brandished in the cold war. During the past 20 years...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 25, 2017 | Energy
Death Rate From Nuclear Power Vs Coal? This May Surprise You Seth Godin recently posted this simplified chart, from an altogether more complicated one. He maintains that this is a simple yet non-exaggerated version of the complicated one. The point is that for each...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 24, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Energy
Trump Owns Stake In Hotly Disputed $3.8 Billion Oil Pipeline, Conflict Of Interest Looms Activists of the Dakota Access Pipeline say they will deny a federal order to leave the land they are protesting on. The $3.8 billion pipeline is earmarked to transport 470,000...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 25, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy, Science
Renewables just passed coal as the largest source of new electricity worldwide It’s been a long run, coal, but your reign is over. Renewable energy sources have passed coal as the largest new source of electricity in the world, according data released Tuesday by...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 11, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy
Here are 6 reasons why nuclear needs to be a key part of America’s energy mix This feature was produced in collaboration between Vox Creative and Nuclear Energy Institute. Vox editorial staff was not involved in the creation or production of this content....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 29, 2016 | Agriculture, Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy
Study Finds Biofuels Worse for Climate than Gasoline Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a science journal on Thursday, with a team of scientists using a new approach to conclude...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 21, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy
John Oliver to oil lobby: You bozos picked the wrong man to plagiarize Incredulous British person and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has a new nemesis: the American Petroleum Institute. Oliver pointed out on Sunday that the lobbying arm of the oil industry aired a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 13, 2016 | Donald Trump, Energy, The 2016 Presidential Race
A closer look at Trump’s sentence-like word strings on coal, China, and the size of the Earth If you’ve been following the news lately, you’re probably aware that Donald Trump has been saying things. In fact, it seems like scarcely a day passes that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 12, 2016 | Energy
Scotland just produced enough wind energy to power it for an entire day For the first time on record, wind turbines have generated more electricity than was used in the whole of Scotland on a single day. An analysis by conservation group WWF Scotland found...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 12, 2016 | Economics & The Economy, Energy
New study: it would be cheap to retrain coal workers for solar jobs Coal is dying in the US, and solar is booming. That’s good news for a whole variety of reasons, but it sucks for the people who work in the coal industry, which has shed 50,000 jobs in the last...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 5, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy
Figuring out exactly what Donald J. Trump plans to do about climate and energy is near impossible. 6 things we learned from Donald Trump’s first big energy speech When it comes to energy policy, the 2016 presidential election really isn’t all that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 24, 2016 | Energy
Most of the people I know have and unnatural exaggerated misinformed fear of nuclear energy production. Leave it to Cracked.com to give us a look inside… I Work In A Nuclear Power Plant: 5 Insane...
