William Tucker
On December 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, “the best mind since Einstein” and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology that is generally regarded to be the opening bell…
It’s a great title but I won’t take credit for it. Instead, it sits atop a marvelous article by Ross McCracken, an energy economist, in this month’s issue of Insight, the energy journal published by Platts. Like anybody who understands…
Watching the Rocky Mountain News go under and the Chicago Sun-Times declare bankruptcy, I feel, like everyone else, that we’re witnessing the end of an era. Most people lament the loss of reading culture and the attention span required to make it…
On March 28, 1979, a minor valve failed in the cooling loop of a power plant on a sand bar in the middle of the Susquehanna River and the world became familiar with the name “Three Mile Island.” The country’s…
“We know the right thing to do,” President Obama said about renewable energy at his press conference Tuesday. “We’ve known the right choice for a generation. The time has come to make that choice and act on what we know.…We…
One of the abiding illusions of the energy debate is that there is an all powerful “nuclear lobby” that is engineering the revival of nuclear power. What organizations could it possibly involve? The Nuclear Energy Institute has a modest budget…
I must admit I was surprised at the beauty of the Berkeley campus. I’ve always imagined it as a huge pavilion of protesting students shouting slogans as sixteen types of studs and rings dangle from their cheeks and ears. Instead…
Highly informed sources (don’t you love that phrase) tell us that Senate majority leader Harry “Hands-Off-Yucca-Mountain” Reid will be pushing for the Senate to adopt a national renewable energy portfolio within the next two weeks. Reid has reportedly told Senator…
Last week we passed a landmark when Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood madam, announced she was giving up plans to open The Stud Farm, Nevada’s first male brothel. Instead, she is putting her money into alternate energy. “It’s where the money…
Every once in a while, just when you think you’ve seen all there is to see of the liberals’ fecklessness, they surprise you again. This time it’s the idea for replacing Guantanamo with a program to “rehabilitate jihadists.” The idea…
