U.K. finance minister George Osborne just admitted Britain is back in recession, and U.S. fed chairman Ben Bernanke wondered out loud if the Fed might buy more U.S. government bonds to make sure interest rates stay low while the government tries to coax unemployment to fall below 8 percent. Meanwhile, the U.K. prime minister...
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High paid jobs and cheap reliable energy go together: what the U.S., U.K., and Canada need to do now
Obama and Keystone: is McGuinty playbook out the window?
In late January, the U.S. president halted progress on the Keystone XL pipeline, which will—when it is finally built—bring Alberta syncrude from Oklahoma to the Texas gulf coast. The pipeline currently runs from the Alberta oilsands to Oklahoma. I speculated at the time that Obama had torn a page out of Ontario premier Dalton...
The new industrial economy takes shape at NGNP
It’s exciting and fascinating to watch the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) take shape. The NGNP is a graphite moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor that draws on nearly half a century of R&D and operational experience with these kinds of reactors in the civilian nuclear sector. This will be a high-temperature machine—above 700 °C at the...
Clean, cheap industrial heat coming soon: Next Generation Nuclear Plant marches on
I am always glad when I hear of research and development dollars going to deserving projects led by deserving researchers. Today (August 16) I read a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $1.1 million to a UW-Madison researcher to develop ways...
Ontario natural gas strategy will make environmental implications of Keystone pipeline irrelevant
Environmentalists who make a big deal out of opposing the proposed expansion of the Keystone pipeline do so on the grounds of the sheer amount of carbon it represents. The proposal is about extending the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas; it already crosses the Canada-U.S. border. The Canadian version of the Sierra Club in...
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