Converting Coal to Natural Gas

Mining Industry Converts Coal to Clean-Burning Natural Gas | Mining Exploration News
A Cambridge start-up that converts coal to clean-burning natural gas will take its cutting-edge process to the next step, building a $25 million demonstration plant near Fall River to ready their technology for full-scale commercial production.
“This is where we are going to demonstrate our [...]

Nuclear Energy is (can be) Renewable

Nuclear energy is not renewable if we discard nuclear fuel after one use.  This uses, and wastes much of, the only fissile nuclear energy source, uranium-235.  The U-235 is just 0.7% of natural uranium.

But nuclear energy is renewable if we recycle the fuel. The U-235 can then convert the billions of tons of uranium-238 [...]

The horrible realities of wind power in Maine

The horrible realities of wind power in Maine
Maine anti-wind claims address the limits of needing to put turbines along mountain ridges. This statement does not point out that even 1000 MWe of wind power would only produce about one-third of the power produced by the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant.  Maine Yankee should still [...]

We Need to Build 5,000 – 6,000 Nuclear Power Plants by the 2050s to Meet World Energy Needs

We Need to Build 5,000 – 6,000 Nuclear Power Plants by the 2050s to Meet World Energy Needs 
If we can get one-third of world energy from nuclear power sources (which is 100% of 1990 world energy use), can we get renewables and fossil fuels to DOUBLE 1990 energy use to provide two-thirds of the world’s 2050s energy [...]

U.S. Natural Gas Production and Cost Constraints?

Do arbitrary legislative and regulatory constraints in the name of the “environment” unnecessarily limit access to low-cost natural gas resources – at great cost for business and home heating bills, for fertilizers and industrial use, including hydrogen production?  Is there a possibility of greatly increasing the current 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas from [...]