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South Carolina’s $9 billion nuclear fiasco – another legal saga develops, criminal investigation coming
3 years later: How the fallout from SC’s $9 billion nuclear fiasco continues Post and Courier, By Avery G. Wilks and Andrew Brown awilks@… South Carolina’s $9 billion nuclear fiasco – another legal saga develops, criminal investigation coming
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The War on Carbon Madness has Come to South Carolina, Check the IRP’s and Weep
The Great State of South Carolina is Following the Path of the Insane Net Zero Carbon Path Proposed by the D.C. Swamp I am writing this post because as I see it, the usually conservative, level headed elected officials in SC have become “Woke” with regard to energy policy and planning. Worse yet, they have…
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830,000 Btu’s per Day/Person
Congress and our President are in the process of forcing Net Zero Carbon, Green Energy on all of us. In my view what this will do is increase prices of energy, make our energy less reliable, make America less competitive and in general, harm our quality of life. In thinking about this and attempting to…
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A Short Summary of Why I Believe The War on Carbon is Wrong For America
AKA, “Net Zero 2050” I have written before on the “Green New Deal” and why it is wrong for America. However, it is now September and as I understand it, the Princeton University Study, Net Zero Carbon by 2050 is basically about to become law. Based on my career in power generation and including professional…
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93.5% of America’s energy is used in Heat-engines to drive our economy and power our comfortable lives: 80% is from fossil fuels
This huge amount of energy is not easily replaced by alternative fuels! My response to an ASME webinar on forcing a “Green Grid” on America. All Fuels Are Important, but Thermal Power Generation Is Still Number 1 Last month I participated in a continuing education webinar presented by the ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine. I was…
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Sustainability of our high quality of life depends on reasonable cost electricity
“Energy, is the only universal currency” The author of several books on energy, Vaclav Smil is quoted as saying “Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.” Most American citizens simply…
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FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, NEITHER WILL NET ZERO CARBON BE FREE
Reducing Reliability and Increasing Prices of Our Energy Supply Introduction Vaclav Klaus was the President of the Czech Republic in 2003. I have a copy of his book, “Blue Planet in Green Shackles” with the sub-title, “What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom” As I was straightening up my book case, I found this interesting insight…
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The Importance of Fossil Fuels and Why It Will Be Impossible to Eliminate them in My Grandchildren’s Lifetimes Without Harming Their Quality of Living and America’s Leadership in The World
Introduction America, the rest of the Developed World and the Developing Countries of the World all depend on Fossil Fuels to power Industry, Quality of Life, Transportation and strong Economy’s. In fact more than 85% of the energy used today is used in “Heat-Engines”. Think about your life today and what you depend on. A…
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Hydrogen, Part 1
A Primer on Hydrogen as a fuel Introduction There has been much talk and writing of proposed laws by Congress to create a transformational change to renewable power. Some of this has been described as the “New Green Deal”. I have checked the Biden Administration proposed Budget and read what the Democrats have proposed for…
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Energy, Human development index and economic prosperity
Two Examples: America in the 20th Century and China in the 21st I prepared for a presentation to USCB-OLLI on the history of Energy and Electricity. Along the way of preparing it hit me. Few professors of either history or engineering discuss the relationship of energy and Economic prosperity or for Developing Countries, the relationship…
Power for the U.S.A. 