Letter to the Zuckerbergs

Letter to the Zuckerbergs

Tom D. Tamarkin – 5545 El Camino Avenue – Carmichael, CA 95608 – 916-482-2000 Ext 142 Pat Boone – 9220 Sunset Blvd Suite 310 – Los Angeles, CA 90069 – 310-858-0044 Via Federal Express Overnight December 2, 2015 Mr. Mark Zuckerberg Dr. Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg 1456 Edgewood Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Ref: Energy & … Read more

Demand management: how Duke Energy plans to integrate EV charging

Metering.com Posted by: Metering International December 9, 2014 US utility Duke Energy and Siemens this month revealed results of a demonstration of their new electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). The EV charging system, which has been approved by Underwriters Laboratories, aims to gives consumers a better understanding of how much it costs to charge their … Read more

Irvin Lindemuth, Ph.D.

Irvin Lindemuth, Ph.D.

Dr. Irvin Lindemuth is by many measures considered to be the “father” of the Magnetized Target branch of fusion energy research and proposed solutions to commercial power. Recognizing that the facility cost was a large component of the R&D cost which was the principal impediment to the progress of fusion development at the time, around … Read more

Inside the Dynomak: A Fusion Technology Cheaper Than Coal

Modifying the most common type of experimental reactor might finally make fusion power feasible By Evan Ackerman Posted 26 Nov 2014 | 16:00 GMT Photo: Michelle Ma/University of Washington Helicity Hero: A trio of “magnetic helicity injectors” are the key to the University of Washington’s HIT-SI3 fusion experiment. Fusion power has many compelling arguments in … Read more

Robert J. Goldston

Robert J. Goldston

Robert J. Goldston Professor of Astrophysical Sciences goldston@pppl.gov 609-243-3550 BackStory with Joan Goldstein, 6.15 Inertial Confinement Fusion R&D and Nuclear Proliferation Education B.A., Physics, Harvard University, 1972 Ph.D., Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, 1977 Research Interests I started my research career studying how plasmas are heated by energetic ions. I did experimental … Read more

Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts

https://www.nature.com/news/plasma-physics-the-fusion-upstarts-1.15592 Fuelled by venture capital and a lot of hope, alternative fusion technologies are heating up. Hubert Kang Photography General Fusion’s reactor would use massive pistons to crush fuel in a spinning vortex of liquid lead. To reach one of the world’s most secretive nuclear-fusion companies, visitors must wind their way through a suburban office … Read more

Fusion Energy: Hope or Hype?

By David Bailey and Jonathan Borwein, Huffington Post David H. Bailey Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (retired) and University of California, Davis Jonathan M. Borwein Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Australia The IPCC Report’s Warning The latest draft edition of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report bluntly warns that business-as-usual increases … Read more

Alan Caruba’s Review of Cracking Big Green

Alan Caruba It is doubtful that most Americans and others around the world know how vast the organizational structure of the environmental movement is and how much wealth it generates for those engaged in an agenda that would drag humanity back to the Stone Age.  If that sounds extreme, consider a world without access to … Read more

The Obama war on pipelines

By Paul Driessen Nov. 1, 2014 Expedite wind and solar – but block coal, oil, gas, pipelines, jobs and economic recovery “This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,” Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufacturing industries are also far different from … Read more

Breaking Russia’s energy stranglehold

By Paul Driessen Sept. 29, 2014 Europe cannot afford to have its foreign and domestic policies dictated by Putin’s blackmail European Union nations want to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and providing the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. However, they are worried about biting the hand that feeds … Read more