Since Roger Ebert died I've been watching the tribute writers struggle to express his contribution.
At The Atlantic, Christopher Orr rightly describes Ebert as a movie enthusiast, but here's the analysis that follows: "The movies he loved, he truly…
2013
Shale gas deposits have been found in Poland, Argentina, China, Great Britain and other countries, but only the United States has fracked its shale gas into a national energy boom.
That's not for lack of will abroad, according to energy experts…
Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to efficiently extract hydrogen from plant materials, overcoming one of the obstacles that led the Obama Administration to put hydrogen fuel-cell technology on the back burner.
"We think this discovery is…
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed radiation-detection pods that can monitor airborne radiation using drones, without endangering human flight crews.
The "Harvester" system is designed to detect detonations of nuclear weapons.…
Commuters are more likely to stop using public transit when they experience delays they can blame on the transit agency, according to researchers at the University of California Berkeley.
They are more likely to forgive delays caused by traffic,…
This reactor does not use fission, the process of splitting atoms into smaller elements employed by every commercial power reactor currently operating on earth.
And it does not use hot fusion, the union of hydrogen atoms into larger elements that…
This is a tale of two editorials today: one in Utah, lambasting a lawmaker for trying to sneak a price hike into energy bills to pay for a proposed nuclear plant, and one in Florida, demanding the repeal of just such a price hike, which has collected…
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen cleared an initiative Wednesday that would shut down California's two existing nuclear power plants until the federal government figures out what to do with the used fuel—a process expected to take at least…
There's little hope that the 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel dispersed across the United States will ever be recycled, according to a recent study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory—so nearly all existing waste will go into the earth.
In a…
In a brief statement, BP hails Transocean's admission of criminal conduct today in a $1.4 billion settlement stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, saying it proves the "accident resulted from multiple causes,…
