Archive for 'General' Category


Did Stewart Brand start a cascade?

13 April 2005

It’s beginning to appear as though Stewart Brand and the related discussion going on around the Internet could be a trigger event for a preference cascade. Now that a well known and respected figure with undeniable credentials in the environmental world has come out in favor of nuclear energy, it may now be respectable for […]

Stewart Brand and nuclear power

8 April 2005

Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog has written an excellent article for the May 2005 issue of Technology Review. He predicts that mainstream environmental thought will change on four issues, population growth, urbani­zation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. The last one, nuclear power, is extremely important and if the environmental movement embraces […]

Hydrogen dreams

26 March 2005

Are advocates of the “hydrogen economy” telling the whole story? As someone who has spent the last twenty five years in complex, high tech field engineering (CT scanners, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine) and computer network and systems administration, I have learned to look very carefully for reasons and causes instead of appearances. Objective examination […]

Hydrogen over hyped?

24 March 2005

Just like our tagline over on the right says, this is a zero-hype look at hydrogen power. Seems someone else has noticed the huge amount of breathless reporting going on where hydrogen will soon solve all of our problems. Not yet, not even soon. Canada and Europe both have a lot of activity going on […]