Back in January, I wrote a little something about nuclear energy.
While nuclear power is still highly controversial in the United States, others see it has an option for clean, affordable alternative energy. Here’s a news item about China’s efforts to follow the footsteps of France and Japan in adopting nuclear power as a formidable source [...]
To follow up with the previous post, The Power of Wind, here’s a little something from The New American: Wind vs. Nuclear Power: Which Is Safer?. Basically, it argues that wind farms are more prone to accidents than nuclear plants.
While I don’t want to express my opinion on the matter (one nuclear disaster is far [...]
This is Part 4 of our series on “Intro to Power”. If you haven’t checked out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 already, I recommend that you do. I talked about the fundamentals to electricity generation, steam turbine power plants, and efficiency.
Now that you have a better understand of how most of today’s power plants work, [...]