GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

After a 20 years moratorium on nuclear power Italy has taken the bull at the horn and plans to shed all the dependency on unreliable Russian natural gas (NG) and Middle East crude.  Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Germany as well as Great Britain are following the economical path for carbon restriction...

There is considerable interest in producing transportation fuels from non-food agricultural products.  The high price and short supply of diesel oil represents more of an economic penalty to the US than gasoline. and attempts are being made to find the right kind of feedstock with high enough...

AF has decided to be strategically independent of foreign crude for jet fuel. The solution is synfuels to jet fuels via FT (Fischer Tropsch) from coal. 

Independent refinery and marketing companies like Tesoro and Valero try to stem the margin squeeze, caused by increased crude and utility prices, to produce more profitable diesel instead of gasoline. 

    The recent plunge in SO2 allowance prices may affect the decisions of coal-fired power plant owners.

T. Boon Pickens has ordered $2 billion worth of GE 1.5 MW wind turbines for his 1,000 MW Mesa wind power project in Texas. 

The transition of the former Russian prime minister to chairman of Gazprom is proceeding according to Putin's wishes.  The most interesting part of the article is the coinciding announcement that Gazprom has signed a supply agreement with the Candian Rabaska consortium to supply LNG to a LNG terminal...

    The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on February 8, 2009 in favor of the plaintiffs that coal plants could not be removed from the list of mercury sources subject to a Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) standard and the subsequent movements to require EPA to set...

The current optoelectronics market for GaN dwarfs applications in the high-power electronics category, which will remain the case unless comparable GaN-on-silicon technology is enabled.  Currently, SiC and GaN are designated for high-end defense-related electronic applications, and it will...

DOE report discusses feasibility of present wind power generation of 16.8 gigawatts (GW) to 300 GW by 2030, the same amount nuclear power would generate.