Bill Gates’ Green Premium
Bill Gates discusses what he calls the Green Premium, which is the extra costs that it takes for us to transition all the way to clean energy, from dirty energy
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US Senate passes Nuclear Energy Leadership Act but reconciliation remains
The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA, S.903) which had 22 bipartisan co-sponsors, was introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA, S.4049) by
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US agency ends ban, will now finance advanced nuclear projects abroad
The US International Development Finance Corporation has ended a ban on financing nuclear power projects and “will prioritize the support of advanced nuclear technology in emerging and frontier markets,” the
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Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
Wired Magazine dives deep on TRISO pebble fuel, which consists of particles of an alien-looking fuel with built-in safety features that will safely power a new generation of high-temperature reactors.
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Wind and Solar Power Advance, but Carbon Refuses to Retreat
The world’s carbon intensity of energy, namely the amount of CO2 spewed into the air for each unit of energy consumed, has not budged much Kyoto was held, 20 years
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Fisticuffs Over the Route to a Clean-Energy Future
Democrats in the United States Senate and in the California Assembly have proposed legislation calling for a full transition to renewable energy. In doing so, they are relying on scholarly
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Energy Sprawl is Impacting Open Spaces
American energy demand already has posed huge impacts on land use but, as we transition to ever more dilute forms of energy, primarily solar, wind and biofuels, the land required
Rise of the Nuclear Greens
Robert Bryce, a highly respected author and now film producer, who recently released the film “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World,” attempted to tackle the counter-intuitive phenomena that was being
Bill Gates’ Innovating to Zero TED Talk
Bill Gates’ TED talk in 2010 provided a huge amount of inspiration to us, when we first began this journey exploring the potential of investing in Advanced Nuclear. In this