The US Department of Energy is to help push forward the manufacture of small modular nuclear reactors through new cost-sharing arrangements with private industry to support design and licensing activities.
So the assumption is that we will pass through The Point Of No Return: the point of no return is 2 degrees Celsius higher; 450 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, to put it in a more scientific phrasing. Everybody in the business reckons we're going to 500, 550, if we're lucky, before…
The President and his first-term Administration have encumbered American energy policy with subsidies, mandates, and micromanagement. Energy Secretary nominee Dr. Ernest Moniz seems to offer a seamless continuation of this approach by advocating a policy that dictates or manipulates the production, use, and path of energy in America from Washington. While energy policy is often more complex, the following quotes and excerpts are meant to provide some insight into Dr. Moniz’s thinking on a particular set of issues. On Climate Change