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The senior Senator from New Mexico, Pete V. Domenici, has written a thoughtful assessment of the progress Americans have made in their efforts to bring the benefits of nuclear power to mankind. He outlines what went wrong and why, and in this noble quest, what we must now do to recover from and repudiate past blunders. Senator Domenici has been called Congress' chief apostle for nuclear power and in this book he shares his vision and passion for a renewed commitment, by this nation, and the rest of the world, to the dreams that nuclear energy can help us fulfill. It is also a book about what kind of world our grandchildren could inhabit if we fail in making and keeping such a commitment. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Some Good Points!.......2005-12-31
Senator Domenici believes that most opposition to nuclear power plants is emotional and uninformed. For example, nuclear power plants in U.S. submarines dock regularly around the world without objection (except one port in New Zealand), France generates about 80% of its electric power from nuclear plants and reprocesses the fuel to reduce the amount of waste by a factor of four, and transporting an equivalent amount of fuel to a coal-fired plant involves 14,000 times more motive power.
"A Brighter Tomorrow" also informs us that nuclear power requires only 1/120th the land of wind or solar power; the fuel cost for nuclear generated power is only 26% of the total, vs. 85% for natural gas.
Hopefully efforts by Senator Domenici will succeed in reducing our reliance on carbon-based energy sources, thereby reducing air pollution, global warming, reliance on the mid-East, indirect subsidization of terrorism, need for U.S. military involvement in the mid-East, and vulnerability to oil production declines predicted to occur within ten years. (Yes, little electricity is used for transportation - however, Domenici sees the possibility of generating hydrogen for autos from nuclear power plants.)
problems with a brighter tomorrow (nuclear energy).......2005-12-18
I like Pete. He's good for NM; but, don't read this book if you want "the whole truth" about nuclear power costs/benefits in our future. Do read it if you want to understand Pete, U.S. Legislative "dealing" and bad science represented as good science.
Your first indication should be Pete's calculation of why it's OK for him to have 8 kids in a global population glut. If he can't get his allocation to be 5, as an ex math teacher, that tells you the quality of the rest of his calculations. (And is he allocating a "baby permit market" here? No he really didn't think that far--which is another problem.)
That he projects world population through and beyond the carrying capacity of the planet is a problem too. The lack of "proper treatment" of externalized costs (haven't heard of them? THATS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM--HE DOESN'T DEAL WITH THEM), concerns me a lot.
I have seen Pete be easily swayded, and most of the rest of the Congressional types are just as easily swayed, by partial "techie" demos many a time. This work shows its cumulative effect!
The proper sequence for validating future offerings in science and engineering goes: completed science, then technology development (proper RDT&E, a common acronym that needs to be more widely known and used that stands for the sequence of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation), then engineering proof of viability, then commercial proof of viability, then system analysis (another unspoken of item of "sane science legislation), then and only then to Pete's "rules for proceeding" (legislatively I assume he means)!
Certainly read his book for info on Pete and Congressional practices, then be usre to read more of the rest of the future nuclear energy "world story" though.
But why Subsidies.......2005-04-30
A Brighter Tomorrow, Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy
Senator Pete V. Domenici with Blythe J. Lyons and Julian J Steyn
Rowman and Littlefield, USA 2004
There are many reasons to be grateful to Senator Domenici for writing this book. Nuclear power provides inexpensive electricity and heat when and where you need it without demanding trainloads of coal or tankers of oil or gas to feed the power plant. Nuclear fuel, with its essential U-235 is one million times as energy rich as coal, and we have abundant supplies remaining in the USA.
Who could explain the extraordinary safety record of nuclear power, yet the inordinate fear of nuclear power plants? It does not make sense. Senator Domenici sees clearly and throughout the book explains his efforts to do what is right, not what is fashionable. Unfortunately fashion has ruled and today, despite the great success and proven safety of nuclear power, we have no new power plants. Instead we have unfounded fears and smug empty-headed victors threatening to unfound other parts of our economy. They frighten the public away from nuclear power by convincing the public that because a lot of radiation can kill people rapidly a little radiation spread around the globe will surely kill millions slowly. This isn't true. Our schools and newspapers should do as Senator Domenici recommends, try and spread what is true. Radiation near our nuclear power plants and submarines is safe. In fact, it probably prolongs life. We creatures thrive in low levels of radiation. There is a word for it, Hormesis, and many studies of the phenomenon. Today, understanding that radiation does not lead to doom is as important as knowing the world is round, not flat.
Reading A Brighter Tomorrow is made difficult by replacing names with initials. Who can remember the dozens and dozens of code initials? IAEA, NTI, HEU, FSU. I picked these off a page opened at random, page 146. If the words were spelled out, the book would only be a page or two longer and the reader would understand what he was reading.
I would recommend that the senator do a second edition with a chapter explaining what goes on in a nuclear reactor, how elements are transformed and heat generated. But Senator Domenici is up to something so destructive I worry how we will fare with or without nuclear power. Free enterprise is evidently now a thing of the past. Senator Domenici, in the first ten chapters convinces the reader that nuclear power is economical. Then on chapter 11, page 215, he states that he tirelessly supports a 1.8¢ / kWh tax credit for new nuclear power plants. (He also supports the same subsidy for solar and wind power) Multiply it out for yourself. On page 207 read that we need 335 GWE of new power plants (I presume subsidized nuclear). At 1.8¢ per kWh the product is $6,030,000 per hour.
Five thousand hours of that in a year is thirty billion dollars! Senator Domenici will rob us blind. What can he be thinking? Those who use the electricity should pay for it. If it is bad for us to burn fossil fuels then let's raise the price of doing so, not arrange subsidies for certain favored alternatives.
Lobbyists and politicians must worry that raising prices might cause our appetite for electricity to slacken; that we will turn the lights off in the day and hang the clothes on clotheslines. Thus, they plan to have taxes pay for our power. So, we'll know we better use it because we already paid for it.
I love this book - Senator Domenici has my vote!.......2005-04-10
Senator Domenici has written a compelling story, one that will give you an insider's view of the politics and history of nuclear energy in America. A brighter tomorrow - fulfilling the promise of nuclear energy is a must read for anyone who cares about energy independence. The book is also a good read if you just want to know what happened to nuclear energy development in the USA.
Pete Domenici has written more than just a history of nuclear energy - he also tells us about the current efforts in Congress to revitalize the nuclear industry. The need for nuclear energy today cannot be overstated, because it is the only proven, emission free energy source that can provide reliable baseload electricity to our national grid.
Imagine if you could fill the gas tank in you car once, and then drive continuously for a full year without needing to fill up again. That is what nuclear fuel does for a nuclear power plant. This means that nuclear energy is not vulnerable to the problems of short term price swings created by spikes in demand. Nuclear energy will never suffer the fuel shortages and price swings that threaten power plants that are dependent on natural gas.
In this book, Senator Pete Domenici, who is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, describes what he believes would be the solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Only the most fearful and foolish people believe technology has reached its limits. It is self-evident that technology will advance beyond our present capabilities. Many futurists would say that is an understatement. Because scientific knowledge is growing geometrically, it is certain that future technology will be capable of reducing or eliminating the dangers of nuclear waste.
The Senator has proposed that spent nuclear fuel be transferred from the nuclear plant on site storage pools, to a federal interim storage site where it would be kept above ground for the next 50 to 75 years - Safely guarded and available for research. During that 50-75 years extensive investment in reprocessing and transmutation technology will advance to the point where spent nuclear fuel will no longer be considered a problem. The radioactivity can be changed so that it decays to the level of natural uranium in less than 500 years, rather than thousands of years. And the total volume, which is already small by comparison to any other type of waste, would be less than 5% of the volume removed from a power plant today, because of advanced fuel reprocessing.
Senator Domenici cites Dr. Denis Beller's essay, Atomic Time Machines. The essay can be found on the internet at AmericanEnergyIndependence.com in the nuclear section where it is title "back to the nuclear future". Dr. Beller describes the technology, called Transmutation, which can neutralize radioactive material.
I think the book gave a fair and accurate description of the anti-nuclear groups. The Senator exposes the deceptive practices of the anti-nuclear groups. Nuclear energy is not a right-wing conspiracy. Congressional support for nuclear energy is a bipartisan initiative, one that includes support from Democrats and prominent environmentalists:
"Environmental opposition to nuclear energy is the greatest misunderstanding and mistake of the century."
-James Lovelock, leading environmentalist, creator of the Gaia theory.
I believe if John Muir were alive today, he would join James Lovelock and Senator Domenici in support of nuclear energy. John Muir was not afraid of technology. He would have understood that nuclear energy is a technology that can help preserve our natural wilderness and at the same time help to advance economic progress.
Make Energy Not War
Future wars could be prevented if everyone who has taken a stand against the war in Iraq would turn their passion toward the goal of American Energy Independence. Standing against war is not enough - Standing together for Energy Independence will create a positive political force and a shared national dream - Peace through energy independence.
Nuclear energy is vital to fulfill the promise of energy independence.
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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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- Fine-quality photos, but poor proofreading
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America from Space
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From the sprawling cities of California to Maine's island-flecked coast, from the glaciers of Alaska to the beaches of Florida, here is the United States as you have never seen it before.
America from Space takes you into orbit over the United States. You see what Space Shuttle astronauts see when they aim their camera at their homeland. Here is America by night, a breathtaking view of the entire nation pulsating with lights marking cities and suburbs. Here are the Great Lakes, the mountains and cities, rivers and seashores -- each image a piece of the nation. Together they create a unique and fascinating portrait of the United States of America.
Sections of this book include:
Fire and Ice: Hawaii and Alaska
The West Coast: from Washington to the Mexican border
The West: the wild lands of deserts and canyon
The Rockies: the backbone of the continent
The Heartland: the grandeur of the Great Plains
The Great Lakes: deep waters and fertile lands
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In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, stunning views are transformed into geological data: bright yellow marks an oil field, orange shows a mesa; red, purple and blue color irrigated field. In a flood region of Texas, varying blue and purple shades show what lands were under water.
What the images show most of all is the beauty of the land and the seas that touch it. "Life is like landscape," Charles Lindbergh wrote after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. "You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." Here is a new vantage point, a new way of seeing and understanding our country.
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Fine-quality photos, but poor proofreading.......2005-09-07
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I've always been fascinated by satellite photos of earth, and I own
several books of them. This has better-quality reproduction than any
of mine, and is focussed on the USA, which is nice if you live here.
I might quibble with the large number of false-color photos -- but
then there are some nice side-by-side comparison shots too. The text
is so-so & bears signs of hasty and careless composition: New Orleans
is described as "five miles below sea level"; there's a "Vertical"
Assembly Building at NASA's Canaveral spaceport -- but the photos
are bright and clear. I'm particularly taken by one meandering-river
shot (p. 96), where you can almost see the meander-bends moving,
whipping back & forth across the flood plain. Or check out the
wonderful Ouachita ridge-&-valley shot at p.92-93. At least have a
look at a library copy -- I'll probably buy one if I see it at a good price.
review copyright 1999 by Peter D. Tillman
Consulting Geologist, Tucson & Santa Fe (USA)
Book of colored pictures, not photographs.......2002-05-18
The colored pictues are amazingly beautiful, and there are lots of them showing fine details of the US. The only thing you have to think about before buying this book is that they are not true-color photographs. The satellite digitally recorded infrared reflection from the earth surface. (Various objects reflect diferent infrared wavelengths). Since the infrared has no color, the colors had to be assigned to them. Even though you end up with very detailed pictures of spectacular colors, they are not their true colors. If you want a true-color (and even more beutiful) book of photograps from space, you should buy the book "Orbit" by National Geographic Society. It has true-color photographs taken by hand-held cameras of astronauts. I own both books and love them both, but if you have to choose one, "Orbit" is a clear winner..
Photographs of the USA Taken From Space.......2001-04-11
This book contains over a hundred color photographs of the United States, some of which are digitally enhanced, taken by remote sensing satellites and space shuttle astronauts. A small amount of text and a location of a map accompanies each photograph.
The book presents most of the major geological features of the United States and has at least one photograph from each state. As someone who has traveled and lived in many places in the USA, some of them quite remote, I was amazed to see what geological features I had overlooked. There are also a good number of photographs showing some of the major cities in America.
If you like good photography or geology, this book is definitely for you.
pleasant viewing.......2000-02-08
I liked the book alright I would of liked to work on it als
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Interesting Book On An Important Topic!.......2002-07-31
David Suzuki is a well-known Canadian intellectual who is playing a vital role in the ongoing debate regarding the natural environment and the future of the human (as well as all the other) species. Educated as a natural scientist, he is a former educator now working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is also the author of such books as "God's Final Offer" (see my review). He is considered, both within Canada and without, to be one of the most credible and reputable critics of corporate and government policies concerning the natural environment. In this series of essays entitled "Earth Time: Essays" he takes thoughtful aim at the myriad of problems associated with the changes in the natural environment as we now enter the new millennium.
These essays cover such provocative issues as corporate globalization and its manifest effects on the environment as well as the associated changes to the climate, the deadening effect of political shortsightedness, the baleful legacy being created by both individual and organized greed, and the curiously willful blindness of those who should know better but choose to cast a blind eye to all that is happening around them. Yet this is not a simple desultory philippic on the evils of humankind; instead it is also a stirring call to arms for those of us who are looking for practical methods and devices to use to stem the negative tide swirling around us.
Suzuki gives us hope by showing us the sources for strength and hope, ranging from nature itself to ingenuous local political initiatives as well as educating our children beyond the consumption modality our generations seem so fatefully caught within. I recommend this book along with the previously mentioned title, both of which will measurably enhance any reader's grasp on the total range of effects of the current environmental crisis. I highly recommend it. Enjoy!
A Great Collection of Essays and Articles.......2002-04-25
Suzuki is an extremely profound and inspirational environmentalist. His perspective is essential. Trained as a geneticist, his approach is well-grounded in facts, but he writes with the ease and fluidity of a novelist. An important, useful and engaging book. You can never go wrong with Suzuki. Check out "From Naked Ape to Superspecies" and "The Sacred Balance" - two other good books by this gifted writer.
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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by NPT Publishing Group, Inc. on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1479 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Groups Bringing Space own To Earth For Students.(Space Day and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum)
Author: Matthew Sinclair
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The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
Volume: 15
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Title: Saving the Earth, one design at a time.(SPECIAL REPORT: Sustainable Design & Construction)
Author: Barbara Nelson
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Date: April 27, 2005
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