Musings and analysis on marketing, buzz and communications.
By Mike Mulvihill
Did you hear it – that tiny peel of a bell? It came from somewhere over by the resurgent nuclear power industry. And it’s not good.
Constellation Energy announced Saturday it was unable to obtain a workable U.S. loan guarantee for its new nuclear power plant in Maryland being built in partnership with Electricite [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
We’re using less energy – seriously. No, it’s not that we’re using fewer barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity as our population grows. But according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, we’ve made tremendous progress in using energy more efficiently. In fact, Dr. Mark Perry’s blog post based on the EIA data concludes [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
The art of debate has given way to the bully pulpit of the zealous. Red states versus blue states, FOX conservative demagogues versus liberal MSNBC whack jobs and environmentalists versus business. Regardless of the correctness of their premise, zealots have created most of the world’s most serious ills – outside of pandemics – [...]
By Mike Mulvihill
Before the powerful pheromone of green energy seduces the nation into scrapping our existing energy infrastructure, perhaps it would be good to look more closely at those alternative power sources.
Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, penned an article in the Washington Post a few weeks back on the myths of green [...]
by Mike Mulvihill
Photo by Laban West. Lightning over Muskogee Power Plant, Muskogee OK.
Last week the number of the week was 30,000 – that’s how many servers support Facebook’s operations. (No wonder, Facebook produces 25TB – yep, tera-bytes – of log data per day). The numbers comes from Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook, [...]
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