In the last decade, America has begun to rethink nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels and an environment solution. The disaster in Japan at the Fukushima nuclear power plant must start reevaluation of that policy. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and a host of other locations have suffered from poor plant management, corrosion [...]

Americans seem to be missing an important policy shift in Germany following the nuclear reactor disaster in Japan. According to German government official Matthias Kleiner, “Fukushima was a dramatic experience, seeing there that a high-technology nation can’t cope with such a catastrophe…nuclear power is a technology with too many inherent risks to inflict it on [...]

Here we are it’s 2011 and a US solar panel company has failed after the government invested into it. How could this be? In 2010 the US government issued more than $500,000,000 in guaranteed loans to a company named Solyndra who insisted they could builds a solar panel that worked better than any other solar [...]