The intent of this web site is to encourage individuals, companies, and institutions to explore ways to use the increasingly wide spectrum of tiny to huge, fast and slow neutron nuclear reactors to deliver their unlimited nuclear energy to end Global Warming. 

This is an educational web site expressing a pro-energy "Professional Opinion" about Global Warming.  Holding a Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Western Michigan University and a Professional Engineer registration in Control System Engineering in the State of California (CS-400), I am an engineer who specialized in electronic control systems for very large industrial applications.  I worked for a utility engineering consulting company  (Commonwealth Associates, Jackson, Michigan, 1956 - 1960) on electricity generating plants and spent 1958-59 doing electrical instrumentation on Fermi l, a fast-neutron breeder reactor power generating plant located at Monroe, Michigan. 

I later spent 28 years in Upjohn Pharmaceutical's electrical engineering unit (Photo: 1996 retirement party snapshot).  Upjohn was Michigan's largest non-Detroit consumer of electricity, big enough to have dual 138,000 volt "Hi-Line" transmission lines feeding their main production complex's substation in Portage, Michigan.

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This unsponsored educational web site about the environment and energy independence is the pro bono effort of a retired engineer who has spent 40+ years working in and around heavy public electric utility and large industrial energy management systems.  Holding three patents in control systems and one in acoustics, in 1982 the Association of Energy Engineers granted the title of "Certified Energy Manager" to the author, a long-time carbon conservationist who thinks our Jurassic-Age carbon heritage that took 150 million years to accumulate is being foolishly squandered by burning.

Accuracy: Born Digital? I make very heavy use of Wikipedia, a good place to start if you need to get up to speed on some subject fast.  I'm definitely not a "Nuclear Nerd" or expert, I'm trying to present only honest, verifiable facts and practical proposals on this web site.  I think I know in general terms what I am talking about but will often revise or add items as they emerge from the fog of thought, afterthought, or new knowledge.  I try to keep the information presented on Coal2nuclear referable to experts.  I'm not a recognized expert in anything, certainly not nuclear energy or climatology.  I know I can be terribly wrong, confused, and able to misstate anything clearly.  Please let me know if you think I've got something wrong.   Early Energy Experiences   Childhood introduction to repowering concepts

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About The Web Site  

My Objective: To have these ideas for CO2 mitigation on all the CO2 mitigation lists along side all the others.  We might need to move very quickly some day. 

I am also concerned we substantially increase our electricity energy supply rapidly since we will need abundant electrical energy to surmount difficulties caused by both climate change and oil shortages.

The Idea: The idea of converting from coal-burning boilers to nuclear boilers to mitigate CO2 is very obvious, so I suspect the reason others aren't talking about it is because the idea is extremely politically incorrect.  There are thousands who could tell this story better and tell it through more widely read media.  I'm hoping they do so.  This is my version in the only publically-accessible media available to me.

Much incorrect and misleading information about nuclear technology is being published these days - often in popular science magazines like "Scientific American."  These articles typically repeat the clichés, ignorance, and fears of things nuclear from Cold War propaganda 40 years ago, frequently by long out of touch authors twice as old as that.  I'm trying to get things right and not add to the large amounts of misinformation that is causing so much anxiety in the general public about both Global Warming and its most effective cure, nuclear electricity. 

Global Warming is at least partially the result of our government closing access to nuclear electricity technology to all except the largest, most powerful, most conservative and most subservient industrial companies.  This created the living definition of a "Closed Platform", leaving the world with no choice but to burn ever-increasing amounts of fossil fuels.

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