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	<description>Seeking reliable, objective sources on economics, foreign-policy and energy-policy issues.</description>
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		<title>Japan’s Slow-Motion Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart commentary from Ken Rogoff at Project Syndicate:


  (&#8230;) So what gives? First, things look a lot grimmer when one gets two hours outside of Tokyo to places like Hokkaido. These poorer outlying regions are hugely dependent on public-works projects for employment. As the government’s fiscal position has steadily weakened, the jobs have become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100310/japan%e2%80%99s-slow-motion-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Economics in One Picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mankiw


  
    
  

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		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100310/economics-in-one-picture/</link>
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		<title>Climate pioneer backs tax on carbon, nuclear power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Hansen gets it:


  Dr Hansen, Ziggy Switkowski and Erica Smyth will debate Molly Harriss Olson, Mark Diesendorf and Jim Green tonight at Melbourne Town Hall from 6.30pm on whether Australia should embrace nuclear power. The Age is a partner for the IQ2 debate.

(&#8230;) Where Dr Hansen &#8211; who brought global warming to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/climate-pioneer-backs-tax-on-carbon-nuclear-power/</link>
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		<title>What Happened at Chernobyl?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very short and readable explanation of what happened at Chernobyl:


  Mathew King is a Reactor Operator at the Nuclear Radiation Center at Washington State University. When Mat isn’t safely operating a nuclear reactor, he can be found commenting and contributing here at Nuclear Fissionary. Today he will help us understand the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/what-happened-at-chernobyl/</link>
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		<title>Nuclear Fission for Dummies: Moderation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Gamble explains very clearly how moderation is required to enable nuclear fission, why American reactors are inherently unable to runaway like Chernoble. It really isn&#8217;t that hard to understand, so do read the whole thing.


  (&#8230;) Everything in moderation. It would seem the universal slogan for healthy living applies to subatomic particles as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/nuclear-fission-for-dummies-moderation/</link>
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		<title>Treachery Or Common Sense?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  To the greens who accuse me of treachery I say this: we do not have a moral obligation to support all forms of renewable energy, however inefficient and expensive they may be. We do have a moral obligation not to be blinded by sentiment. We owe it to the public, and to our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/treachery-or-common-sense/</link>
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		<title>Energy density: one ton of Thorium produces one GW for one year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to a query from David MacKay (author of &#8220;Sustainable Energy &#8212; Without the Hot Air&#8221;), Charles Barton has assembled authoritative evidence of the energy conversion ratio. The result is the same order of magnitude whether the primary fuel is thorium or uranium. Here is one fragment of the analysis &#8212; via email from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/energy-density-one-ton-of-thorium-produces-one-gw-for-one-year/</link>
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		<title>Sierra Club&#8217;s Carl Pope Pushing Natural Gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hypocrisy of the Sierra Club and FOE is just stunning:


  Thanks Rod Adams! It&#8217;s good to see the national director of the Sierra Club exhibiting rank hypocrisy by pushing the same natural-gas that killed six workers and destroyed a $1B facility only four weeks ago. The same national director of the Sierra Club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/sierra-clubs-carl-pope-pushing-natural-gas/</link>
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		<title>CBO on the President&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I read the CBO reestimate, Greg Mankiw was correct. This CBO chart merits close study:


  
    
  In my most recent Times column about the President&#8217;s budget, I wrote,

  
    Making matters worse, these bleak budget projections are based on relatively optimistic economic assumptions. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100309/cbo-on-the-presidents-budget/</link>
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		<title>The Pretence of Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles recommended to me the 1974 Nobel Prize lecture by Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek. Hayek is always worth consulting to firm up our footings &#8212; and this lecture is an efficient way to access the founder of the Austrian school:


  (&#8230;) as a profession we have made a mess of things.
After reading the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100308/the-pretence-of-knowledgehayek-the-pretence-of-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>The solar ponzi scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The well-off can afford to buy &#8220;feel good&#8221; solar panels, these panels being heavily subsidized by taxes paid by everyone. The wealthy can then sell back excess power from their subsidized panels (which raises the cost of electricity to everyone due to the high cost of solar). So the lower classes taxes are used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100308/the-solar-ponzi-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Esquire on IFR and Eric Loewen &#8220;the Man Who Could End Global Warming&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised to see a rather good article on the Integral Fast Reactor in Esquire magazine. This excerpt recaps the beginning of GE&#8217;s effort to commercial the IFR technology as the PRISM program (Power Reactor, Innovative Small Module):


  (&#8230;) In April 2006, GE hired him and handed him a giant file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100308/esquire-on-ifr-and-eric-loewen-the-man-who-could-end-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Better Place opens EV center in Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zowwee Batman, Shai Agassi&#8217;s EV infrastructure company is spreading their marketing wings with this PR palace opening. I wish we were in Israel to check it out.

Meanwhile in America, the Nissan Leaf 5-passenger EV coming out in 2010 is getting a boost from a five state EV charging facility initiative. Check out the EV Project.

Question: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100307/better-place-opens-ev-center-in-israel/</link>
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		<title>Climate debate missing the point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Barry Brook has just published a useful, very concise, op-ed on Australia&#8217;s ABC &#8220;The drum&#8221;. Wisely, the essay doesn&#8217;t boil it down to the absolute minimum (FOE are dishonest ghouls), but does communicate standards for evaluating real-world-implementable energy policy options.


  (&#8230;) First up, it can’t bankrupt us. Actually, I’d go further than that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100307/climate-debate-missing-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Chris Mowry of mPower interviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t miss this interview with Chris Mowry, President and CEO, Babcock &#38; Wilcox (B&#38;W) Modular Nuclear Energy. Many thanks to Rod Adams for sourcing the article, which offers more detail on the mPower program:


  
    
  (&#8230;) Here is a sample quote:

  
    We are trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100307/details-about-mpower-from-powergenworldwide-com-and-chris-mowry/</link>
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