Browsing all posts in March, 2011.

Nada, Nada, Nada: Thoughts on Hemingway & Existential Flames In The Head

I’ve just reduced my latest manuscript from 144,000 words to 83,000. And lost nothing at all but fat (the manuscript, not me ….wish editing/writing could be more aerobic). The editing, and a Facebook conversation with friend Mark York reminded me of Ernest Hemingway, one of the all-time masters of tight, powerful writing. He wrote terse […]

Forget Nukes: Coal-Fired Power Plants Can Emit 4X The Radioactivity of Three-Mile Island

Forget about being hysterical about Fukushima. The average coal-fired power plant can continually emit four times the radiation as Three Mile Island. How’s that possible? Because low-sulfur coal use in coal-fired plants contains thorium: a radioactive element that is released when the coal is burned. What’s more, the particles containing the thorium are among those […]