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1 week ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
The Energy Central Power Industry Network® is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it. It's also easy to share a link to an article you've liked or an industry resource that you think would be helpful.
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1 week ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: California Department of Public Health May 6, 2025 2:38 pm GMT3 views Access Publication Having lived in the Livermore Valley for most of my adult life (since 1977), I heard about Valley fever early on.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy May 1, 2025 8:37 am GMT9 views Access Publication First of all, your author found a very interesting book about Nuclear Energy. I’ve included a link to the Amazon site for this book in Reference 1 in this paper. If any readers are former employees in this industry like your author, or are otherwise Nuclear Geeks, I believe that you would enjoy this book.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
Apr 29, 2025 2:40 pm GMT2 views Access Publication Sometimes I go crazy, but in a good way. I find many rich veins of information for future articles. As much as I disagree with the current executive of the US Federal Government, I believe Don is mainly responsible for most of the chaos that is leading to these interesting subjects. Well, I just found two new veins, and they are really rich.
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2 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Mann, Bradley & Hughes Apr 26, 2025 1:52 pm GMT2 views Access Publication When I decided to use the above title, I was pretty sure a majority of the U.S. public would select the first option (human-caused). But after selecting it, did a search for a recent poll from a respected pollster that asked this question.
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3 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Scientific American Apr 22, 2025 2:13 pm GMT3 views Access Publication If I were to ask you: “What is the most important type of measurement technology? How would you answer this (without looking at the title of this paper.) Ah ha, you peeked. Yes, it is time. I’m sure some would argue that it’s distance, or temperature, any other of many measurable quantities, based on their experience. Or perhaps you agree time is right up there in the importance scale.
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4 weeks ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
Apr 17, 2025 2:11 pm GMT3 views Access Publication Human-caused climate change means climate everywhere will change. Although some changes will be positive (for instance, longer growing seasons for agriculture), many more will be negative. The main problematic issue is that most regions have not adapted to new and future conditions. I saw a few of these examples in recent years and just encountered another one.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Firefly Aerospace Apr 15, 2025 10:19 am GMT2 views Access Publication The space-launch and landing systems sectors need to develop into an industry, along with ancillary firms that will support this new industry. This will promote competition that will drive down prices and increase volume. The good news is, today, on the second of March (as I’m starting to write this), one of those firms, with an unlikely name, landed an amazing act-1 of this evolution.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
Apr 10, 2025 2:39 pm GMT2 views Access Publication Readers will note that the title of this paper starts with “Part 9”, which means I have written at least eight of these before. Actually, more like 25 with this post. Instructions to access the other 24 papers are in the Introduction for this paper. In section 2 of this paper, I provide a few details on nuclear power plants built in the US from 1980 through 2024.
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1 month ago | 
energycentral.com | John Benson
image credit: Thomson Reuters Apr 8, 2025 2:18 pm GMT5 views Access Publication If you look up the last word in the title of this post in merriam-webster.com. it says: “Free-for-all, brawl.” Thus, you might assume that all donnybrooks are crude, but there are also multiple definitions for “crude.” The one I’m using in the title is a shortened version of “crude oil,” and the U.S. state governments are in a major donnybrook over this necessary (for now) energy-source.
