The Dead Hand Journal

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"Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President's management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right."
Full transcript and links to audio are after the Jump.

Some people dream – some people do...and some do both!

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Unless you're a government, or as rich as one, polonium may not be your best choice of weapon.

Spend a year at the South Pole with Dr. Robert G. Williscroft. View nine individual shows that take you from Los Angeles to New Zealand to Antarctica to the Pole, and back, including a major fire that nearly wiped out the station.

Sen. James M. Inhofe to Al Gore and Hollywood activists: If you're going to talk the talk, then walk the walk!

Tokyo Rose is alive and well among us, and she still is doing her best to demoralize our troops.

How is it that two people can look at an event, and yet when they describe it, it is as if one of them was not even present at the same event seen by the other?

Something is stirring in the fusion energy scene. "Cold fusion" is back as something called "nuclear electrolysis" – well funded by taxpayer money this time.

Two energy options are frequently advocated by nuclear power opponents: locally produced solar energy and ethanol.

Are we the children of star-children?

Wolfgang's Vault gives away what is priceless: live performances of artists that legendary rock concert promoter Bill Graham recorded directly off of the mixing board.

This is the fourteenth in a series of articles written by Lawrence Solomon and published in the National Post in Canada. These articles are well researched, well written, and important to read for anyone who wants to understand the real nature of the Global Warming debate. Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Urban Renaissance Institute, a division of Energy Probe Research Foundation.

Containing the energy released in a fission reaction is relatively trivial and easily accomplished. We do this literally everywhere on Earth in nuclear reactors. The amount of energy released in a thermonuclear reaction, however, is enormously greater and very much more difficult to contain.

In our earlier discussion about how fissile Uranium-235 drives a reactor, we also learned that Uranium-238 participates in the process by transforming into Plutonium-239 which is fissile like Uranium-235. In fact, this isotope of plutonium produces significantly more energy than Uranium-235. And the process continues to produce Plutonium-240 and 241. This raises an interesting question. Can we take these fuel rods that contain all this plutonium, separate out the plutonium and whatever uranium was not used, and make more fuel rods? You bet. In fact, we actually end up with more fuel after the process than what we started with.