Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.