Thoughts while driving
June 14, 2010
I do a great deal of my productive thinking while in the car. My commute is not long, but I have also found it a good place to develop ideas and plans. Having a companion in the car is also helpful. It provides someone to use as a sounding board.
Anyway to reason for this train of thought stems from an auto-related conversation this morning. Under consideration was my question about why the Navy has such an apparently good safety record on nuclear subs, while the private sector often has really had lots of problems from “unusual events” (Davis-Besse, 1985) to “local emergencies” (Three Mile Island, 1979), to “oh, @#$*” (Chernobyl, 1986).
I think nuclear power, along with other technologies, should be a good idea. It should be safe(r), and should provide a good, long-lasting source of energy. We don’t seem to have spent the time to make it as viable as it could be. I suspect oil interests may be part of the reason for that.
However, with the BP problem in the Gulf, it seems we don’t have successful technology for using our gas and oil reserves either – and we have been doing that for over 150 years.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 
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