Happy Thursday,
Lovelies!
As many of you
know, I’m Alaskan, and I kinda wear it on my sleeve. In my young and crazy days, I was president
of an Alaskan nonprofit called the Alaskan State Society (aka AKSS, not…) Now, I’m happily just a board member.
The new
president is fantastic. He spearheaded
an effort to host brunches where influential speakers address we rag-tag
Alaskans about some issue of the day.
One such brunch was with McKie Campbell, **serious** Alaskan
bigwig. McKie spoke on the future of
energy development in Alaska. I grabbed
tickets for Mi Amor and me, and off to the Capitol Hill brunch we went.
I have a
master’s in rural development, and I loved listening to McKie explain the role
of development in the ability to provide clean, efficient energy. It makes sense! Communities with the least infrastructure
rely on firewood—a very expensive (time equals money) and polluting fuel. Then, communities may have an airstrip and get
oil stoves-- slightly less polluting.
Then a small plant may be built to deliver electric energy, and so on,
and so on.
McKie also
brought up nuclear power, and the possibility of small generation units being
deployed to rural Alaska. I could feel
my breath suck in. While this may be
“future” of power generation, I know rural Alaska. LOTS of “stuff” is wasting away in rural
Alaska because know one knows how to fix it, parts are too expensive, there
isn’t community buy in, or someone borrowed the spark plugs for another
purpose.
A deployable
nuclear generation unit is scary “stuff” to be wasting away in the middle of
someone’s everywhere. Nuclear energy is
something I need to investigate more thoroughly.
Anyway, here
are some shots from the event! Thoughts?
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