Short of some convulsion that drastically shrinks the economy, demand for electricity will go on rising.” Key Quotes Saving an extra 400 million tons of coal here and there-roughly the amount of carbon that the United States would have to stop burning to comply with the Kyoto Protocol today-would make quite a difference, we’re told. If we keep burning fossil fuels at current rates, their climate models tell them, we’ll face a meltdown on a much larger scale than Chernobyl’s, beginning with the polar ice caps. “Many Greens think that they have a good grip on the likely trajectory of the planet’s climate over the next 100 years. nuclear power production, Mills and co-writer Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute wrote: Stance on Climate ChangeĪdvocating for more U.S. The Greening Earth Society, a project of the Western Fuels Alliance that promoted CO2 as beneficial to the environment, listed Mills as a scientific advisor between 19. Mills co-founded the venture capital firm Digital Power Capital, ICx Technologies, the Electric Council for the Economy, the Critical Power Coalition, the Center for Science Technology & Media, and the ElectroTechnology Marketing Group. He has appeared on television on multiple networks. Mills is a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine and his writings have been featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He worked on defense-related projects with NORTEL and served as a staff consultant to the White House Science Office during the tenure of President Ronald Reagan.

Mills began his career in uranium mining and refining with Eldorado Nuclear (now Cameco) before moving to RCA as an engineer and physicist. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Notre Dame Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. He is a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a Strategic Partner at Cottonwood Venture Partners, an investment firm focused on technological advancements in oil and gas production. Mark Mills has been President of Digital Power Group since 2001 and operates the website.

BSc Honors, Physics, Queen’s University.

Anxious Disciple by Mark Mills