Quake in Japan Causes Costly Shift to Fossil Fuels – NYTimes.com

Back to the Future! Fumes be damned, we need those kilowatts! YOKOSUKA, Japan — The half-century-old, oil-fueled power generators here had been idle for more than a year when, a day after the nuclear accident in March, orders came from Tokyo Electric Power headquarters to fire them up. “They asked me how long it would [...]