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The Heartless Heartland Institute and Nazi Tourettes
The other week the Right-wing Heartland Institute began putting up posters with a picture of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (scary that my spellchecker knows the word “Unabomber”) and the text “I still believe in Global Warming, do you?” They promise to … Continue reading
…..and solar is forever damned?
At the other extreme to my prior post, every time you bring up the issue of solar energy and how the price of PV is rapidly falling, with it rapidly catching up with wind energy (already cheaper then fossil fuels … Continue reading
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For nuclear energy supporters hope springs eternal – The Fast Reactor delusion
If there’s one thing the nuclear energy supporters aren’t short of its eternal optimism. Like a compulsive gambler, after a string of repeated failures, they’ll still be convinced a “big win” is always right around the corner. Take the situation … Continue reading
Recent additions
I’ve added a few new articles to this site recently. Many of these are summarized in the article: “Peak oil, climate change and the energy transition“ This series of articles starts however, with a Peak Oil Primer, in which I discuss … Continue reading
Posted in clean energy, climate change, economics, efficiency, energy, future, nuclear, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, sustainability, sustainable, thorium
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Nuclear Requiem – Is the penny finally dropping on costs?
This week we say a bit of a hammer blow struck to efforts to build (or more specifically replace outdated) nuclear reactors in the UK. Two companies, RWE (otherwise known as Npower in the UK) and E.On announced that they … Continue reading
Posted in clean energy, climate change, economics, energy, France, nuclear, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, sustainability, sustainable, thorium
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Trumped up Nonsense
Megalomaniac wig wearing Blowhard Donald Trump recently took a pop at Scotland’s renewable energy policy. Notably its plans for more off shore wind farms (one of them near his infamous golf course). He’s promising to put money into a vigour’s … Continue reading
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The precautionary principle
The precautionary principle is something that often lies at the heart of the environmental debate. It basically works on the principle that if a particular activity or policy carries a suspected risk of some sorts, even if that risk is … Continue reading
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Understanding the Limits to Growth
The club of Rome’s 1973 the limits to Growth, warned of serious possible dangers of constraints to continued growth (economic, population, prosperity, industrial output, etc.) brought on by a depletion of resources and severe damage being ultimately inflicted on the … Continue reading
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Part 11 – Summary and Conclusions
Following through the analysis I’ve undertaken you can see that the alternative designs proposed to the LWR do offer some advantages, notably in the area of safety, but many of these designs come with other problems attached. It is also … Continue reading
Posted in clean energy, climate change, economics, energy, LFTR, nuclear, peak oil, politics, renewables, sustainability, thorium, Uncategorized
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Is Shale Gas worse than coal?
I came across this video (55 min’s long!) the other night in which the Cornell university scientists Bob Howarth, Rene Santoro, and Tony Ingraffea present the evidence behind their much quoted paper on the carbon footprint of Shale Gas. This … Continue reading
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