Amory Lovins (Image via Wikipedia) As Amory Lovins has been suggesting, Both Areva and EDF have found themselves reprimanded in recent months by nuclear safety authorities during the construction process of the EPR. Areva also remains in a fierce battle with its utility client in Finland, where the reactor is at least three years late [...]
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I think this is the best graphic on energy I have ever seen. It compares the CO2 displaced by using a particular technology based on per dollar spent on delivering the electricity. Basically, the higher the bar the better it is and end use efficiency has the most gains of all. Source: E09-01, Nuclear Power: [...]
I have been writing on nuclear energy on this blog and have quoted Stewart Brand. I ran past this idea with Atanu Dey on why Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute is against nuclear energy. Atanu’s response was that as long as the full life cycle costs are taken into consideration and nuclear energy [...]
From LightBucket: ExternE’s definition of external costs: An external cost, also known as an externality, arises when the social or economic activities of one group of persons have an impact on another group and when that impact is not fully accounted, or compensated for, by the first group. External Costs, ExternE, 2003 [1] The ExternE [...]
Stewart Brand in the his new book: To my mind, the Green path forward begins with environmentalists realizing that nuclear power will grow no matter what we do. Our customary opposition would make it grow badly – slowly, expensively, unsystemically, and with dangerously poor overall coordination. But if we encourage it in the right way, [...]
Robert Gottliebsen in Business Spectator: While much of the rest of the world embraces nuclear technology as part of a mix of measures to reduce carbon emissions, Australia stands virtually alone among the majors in turning its back on the nuclear options while at the same time supplying most of the other nations with uranium. [...]
Meanwhile, our major trading partner, China, looks like showing Australians (and Copenhagen) what is needed to reduce carbon emissions. The New York Times reports that although China took over from the US as the main carbon emitter in 2007, China has approached carbon reduction using a three pronged attack and it’s starting to show results. [...]
This is Australia’s nuclear energy. He cites the potential of harvesting geothermal energy from Australia’s hot rocks, near the earth’s surface. Australia’s geothermal industry is growing with about 400 geothermal tenements nationwide and $1.5 billion in work programs underway, according to the report. In particular, Cooper Basin, a sedimentary geological area located mainly in the [...]
Surfing through Wikipedia for a mind mapping software called ‘Compendium‘, I came across this entry on Wicked problems. Well, it explains a lot of the big issues in the world. “Wicked problem” is a phrase used in social planning to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and [...]
Marc Gunther » It’s time to rethink nukes Good idea. Many years ago, I covered protests again the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire for a left-wing publication. My sympathies were with the protestors. Now I’m firmly undecided, and determined to learn more. Given the threat of climate change and the safety record of [...]
