Looks like the Obama Administration wasn’t kidding about an “all-of-the-above strategy,” i.e., the deployment of every available source of energy; the U.S. DoE announced the implementation of small modular reactors (SMRs). For me to see value here, in addition to being …
Category: Nuclear
Predictions on Nuclear Energy
On my post on the costs of nuclear energy, frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: Nuclear may go away for the next 50 years or so, not because of renewables beating them on price but because gas from fracking has become …
Tagged with: clean energy, fissionable atoms, fusion energy, Larry Lemmert, nuclear energy, Renewable Energy, renewables, solar energy, thorium, Yogi Berra
The Key Driver of Energy: Cost
Larry Lemmert, astute as always, wrote a terrific comment here, to the effect that our assessments of the dangers of nuclear energy are unfounded, and the math we attempt to apply here unfair. I think it’s true that there is …
Nuclear Versus Solar Energy
Rick Maltese is a bright, thoughtful guy, and makes some very solid statements on behalf of nuclear energy. He writes: Statistically safety for nuclear power in the US does better than renewables, mind you it is only marginally. You may …
A Conversation on Nuclear Energy
I wrote to a friend yesterday that I really don’t know whom or what to trust when it comes to evaluating the safety of nuclear energy. Obviously, there is a ton of content that suggests a cover-up on Fukushima, i.e., …
What’s the Take-Away from Fukushima?
We often read articles that acknowledge that, while Fukushima was indeed a disaster, that it caused an unwarranted spike in fear of danger of nuclear power, and that this alarmist message was spread by those with an anti-nuclear agenda. On …
General Electric Moving Away from Nuclear Energy
I write often on the folly of nuclear energy. If it were cheap, I guess we could have a conversation about how we could deal with the safety issues. But it isn’t; it’s fantastically expensive. Apparently General Electric CEO Jeffrey …
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Cold Fusion Is Hotly Controversial
Regarding my piece earlier on cold fusion, my old school friend Duke Brooks writes, “I thought the idea of cold fusion died in the 1990s with Pons and Fleischmann.” Cold fusion, while fantastically controversial, is definitely not dead. To summarize …
Tagged with: Cal Tech, cold fusion, Duke Brooks, Fleischmann and Pons, Glenn Doty, Lawrence Livermore Labs, MIT, US Navy
Cold Fusion – Hot Subject
A website covering cold fusion posted my video on the subject http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/06/author-craig-shields-on-cold-fusion/, which has garnered 54 comments over a two-day period. Not bad! This really is a hot subject, pardon the pun. Here’s one: Zedshort on June 15, 2012 at 11:33 …
Cold Fusion: A Subject for Seances, not Sciences?
Glenn Doty writes: Craig, I don’t think that cold fusion is a worthy discussion point – as its advocates do not adhere to the common discipline of science. Whether or not a study can technically be classified within the empirically …
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Tagged with: Arthur Schopenhauer, cold fusion, Glenn Doty, James Garfield, mainstream science, science fiction
