To their shame, many pro-nuclear groups spend more of their resources tearing apart the wind and solar industries than promoting their own. Here’s a great example, a graph that shows that solar and wind are too expensive. But there are …
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When we talk about the potential for safe, inexpensive, and (of course) low-carbon nuclear energy, we’re normally talking about fission. Perhaps we’re discussing thorium and the promise represented by LFTRs (liquid fluoride thorium reactors). In fact, there is a whole …
Timothy Maloney writes: Fear of nuclear radiation is a superstition – a belief maintained in the absence of valid evidence out of deference to perceived authority. Extraction of hydrocarbons cannot be stopped by political or social action. It can be …
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I’ll let James Hansen explain it. This is a critically important topic, and most liberals, as they have ingested massive amounts of misinformation, get it completely wrong. Again, Dr. Hansen is far more qualified to address this than I will …
Some of my colleagues in my “pro-nuke” discussion group are, sadly, fond of bashing renewables; the top players seem to take joy in spreading data that supports their hypothesis that solar and wind are a waste of time and resources. …
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Frequent commenter Frank Eggers calls our attention to an article on the development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) in China, and points to this excerpt: “Professor Li, director of the project’s molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said …
It’s hard to predict what will happen to the nuclear industry. Taking a broad view, nuclear energy is both absolutely vital to low-emissions world and completely taboo even to discuss.
A colleague asks for my viewpoint on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, aka cold fusion). I wrote: It’s funny you ask, as my belief has changed over the last few years. If you will read the short chapter on the subject …
Readers often talk about thorium and its potential to become the feedstock for the next generation of nuclear fission reactors. I have high hopes for thorium; there is a whole chapter in my most recent book (Bullish on Renewable Energy) …
Question: How many bequerels per cubic meter of seawater is safe? Hold on. Wait a second. What’s a bequerel? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: As my colleague Mike Conley writes: Fear and paranoia are the two …
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