True to form, Glenn Doty writes a thorough and quite helpful comment on my piece about measuring the increase in the use of renewable energy. He closes with two ideas on which I would like to comment in return: 1) …
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How Clean Is Nuclear Power?
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Clean Energy May Be Right Around the Corner
A number of folks commenting on my piece The New Living Large Is Living Small noted that perhaps we need a precipitating event to pull the world together, and teach us once again how to live with one another. But …
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When the Architect of Fukushima Reactor 3 Is Scared, So Am I
About once a week, someone asks me for my take on the latest about Fukushima, how concerned we should be, or what the upshot will be in terms of world energy policy (as if there is such a thing). I …
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The Nuclear Renaissance is Pushing Ahead? Really?
Because there are plenty of people writing on the Fukushima disaster, I tend to comment on it quite sparingly. But I just received an email from Areva (the French nuclear giant) that begins: “With the nuclear renaissance pushing ahead, I’m …
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Fukushima: Some Enlightened Ideas, Some Moronic
Understandably, accompanying the situation in Fukushima is a flurry of discussion of renewable energy. And, where some of that conversation shows a great deal of sophistication and enlightenment, some of it does not. I was amused by Fred Upton’s (R- …
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at LEVEL 4 as of March 16th
Fukushima Nuclear power plant compound has been affected devastatingly by the Japanese earthquake. Latest updates report most problems with Reactors 2 and 3. Radiation at Fukushima Nuclear power plant I, Reactor 3 is the highest. If you are concerned you …
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