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Benjamin Sovacool takes issue with Lorenzini’s criticism of his work

ByGuest Author

…Quite obviously more research is required. The problem with scholarship at Sovacool‘s level is that Sovacool tends to use multiple black boxes; that is complex scientific papers that base their arguments on passages derived wholly or in part from other scientific papers. In addition, scientific papers may have been questioned by critics, but the quotation may contain no reference to the criticism unless one is familiar with the whole network of re…

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Lorenzini rebuts Sovacool’s defense of nuclear bird kill paper as weak

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…ww.beyondnuclear.org/storage/seabrook-renewables/seab_lra_10202010_exhibit_sovacool_nuclear_ghg_2008.pdf) and the Fritsche and Lim (2006) article Sovacool cites for his figures seems to be this English-language version (http://www.oeko.de/oekodoc/315/2006-017-en.pdf) ] In fairness, the F-L paper’s wording is ambiguous, so it’s easy to misunderstand. F-L wrote: “[T]he GEMIS model calculates some 31 grams of CO2 per kWh of electricity generated in n…

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Nukes kill more birds than wind?

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…data.” Their corrected number for bird kills at the six sites examined by Sovacool results in 0.653 fatalities per GWh, significantly higher than Sovacool’s 0.269. Using a broader sample of wind sites, they arrive at 1.46/GWh, over five times Sovacool’s estimate. When bats are added, it increases to 2.94/GWh. The end result is not too surprising – wind power kills lots of birds and bats, by factors of ten more than nuclear power. It’s a major con…

Overcoming Mythology – Real Analysis Regarding Carbon Intensity of Uranium Fuel Cycle

ByRod Adams

…and over and over again. If we’re asking who has analyzed the issue more, Sovacool has. Dones did not include either operation or decommissioning, and in Sovacool‘s study, every part of the cycle matters. The “average” of 66 g/kWh is taken by only averaging the values given for each part of the cycle. In other words, although Dones gives a number of 5-10 g/kWh, Sovacool‘s interpretation of Dones’s number is higher than this. Aside from the fact t…

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Open letter to antinuclear groups claiming to be “environmental”

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…a commenter here found the Vatenfall study unconvincing. He also found the Sovacool one probably correct, Sovacool actually used the Storm numbers 4 times in the 19 studies he really included, and made significant error with 2 other studies. Criticizing the Vatenfall study for not including auxiliary services requires to have checked if the study it’s compared to have included them, they are not by nature massively more expensive than for wind per…

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Appealing to the hearts and minds of the people at APIEL

ByRod Adams

…eated by harvesting southeastern US forests. One presenter quoted Benjamin Sovacool’s numbers for nuclear energy’s life cycle CO2 emissions, saying that his study reported that nuclear produced six times as much CO2 per unit of output energy as wind. I asked him why he accepted the IPCC as a credible source of information when it came to their warnings about climate change but not their recommendations for solutions and not their representative nu…

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Nuclear professional explains why he strongly reacts to antinuclear statements

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…ding false negative information about nuclear energy. By Bill Rogers @ Dr. Sovacool, First let me say that I appreciate the forthrightness in your responses as I came at you fairly hard and you are coming into the lion’s den. Also Charles Barton raises several points in his response that are valid for me to consider. However, as I hope to explain, I have come to my opinions based on years of experience in the energy generation trenches. I would li…

I owe Amory Lovins an apology

ByRod Adams

…Higher prices do not always mean higher energy bills. Rod Adams @Benjamin Sovacool That’s good to know. However, I’m still a little confused. If wind-generated electricity has essentially no marginal cost and does not produce any emissions, why would you want people to waste time and money — both items in short supply — figuring out ways to use less of it? Why not encourage people to use all they want, after all, there’s always more wind, isn’t…

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Crowd sourced analysis of a Lovins sales pitch

ByRod Adams

…process heat. Rod Adams @Charles Barton You might have missed the posts on Sovacool that have been published here. https://atomicinsights.com/?s=sovacool Continuing to pursue additional ammunition against Lovins has not stopped us from discussing others like Mark Cooper, Benjamin Sovacool, Arnie Gundersen, Joe Romm, Paul Gunter, Ralph Nader, Michael Mariotte or others. Rod Adams @Keith Pickering Lovins also obfuscates by claiming that electricity…

Update: One-Woman Crusade to Encourage Exelon to Restore the Zion Nuclear Power Plant and Operate it In Her Backyard

ByRod Adams

…e” can very easily produce numbers that do not match reality? My beef with Sovacool and Storm-Smith is that they use a confusing methodology to estimate the energy consumption for an activity that is ongoing today, instead of just measuring it. The Rossing mine is producing about 3,000 tons of uranium every year from very low ore concentrations. If their numbers were close to accurate, some very strange things would have to be happening – like a s…

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Cooper’s criticism may awaken nuclear competitive spirit

ByRod Adams

…hat for lack of evidence that nuclear kills birds, as he admitted himself, Sovacool automatically jumps to causality that nuclear kills birds. He said that his article was peer reviewed but fails to admit that he probably was crucified in the process of that review but persisted in publishing his work as an article and not a scientific research. As for Cooper, well I think Rod has made a point as to his well balanced efforts of in his article that…

Returning soon

ByRod Adams

…a long time ago … but there’s still one more problem (at least) in that Sovacool “analysis” of nuclear bird kills … (but I couldn’t add a comment to the original … you’ve probably closed them?). https://atomicinsights.com/nukes-kill-more-birds-than-wind/ Sovacool gives the mortality of Limerick at 0.261 deaths per GWh assuming 274 birds a year … 274/(1200e6*24*365*0.9/1e-9) = 0.0289 … he’s out by a factor of 10. and as Paul’s article me…

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