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Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Offers Lousy Excuses About Nuclear Energy Position

May 16, 2016 By Rod Adams 27 Comments

During the ECO:nomics Conference held in Santa Barbara, CA April 6-8 2016, the Wall Street Journal’s Russell Gold Michael Brune peppered Sierra Club’s Executive Director with direct questions about his organization’s current and potential position vis a vis nuclear energy and climate change. Brune’s dismissive responses insulted the thousands of hard-working people who have been […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy

The Worth-It Threshold – When gas or gas + renewables is as bad for climate as a coal plant

April 9, 2016 By Guest Author 104 Comments

The following article dovetails nicely as support for several articles that are in the queue. Those articles will describe a global case of ill-advised groupthink about a future energy supply system consisting of unreliable wind and solar power generation. My interpretation is that the “100% renewables” goal is a seductive mirage that has been carefully […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Natural Gas, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Mr. Atomic Goes to New York for The Future of Energy – Part 1

April 8, 2016 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

On April 4 and 5, I had the pleasure of attending the 9th annual The Future of Energy Summit organized by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) and held at the Grand Hyatt next door to New York’s Grand Central Station. The organizing theme of this year’s event, The Age of Plenty, the Age of Competition […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Advanced Atomic Technologies, Climate change, Fossil fuel competition, Unreliables, Wind energy

California’s “fix” for global warming is one step forward, two steps back

March 20, 2016 By Rod Adams 88 Comments

The March/April 2016 issue of Mother Jones includes a thoughtful piece by Gabriel Kahn titled Dreamers of the Golden Dream: Does California have a blueprint to fix global warming?. Regular Atomic Insights readers will not be surprised to find that I’ve already decided that California’s chosen path for reducing CO2 emissions and dependence on fossil […]

Filed Under: Unreliables, 100% WWS, Atomic politics, Climate change

Clean energy, sustainable energy – both terms include nuclear energy

January 18, 2016 By Rod Adams 39 Comments

For the Democratic Party debate held last night, the scientists at MinuteEarth were asked to provide a video giving some context for their question to the candidates about climate change. Here is their video, their question and responses from Senator Bernie Sanders and Governor Mark O’Malley. Secretary Clinton wasn’t given a chance to answer; it […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Climate change

295th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs

January 11, 2016 By Rod Adams Leave a Comment

Atomic Insights is proud to be hosting the 295th weekly addition of the Carnival of Nuclear Blogs. Here are some of the highlight posts produced during the first full week of 2016. From Yes Vermont Yankee: Vermont Yankee was replaced by natural gas: Doing the numbers By: Meredith Angwin and The replacement for Vermont Yankee […]

Filed Under: Carnival, Climate change

Is slowly rising sea level really a concern for nuclear power plants?

January 5, 2016 By Rod Adams 30 Comments

Christina Nunez wrote a piece for National Geographic titled As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready?. It is a journalistically balanced piece that poses a worrying question about nuclear plant vulnerability. It begins by describing reasons to support nuclear energy along with reasons why some oppose and fear it. It includes critical commentary […]

Filed Under: Aging nuclear, Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Don’t Nuke the Climate – A Response to NIRS from Rauli Partanen and Janne M. Korhonen

December 29, 2015 By Guest Author 52 Comments

By Rauli Partanen and Janne M. Korhonen Earlier this year, we wrote a piece called “A most unwise campaign.” Writing as independent researchers, members of the Finnish Ecomodernist Society, and in association with non-profit organization Energy4Humanity, we criticized some of the claims prominently made in support of one of the staples of established anti-nuclear activism: […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Guest Columns, Unreliables

Caldeira, Emanuel, Wigley and Hansen Statement at COP21, December 4, 2015

December 28, 2015 By Rod Adams 1 Comment

On December 4, 2015, during COP21, Energy for Humanity hosted a press conference at which four leading climate scientists provided statements explaining why they believe that nuclear energy must be included in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the the power sources currently used to enable our modern, increasingly prosperous society. The effort is […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Climate change

Natural gas leak polluting Porter Ranch in LA county since October 23, 2015

December 15, 2015 By Rod Adams 4 Comments

Earlier today, I found a link in one of my news feeds to a December 14, 2015 MarketPlace story titled A Natural Gas Leak With Seemingly No End. It describes an event near a community called Porter Ranch in Los Angeles county, California that has been in progress since October 23, 2015. Here is the […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Book, Climate change, Health Effects, Natural Gas

Mark Jacobson describes attributes of his incredibly optimistic wind, water, solar energy plans

December 15, 2015 By Rod Adams 48 Comments

During COP16, Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson described attributes of his team’s most recently produced paper. The abstract leads with the following claim about the paper’s content. This study addresses the greatest concern facing the large-scale integration of wind, water, and solar (WWS) into a power grid: the high cost of avoiding load loss caused by […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Solar energy, Wind energy

Climate scientists skeptical about Mark Z. Jacobson’s 100% renewable energy “plans”

December 14, 2015 By Rod Adams 22 Comments

During COP21, Energy for Humanity‘s Kirsty Gogan moderated a press conference featuring Drs. James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel, and Ken Caldeira. The complete event is available on YouTube at [LIVE] Conférence presse de James Hansen à La Galerie by World Efficiency. These experts are the four climate scientists who have spent a part of […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Solar energy, Wind energy

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