Even with decades worth of passionate discussions about CO2 emissions, it is difficult for some people to comprehend the scale of the problem. This video graphic takes a big step in the right direction.
The creator has helped us to see what it would mean if we packed fossil fuel waste from a single large city into one ton packages and kept them all in one place.
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National Clean Energy Week was conceived in June by the Coalition of Responsible Energy Solutions. During July and August the organizers attracted partners, sponsors and speakers. They developed a week-long agenda and located venues for the expo, symposium and panels. Festivities began with a welcome reception for invited guests at Google’s Washington, D.C. office on…
In the above video clip, Robert Stone explains that the cost of nuclear power plants can come down if we start building and applying the techniques of manufacturing and mass production that have helped reduce the cost of wind turbines, solar panels and iPhones. He points out that we have been operating nuclear power plants…
On August 20, 2014, Remy DeVoe, a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee, published an earthshaking piece on ANS Nuclear Cafe titled Unintended Anti-Nuclear Consequences Lurking in the EPA Clean Power Plan. Unfortunately, there has been a bit of a delayed reaction; so far, only the most carefully tuned instruments have…
I’m a progressive liberal who frequently listens to Democracy Now! That makes me a bit of an oddity because I am also fiercely pro-nuclear energy. It has numerous capabilities that should appeal to progressive thinkers; it is abundant, affordable, compact, reliable, and emission-free. Unfortunately, the catechism taught to hereditary or geographical liberals includes such talking…
At the suggestion of a long time Atomic Insights contributor and Atomic Show listener, I invited Michael Mariotte for a guest appearance on the Atomic Show. In the small world made up of active nuclear advocates and people adamantly opposed to nuclear energy, Mariotte and his organization are famous — or infamous, depending on one’s…
Nuclear energy has been making more frequent appearances at Earth Day events around the country. Groups like Generation Atomic, Mothers for Nuclear, Climate Coalition and Young Generation in Nuclear have been actively attending Earth Day events for a number of years. On Saturday, April 23, Nucleation Capital participated in the Earth Day celebration hosted by…
How much work is it to move the fuel from those huge ungainly casks to a central location in US?…
@Rob Brixey The project you mention were not the kind of commercial prototypes I am suggesting. As far as I…
Vallecitos BWR was a prototype in its day. But that was built during the AEC (collaboration) vs NRC (regulation) paradigm.…
That makes sense. I suppose that as long as the storage system allows for relatively easy access to the casks,…
@jon grams I hear what you’re saying. But I’ve also heard from people who work at certain long-view companies that…
Nice display, Carbon Visuals. Now how about slapping a caption, “Support electric vehicles and heat. Support Indian Point” at the tail?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I’d like to see that virtual Mt. Everest of carbon compared to the relatively small “big box” sized warehouse that could neatly contain our nation’s entire inventory of used nuclear fuel.
If we can imagine one of the largest cities creating a mountain of carbon gas in one year, then globally we are creating virtual mountain ranges of carbon every year.
Off-topic but worthy of discussion;
One long overlooked channel of FUD is vintage science or history programming. Just this morning I woke to see on the History Channel a series on aerial tankers. It must’ve been circa early 1990’s and had the clip about the tanker-bomber collision in Spain which involved nuclear bombs. As soon as that was mentioned ominous background music snapped on and the narrator said “…a collision was bad enough, but it could’ve been much much worst” then a flick to an H-bomb exploding. One doesn’t need to be AF crew to know these bombs fly unarmed and even in a crash can’t detonate, yet the program went ahead and implied that. Much the same with done with a report on TMI, showing bunny-suited officials combing through Middleton and the countryside with Geiger counters and telling crying kids to stay sealed behind their windows. Beyond the height of inaccuracy and irresponsibility back then, such tid-bits continue to re-run un-updated and uncorrected through the years and today, sowing further nuclear misconceptions and feeding mistrust and jitters of anything nuclear. This I know because public schools in NYC often recommend these cable science/history shows as references and study resources. So anti-nukers automatically have an ally and “credible media source” to cite to the clueless in their rants. How much can it cost to tack a update correction caption to these old features? They do on the fate of terrorists and celebrities long after their shows were filmed.
James Greenidge
Queens NY