…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…
…resented by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and writed by Benjamin K. Sovacool and Anthony D’Agostino. They point out crippling costs, waste disposal, environmental impacts, safety, fuel availability, and a better path – Energy efficiency and demand side management. I was wondering – especially – how they could complain about uranium mining in a trade paper for chemical engineers when you can run lightly acid or base water into the ground and…
…eous diffusion energy hogs, anti-nuclear “researchers” (Storm van Leeuwen, Sovacool, etc.) can inflate the carbon content of nuclear fuel, inflate the environmental impact of nuclear power, and also make claims that technologies to replace gaseous diffusion are “vaporware”. Time to move nuclear fuel production into the 21st century. Joel Riddle OK, so adequate electricity demand is key. If electricity growth in America had consistently been around…
…nts from the published figures for existing mines. It also rather explains Sovacool‘s laundering of van Leeuwen in his paper. A meta-study of ‘hundreds’ of papers is easier to sell than one mustachioed crank. Plolov Um…to clarify for no particular reason: moustaches and cranks are not strongly correlated and the inverse should not be inferred from my previous post….Just wanted to clear that up! Robert Hargraves I note that the people who are t…
…ful about making any statements that could be deemed political. Benjamin K Sovacool @Gareth and Daniel, as long as nuclear power relies on depletable fuels like uranium or even rare earth minerals, it (and even batteries, EVs, renewables, and other clean technology) will all be prone to at least one variant of the resource curse. Smilin Joe Fission It is almost an outright lie to say that nuclear power will ever have a fuel supply problem. Between…
…l in front of its porch. Joris van Dorp Perhaps Mr. Cooper – just like Mr. Sovacool has stated about himself – is simply fundamentally convinced that there really are cleaner and safer alternatives to nuclear power? If one has such a conviction, then all sorts of rubbish is free to come out of one’s mouth, without causing any ethical questions. Because after all: hammering on nuclear power relentlessly – with half-truths if necessary – will hasten…
…icipate. Long time readers will remember some lengthy engagements with Ben Sovacool, Peter Bradford, Amory Lovins and Jerry Taylor, to name a few off of the top of my head. In other cases, where I do not have good contact information or I simply forget, I depend on “vanity searches” by the individual or their staff to suggest that their participation might be beneficial. As we have discussed many times, I am not responsible for the way that other…
…t think that possible. JohnSmith You may want to also look at Jacobson and Sovacool. Both claim nuclear produces way more CO2 than what it actually does. Here are some popular articles and peer-reviewed articles by Jacobson: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030/ https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnPolicyPt1.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/ReviewSolGW09.pd…
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