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…Wow! We invaded a country on less evidence than that.That’s not a smoking gun; it’s a signed confession and the judge has tossed out the motion to suppress. Ioannes Jean Demesure is correct. Support nuclear energy simply because it’s the best way to generate electricity, NOT because of the religion of AGW and false goddess Gaia. BTW, the Red Chinese will continue to use and expand nuclear energy. Being communist, they don’t care what the former R…

…employees. A good friend sent me a link to one of the most direct smoking guns I have been able to post in quite some time. It is a YouTube video of an August 2008 BBC interview with Arthur Scargill, the former President of the British National Union of Miners. The occasion for the interview was Scargill’s attendance at Climate Camp 2008. Please watch this brief interview to help you understand just what I am trying to say about the confluence of…

…le in Britain, he added. As always, my point in bringing you these smoking gun stories is to work to undermine the “moral high ground” that has been assumed by many of the participants in the energy discussions. I have nothing against commercial enterprises working hard to sell their wares, and I fully recognize that one effective tool in marketing is to denigrate your competition. Those who battle nuclear power are often doing it for financial re…

…dy? PS – I almost forgot to explain why this story qualifies as a “smoking gun”. Normally, I use that key word when I find articles that directly support the notion that the fossil fuel industry is supporting efforts to hamper the development of atomic energy. I expect that most of you can understand that the battle in Kansas is not about clean air; if a nuclear plant was the proposal instead of a coal plant there would be similar attempts to use…

…t of 1974 that I thought would be worth preserving as part of the “smoking gun” series. Here goes: Shannon: Just in case it has gotten lost in our give and take, the postulate that I am trying to advance is that people associated with fossil fuel and desiring to maintain its market share played at least as large a role in the slowdown of nuclear power development as “the leftists” that you blame. You wrote: For which you have zero evidence save fo…

….” At this point, I began to get suspicious that there might be a ‘smoking gun’ here since I know that there are also a large number of potential nuclear power plant projects under investigation in Texas that ELIMINATE (as opposed to reducing) emissions if they replace older coal or gas plants. Then comes the real kicker. Opponents to the coal-fired power plants hope to promote alternative solutions to the looming energy crisis. Two such options a…

…quite some time since I last published an article designated as a smoking gun, but in the past few days a number of events have convinced me that it is vitally important to work harder to raise awareness about the multi-decade effort by energy competitors to put as many barriers as possible in the way of nuclear energy developments. Here is a quote from Hofmeister’s book: By extension, don’t expect the whole energy industry to speak with one voic…