…ago 4 were killed in japan by a geologically related explosion of natural gas. Natural gas has been selected as the replacement for nuclear power in the short term and extensive plans are being made for it now for the long haul. ( http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=6470 ) Rod Adams @Mark – that is one of the papers to which I linked in the post. etwas seltsam The potassium-40 is natural, but the Cesiums-134 and 137 do not naturally oc…
…les proponents attacking nuclear -Nuclear proponents attacking renewables -Natural gas proponents attacking everyone else I am not sure I would agree with the idea that the “RE advocates in general are much more hostile towards nuclear than nuclear advocates are towards renewable energy.” However, I would agree that the RE advocates outnumber the nuclear advocates and thus the perception of this hostility could be based on the sheer volume. No mat…
…age value”. That price compares quite favorably with North American “cheap natural gas” which reached a nadir of just under $2.00 per million BTU (MMBTU) and has climbed back up to a hub price of about $3.50 per MMBTU. The delivered price of that widely touted “cheap” fuel has been as high as $35 per (MMBTU) in some locations in the US in the past month. That’s 50 times as costly as commercial nuclear fuel! The one somewhat legitimate argument aga…
…dge Queens NY Amur_Tiger In the US at least you hardly need any more of an natural gas ‘bridge’ then you already have as the low prices of natural gas have put it in a near unassailable position. Moreso anyone concerned about the long term health of the electricity market should shy away from welcoming any more natural gas in then there already is, though there may not be a feasible way of stopping it. Even during times of high NG prices the volat…
…y never really produced much electricity – what CA ended up relying on was natural gas and out of state coal and nuclear plants. When 1/3 of the state’s gas supply was interrupted for several months by a serious pipeline explosion near Carlsbad, NM on August 19, 2000, the stage was set for a catastrophic rise in electricity costs and a near bankruptcy for the utilities. Certainly there was some blame to be placed on Enron and other electricity tra…
…ddeldu Rod Adams Human physiology has no ability to differentiate between “natural” and “artificial” radiation doses. James Greenidge Seasons Greetings! This article is way too candid and perceptive to stay in U.S. blog circles! Can anyone in Japan with Rod’s permission please cut/paste reprint this in comment sections or op eds of Japanese media sites and report on their takes on it? Thanks! James Greenidge Queens NY John Englert She must mandate…
…cannot completely replace fossil fuels, but allowing their use with fewer artificial constraints can increase the world’s energy supply enough to drive fossil fuel consumption and prices WAY down. Demanding “perfect” transparency is a red herring. There are legitimate security needs AND there are fanciful security threats that can be posed to tie nuclear facility operators and system designers up in logical knots. Companies are damned if they rel…
…for the nuclear industry? https://atomicinsights.com/?s=artificial+natural+gas+price Brian Mays Have I been too reticent in sharing my opinions about the artificially low price of natural gas and the implications of that for the nuclear industry? Rod – What? No, not at all. You have been very clear on that point. The pertinent question, however, is what are we going to do about it? Keep the same-old/same-old from the past (nearly) four years? At l…
…at all, especially since we have such better alternatives as coal, oil and natural gas?” (At the time, there was no thought given to sources like wind and solar, even though their availability was well known.) EL Dr. Bugher’s talk … encourages some extremists to leap to the conclusion that the risks are not worth the effort. @Rod Adams So what do you make of the statement: “Nuclear power must be developed in the future, he said, because supplies o…
…as possible so that the final products are not sold at an artificially low price that is only made possible by spreading costs throughout society. If a production method produces a lot of waste that needs to go somewhere, the owner of that “somewhere” has a right to charge a fee. The disposal cost will presumably motivate the production process owner to spend money for designers, engineers, and technicians that can improve the system to reduce the…
…unreserved push for a “renewables-only” solution is forcing an increase in natural gas and unnecessarily damaging habitat. A new environmentalism Rethinking modern environmentalism will necessarily mean a reconsideration of the fundamental premises that guide our thinking. A recent “think-piece” released by the Break Through Institute, co-authored by 18 environmental scientists, activists and scholars, has raised these issues, emphasizing the need…
…to Move Forward on Clean Energy by Peter Lehner, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). PS: I found this note at the bottom of the State Department memo about the July 25, 1959 meeting: An extensive summary of Admiral Rickover’s meeting with Kozlov at Shippingport on July 11, including quotations from their conversation, was published in The New York Times, July 12, 1959. This account notes only that Rickover told Kozl…
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