…one passage that stands out as something that needs to be logged now as a smoking gun. The below quote begins on page 41. To those geologists who believed the site unsuitable, Yerkes and Wentworth from the USGS and Barclay Kamb from Cal Tech, the site could be accurately described as being “within a fault zone.” As Kamb described it: “The disturbed zone at Malibu passes directly beneath the proposed reactor installation… In relation to the possib…
…is seems to be a very important piece. It almost seems worthy of a slight “Smoking Gun” marking. When did you stop numbering your Smoking Gun series? -Joel Brian Mays As Jack Gerard observed in 2001, at the end of the California electricity crisis: “In California, they used to speculate that the least expensive kilowatt is the one that is not used. Now events are proving that the most expensive kilowatt is the one that’s not there when needed.” Un…
…s not publicly available and proclaimed to the world that they had found a smoking gun “proving” that SCE had knowingly installed faulty equipment. Aside from the fact that such an assertion was absurd – why on earth would any corporation take the risk of installing components known to be faulty into a vital, multi-billion dollar production facility capable of producing between $1-$10 million in daily revenue – it exposed a visceral dislike of a p…
…is still (figuratively, speaking, since he passed away in 2007) holding a smoking gun as a well-placed member of the international petroleum industry who helped to establish the antinuclear movement with money and a political push. End Update. The Twitter stream between @Atomicrod (me) and @nirsnet yesterday illustrates how sensitive the antinuclear industry has been taught to be about any implication that their actions may be influenced by the o…
…closely between the lines, you will see why I have put this post into the ‘smoking gun’ category. The discussion is associated with a Wall Street Journal article titled Nuclear Power’s New Hope: Small Reactors. I’ve rearranged the comments so that they flow in order; the blog software that the Journal uses limits how deep a reply thread can go. Aside: I have removed some of my “signatures” and disclosures in the interest of getting rid of extraneo…
…like the high-quality, emission free-product that it is. It qualifies as a smoking gun because it openly lists a couple of trade groups representing competitive suppliers with a strong interest in permanently driving nuclear generators out of the market. Citizens Against Nuclear Bailouts said Tuesday it stands in opposition to “any legislative effort to require consumers to pay higher energy rates to bail out an uncompetitive nuclear energy indust…
…titled Will natural gas surge mean lights out for nuclear? that is full of smoking gun quotes as long as you have been trained to read between the lines. Here is an example: “Natural gas is the only available fuel source that can fill the gap of retiring coal,” said Brian Habacivch, senior vice president of Fellon-McCord & Associates LLC, an energy management firm based in Louisville, Ky. Habacivch doesn’t view nuclear and renewable energy sources…
…titute paid me the compliment of responding to a post that I labeled as a “smoking gun”. I gave the post that label since it provided an example of a man with evident ties to the fossil fuel industry working to discourage the use of nuclear energy. His post was published on MasterResource: a free-market energy blog under the title of Atomic Dreams (Nuclear power not ready for prime U.S. time) I promised a few days ago that I would produce a respon…
…hat all radiation, down to the lowest possible dose, was dangerous. It’s a smoking gun. Of course the figures in this drama also recognized that there were benefits to be realized, but they openly declared that the power needed to be tightly controlled. The strong underlying implication was that “they”, people like them, and people trained (indoctrinated) by them should be the only ones entrusted with the control. It should be noted that the Rocke…
…ven a natural gas-fired power plant. That comment qualifies this post as a smoking gun. Additional reading New York Times (December 25, 2013) Wind Power Developers Race Clock to Secure Subsidy by Diane Cardwell and Matthew Wald Commonwealth Magazine April 2013 interview with Bill Koch, one of the principal funding sources for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. Highly recommended! New York Times (October 22, 2013) Koch Brother Wages 12-Year F…
…t provides a healthy return on investment. I’ve categorized this post as a smoking gun. There is no doubt that Stanford’s interest in promoting its natural gas expertise, research, and educational efforts would be hampered if it admitted an easily proved fact: nuclear energy has numerous advantages over natural gas in a variety of applications, especially in producing large quantities of electricity from stationary power stations with an ultra low…
…r companies with an interest in promoting the expanded use of natural gas. Smoking gun cases built on deductive logic don’t satisfy most people, so I continued my evidence gathering by writing to the contact listed in the press release announcing the first Natural Gas Initiative symposium. May 30, 2015 Dear Mr. Golden: I’m working on a piece about Stanford’s new Natural Gas Initiative. Can you help me find the pages on your web site that identify…
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