…of coal, oil and gas. Those are the big three that qualify as toting real guns in the competitive battle against nuclear fission, all others are toting pop guns.) … There was the green advocacy non-profit staffer, hoping against hope that nuclear doesn’t make its way into the mainstream of energy choices. (“Let’s spend the money it takes to build one nuclear plant and spend it putting solar and small wind on every public school in the country.”)…
…le plan in contrast to the way she dismisses climate scientists who recommend inclusion of nuclear energy makes this a smoking gun….
…ading that passage. Almost two years ago, I mentioned him in a post titled Smoking Gun Research Continuing in Earnest, describing how he had given an address at the 1930 meeting of the World Power Conference. His talk included a phrase so memorable in the collective mind of the energy industry leaders that it still appears prominently on the history page of the World Energy Council. In his address, Eddington said that in the future “subatomic ener…
…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…
…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.” Unfortunately, California has sufficiently deindustrializ…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…o a particula isomer of tar. Is this idea a cunning bit of FUD to conflate smoking and nukes ? this would be my guess. I have no where near enough expertise to go beyond a wild guess on this topic. Be curious as to your views. Regards Mark Rod Adams @Mark Bolton Any radiation dose from smoking tobacco would vary substantially depending on the location where the tobacco is grown and what kind of fertilizer is used. That said, I was trained from my…
…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…
…Small Modular Reactors Despite Industry Concerns People who have read the ‘smoking gun’ posts here over the past few years may be as suspicious as I am about the motives of investors who sabotage new nuclear technology development. There is a large universe of people who prosper from the fact our modern society is addicted to hydrocarbons with few, if any, reliable alternatives. By discouraging investments in the only alternative that works — acti…
…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…
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