…omm, an energy industry and climate change pundit who was once mentored by Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, recently sat down at his keyboard to produce a piece providing the basis for his opinion that James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley and Kerry Emanuel — and hundreds to thousands of other nuclear energy proponents — are wrong about nuclear power and overestimating its potential contributions to our future clean energy needs and…
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Credibility of Influential Paper On ‘100% Renewables’ Challenged by Peer-Reviewed Critique
…energy. It has been referenced by such luminaries as Sen. Bernie Sanders, Amory Lovins, Al Gore, Bill McKibben and Mark Ruffalo. Jacobson’s papers and appearances have also received publicity support from the Stanford public affairs office. The asserted possibility of an energy system powered completely by non-nuclear renewables has resulted in a number of entities, including major corporations, municipalities, certain crunchy states and even ent…
Salon.com February 26, 2009 discussion about nuclear power
…than 150 at last count) The term “fossil fuel” does not equal “petroleum” Amory Lovins admits he works for oil companies Hydrogen production is certainly not “cheap” In that thread you will find two or three rather dismissive anti-nuclear posters whose main response to any information is to claim that it is irrelevant and whose main sources of information appear to be whatever they happen to find on the Internet that supports their belief system….
Edison Mission Energy cancels order for 150 large wind turbines
…dison Unit Cancels Suzlon Order. Something tells me that you will not hear Amory Lovins or Joseph Romm mentioning the technical issue discussed in the article. A quick Google search leads me to believe that this story is not being told in many US based media outlets; the only one I could find in addition to the Wall Street Journal was Forbes. Here is the scoop. In recent months, Suzlon, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing wind turbine m…
Opposing view
Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), one of the anti-nuclear industry’s leading mouthpieces has produced another diatribe against the use of the cleanest, cheapest, most abundant, and most reliable energy source available both now and in the immediate future. You can find this document at http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1154.php. During the next couple of days, I will pull out key passages for analysis and discussion. Here is some…
Comment from a reader about support for Czech anti nuclear movement
…can explain why what they are doing is OK, and I think those guys such as Amory Lovins “get it” not only because of funding, but also because their shallow rooting in hard sciences… Anyways, I’m glad that the wheel is turning 🙂 I’ve seen several online discussions in Czech and the only anti-nuclear contributers were a few well known professional activists which got completely ridiculed by dozens of pro-nuclear contributors (and usually one or two…
If you really care about carbon…
…wables-only, no-nukes” energy vision first articulated four decades ago by Amory Lovins and now embedded in the DNA of too many long time environmental advocates. As many studies have shown, it is possible in theory, but at what cost and with what infrastructure challenges? The problem was summed up well by Kevin Bullis, editor of MIT’s Technology Review: “… delve into these roadmaps and you’ll often find jaw-dropping numbers of solar panels and w…
Useful discussion by pro and anti-nuclear activists
…e set of actions to stop it. Those actions included supporting people like Amory Lovins – who freely admits that he has worked for major oil companies for 35 years – in their efforts to convince people that we can get all the energy we need from wind, solar, waves, and geothermal. He has been writing about the “Soft Energy Path” since the early 1970s in widely read publications, but our coal consumption has increased from about 600 million tons pe…
All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today
…societies dependent on their current foundation of hydrocarbon combustion. Amory Lovins, Mark Z. Jacobson and Daniel Cohan fall into this category. They all have strong, documented financial ties to the hydrocarbon establishment. End Aside. That is perhaps a lengthy way to set the stage for my BHAG of a 100% clean energy system fueled mainly by atomic fission of thorium, uranium, and plutonium. It is already well-proven that it’s possible to opera…
How should you respond to debate opponents who “make things up”?
…owedly antinuclear group named Friends of the Earth – the same group where Amory Lovins cut his antinuclear teeth in the early 1970s. NEI Nuclear notes has some additional information about the topic of the report and Mr. Gundersen’s role in criticizing the industry that once employed him. If you want to learn more about steam generators and about steam generator technology improvement programs, I highly recommend the following two articles from A…
Taiwan favoring coal for new generating needs
…ices, they WANT to believe that there is an easy – or, in the word used by Amory Lovins, “soft” – way to ensure a sufficient supply. According to the people who have hope as their strategy, they fervently BELIEVE that somehow “free”, “natural” source like the wind, sun, and geothermal will be able to combine with a few high effort choices like biomass and “clean natural gas” to provide all the energy we need – as long as we ALL change our lifestyl…
Fission advocates should cooperate to dispel misinformation about radiation health effects
…hers. You can understand why I believe that when you listen to people like Amory Lovins, Carl Pope, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or Joe Romm talk about using natural gas as a bridge to their utopian future. If you are interested in learning more, I suggest a search on the web for “health effects of low level radiation”. There are some terrific peer reviewed papers from people like Luckey, Pollycove, Calabrese, Cuttler, Kondo, and Rockwell. Every technol…
