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…io of Greenpeace, Tom Cochrane of the NRDC, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Michael Mariotte of NIRS, or Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research claim that nuclear power is destined to fail because “Wall Street does not like nuclear power”, take that as a ringing endorsement for the technology. Perhaps someday, they will figure out that recent history has clearly exposed t…

…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…

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…

…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…

…, there are numerous passages that quote the usual anti-nuclear suspects – Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute (the self described physicist who may or may not have any formal academic degree), David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Jim Riccio of Greenpeace, As would be expected from such an article, there is a strong focus on the economic aspects, including trotting out the approved, shortened version of Lewis Strauss’s…

…y much of the works of one of my other least favorite energy commentators, Amory Lovins. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he claims that we can fight global warming, prevent the construction of new coal fired power plants, and increase our energy dependence by halting all nuclear power development and shutting down our existing plants. His cure all energy sources are wind and solar and – oh yeah, a bit of natural gas to bridge the gap while w…

…able technologies” (words taken almost verbatim from the numerous works of Amory Lovins dating back to the mid 1970s) and the following words about nuclear power from Electricity from Nuclear Power: Some of the most serious impacts linked to the generation of electricity on land can also be attributed to nuclear plants. Whereas the amount of solid wastes generated at nuclear plants is relatively small, these radioactive wastes pose health risks th…

…show the contrast with them compared to the “Soft Energy Path” proposed by Amory Lovins in 1975. I have been engaged in a couple of activities recently that reminded me of that promise, so I started working. Below, you will find a graph showing non-combustion energy sources for the US from 1949-2007. The source data come from the US Energy Information Agency Table 1.3 from the Annual Energy Review, 2007. I am sure you will notice where essentially…