…tists (UCS) wrote the following letter to that organization. The UCS, like Amory Lovins’s Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), promotes the idea that inherently unreliable wind and solar generators can supply reliable electricity because they can be distributed and networked with other unreliable sources that will be able to provide power from somewhere else. They like to imply that this “distributed generation” capability makes the existing grid obsol…
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Detailed and valuable article about utility sized nuclear power prospects
…, 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…
"Wall Street Does Not Like Nuclear Power" – That's Great, Because I Do Not Like Wall Street!
…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…
Here's a Shocker – S. David Freeman Does Not Like Nuclear Power
…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…
Slanted, Loaded Language at Cleanair.org – a Front For Methane Supporters
…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…
Non combustion energy source growth
…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…
The Atomic Show #034 – Aimless atomic chatting
…hat, but that is the way that conversations go at times. Here are some links that you might find useful if any of the topics whets your interest. Steorn’s “free energy” claim Village voice article that discusses graffiti and “broken windows” Warren Buffett versus Amory Lovins on nuclear power N-waste storage plan grows dim in Skull Valley Ashley Yeager’s article titled “Nuclear Power on the Rise” http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/tpn_atomic_…
90 Billion Dollars Worth of Motive to Discourage Investments in Nuclear Power By Developers of "Clean" Liquified Natural Gas
…listening to cheerleaders like Al Gore, Tim Wirth, John Podesta, Joe Romm, Amory Lovins, or Big Gav (a prolific blogger who often writes anti-nuclear pieces that appear on The Energy Collective, but who also writes a lot about the economic development potential from projects aimed at exploiting abundant gas resources in his native Australia.) Please ask yourself – would a project like this even be considered if there was less fear about nuclear en…
Plutonium: Valuable Fuel or Costly Waste?
…alph Nader’s umbrella organization), the Rocky Mountain Institute (home of Amory Lovins, a noted proponent of alternative energy), the Sierra Club, and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group made the following statement on December 20, 1996 in a letter to Hazel O’Leary, the soon to be former Secretary of Energy. “We urge in the strongest of terms, therefore, that your Record of Decision [on weapons material disposal] take the following form: [ite…
Atomic Show #256 – Tom Turner Talks About David Brower
…appeared just last weekend titled Mojave Desert at stake in far-reaching federal energy plan and agreed that perhaps the sources that everyone wanted to believe were going to save the future weren’t quite as free of impact as they had been led to believe. We talked about Amory Lovins, Mark Jacobson and the 100% renewable movement. I think you’ll enjoy the show and want to share it widely. As always, comments are welcome. http://s3.amazonaws.com/At…
If wind energy does not reduce CO2 emissions, why bother?
…part of the program was an effort to support the “research” of people like Amory Lovins, who has been called an energy guru for his constant refrains about taking “the soft energy path.” A part of the evidence for my story is the fact that this man, a college dropout from two schools, managed to publish a very lengthy piece in Foreign Affairs in 1976, just in time to influence the US Presidential election held that year. (Foreign Affairs is a publ…
The wonderful blue glow
…k Moore and CAMECO CEO Jerry Grandy have taken that step, but others, like Amory Lovins and Paul Gunter will likely go to their graves before they admit that their life’s work has been fighting on the wrong side of an issue that has huge implications for human development and prosperity. We will keep hearing about the waste issue, but it is no reason to slow down in the quest to actually build new plants as quickly as we can given all of the other…
