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The Atomic Show #034 – Aimless atomic chatting

…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” Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:22 — 17.3MB) Subscribe: RSS…

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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…

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Atomic Show #256 – Tom Turner Talks About David Brower

…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. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:44 — 61.2MB)…

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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…

China Investing in New Power Generation Technology

…ations. In contrast to the advice provided by people like Jon Wellinghoff, Amory Lovins and Joe Romm, China is not allowing the slowdown in electricity demand growth to enable it to simply stop investing in new power plant technology, hoping that conservation will provide a cheaper way to supply adequate power. Western countries continue to rely heavily on coal-fired power plants built decades ago with outdated, inefficient technology that burn a…

Achievable nuclear nirvana – not so wild dreams by Nick P.

Achievable nuclear nirvana – not so wild dreams by Nick P.

…d the 100% wind, water and sun mirages of people like Mark Z. Jacobson and Amory Lovins is that his proposals are technically achievable. The WWS proposals sound warm and fuzzy, but serious efforts to achieve that goal are doomed to require great sacrifices and probably a far smaller human population. Nick’s ideas are worthy of increased attention and may stimulate a useful discussion, but there is a better chance of that happening if they are pro…

NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation – privately funded, not "extra large"

Amory Lovins likes to deny the fact that private money is very interested in nuclear technology, while Al Gore is convinced that reactors only come in one size – extra large. Two companies have recently formed that put a lie to both of those theories. NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation are both venture funded companies with exciting products in the pipeline. NuScale Power is developing a 45 MWe natural circulation light water reactor tha…

All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today

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…

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…

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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…

Is a Federal Grant Really Income? (Wow, I Never Knew That – Sarcasm)

…of wind turbines during 2009, and the often stated mantra from people like Amory Lovins that, compared to nuclear energy, “renewables are cheaper, faster, vaster, equally or more carbon-free, and more attractive to investors”, please remember that the US taxpayers picked up 30% of the initial cost with a program that is only available for projects that must begin construction between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010. There is only so much tim…

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