…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 Western countries continue to rely heavily on coal-fired power plants built decades ago with outdated, inefficient technology that burn a…
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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…
