Search Results for: "smoking gun"

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B&W mPower cover story about lack of interest is bogus

…Small Modular Reactors Despite Industry Concerns People who have read the ‘smoking gun’ posts here over the past few years may be as suspicious as I am about the motives of investors who sabotage new nuclear technology development. There is a large universe of people who prosper from the fact our modern society is addicted to hydrocarbons with few, if any, reliable alternatives. By discouraging investments in the only alternative that works — acti…

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Examples of regulatory costs for nuclear energy development

…res some of the same ideas. Robert Bradley { 12.06.11 at 11:26 am } On the smoking gun, good detective work. I am always interested in inter-fuel political fighting, which is my specialty as far as a lot of my writing on political capitalism )vs. free-market capitalism) goes. Keep searching and documenting … On unnecessary regulation, I would have to let insurance companies (sans Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act ) try to determine t…

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Stanford climate scientists promote 100% renewable revolution using natural gas money

…e need to understand the energy supply markets. Thanks Rod for the last 2 “smoking gun” blog posts. They not only show what is going on at Stanford, but show how established industries naturally behave to support the current state of affairs over anything that will result in challenging new market entries. Bas “close to 100% of energy production experts … would agree that it is functionally impossible to increase the “wind, water and sun (WWS)”…

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Chevron’s John Watson should follow pronuclear words with nuclear energy investments

…h that supports my continuing contention that oil and gas interests hold a smoking gun that has wounded their nuclear energy competitors is the fact that the world’s energy suppliers have little, if any, investment in expanding commercial energy production from uranium and thorium. They call themselves “energy companies” and frequently talk about their interest in wind, solar, biofuel, and geothermal production. Here is how Chevron describes itsel…

FUD About Nuclear Energy From Two Highly Educated Solar Energy Technologists

…nd whose adverse consequences are tolerable. The statement could be just a smoking gun that supports my contention that a significant portion of the anti-nuclear rhetoric that you can read or hear is actually an effort by energy industry competitors to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). Competing with nuclear energy production on objective measures like levelized electricity cost, system reliability, and electricity quality is virtually imp…

Wind Generation Does Not Reduce Fossil Fuel Use and Emissions Enough To Make it Worth The Public Investment

…other in the neck and walking together into get this legislation passed.” Smoking Gun Attack on Nuclear From Aloys Wobben, Enercon Managing Director Wirth is also closely associated with the natural gas industry, so his recommendation indicates that there is a strong faction within that industry that understands that increasing wind penetration also increases natural gas sales, so the two deep pocketed industries often go arm in arm to politician…

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Logical Basis For Sec. Rick Perry’s Resiliency Pricing Rule.

…en documented in articles published on Atomic Insights in the category of ‘smoking gun’. Those sustained propaganda campaigns make it politically easier for owners to shut down units that are actually making money, but at a rate that is insufficient to meet corporate margin goals. The survivor of the elimination rounds of the modern wholesale electricity markets, should they be allowed to continue their present path without intervention, is abunda…

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Ed Markey, LNG and antinuclear activity

…a. The brochure concludes with a proud description that would qualify as a smoking gun if it bothered to mention the fact that LNG’s success has come as a direct result of the success of the antinuclear activists to destroy its main competition. Since 1971, We’ve Been Redefining the Role of Natural Gas in North America. GDF SUEZ has been a pioneer in the modern LNG industry both internationally and in North America, where more than three decades a…

Is the Energy Market a Zero Sum Game Where Various Sources "Go Negative" in Order to Capture Market Share from Competitors?

…viewing them as battles over market share. I never did find a really good “smoking gun” example in which someone described their battles against nuclear power plants as a way to sell more natural gas. Colorado does not have any operating nuclear power plants – perhaps that explains why that particular elephant in the room was never mentioned during the several hours of conference proceedings available on the web. I found an excellent example of on…

The Public Should Support Nuclear Power, but it Should Share the Bounty

…the high cost of building nuclear power plants. Of course, there are the “smoking gun” type articles that come directly from the competition that favors investing money into their technology instead of nuclear. Even credible financial publications like The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and the Financial Times often publish similar stories. (My cynical side would ask critical thinkers to take some time to peruse some back issues…

Applying Yandel's "Bootleggers and Baptists" Theory of Regulation to Energy Establishment and "Environmentalists"

…rs. I have documented evidence of this alignment of interests through the “smoking gun” series of posts here on Atomic Insights and engaged in numerous discussions with both nuclear supporters and anti-nuclear activists. Normally, my theory is met with a strong dose of skepticism and disbelief. Today, while enjoying a visit to the Seeker Blog I noticed a link to an article titled Bootleggers, Baptists, and Global Warming that attracted my attentio…

ExxonMobil, One of the Biggest Owners of the Energy Supply Casino, Explains Its Big Bets on Natural Gas

…for 10-20 new nuclear power plants. Mr. Colton’s statement qualifies as a smoking gun of the “damning with faint praise” genre. I also think it qualifies as the kind of smiling advice you might get from a blackjack dealer who says – “House stands”. Disclosure: I have recently bet with the house and more than doubled my holdings of Chesapeake Energy. That is my favorite choice of companies that will gain a substantial benefit when natural gas pric…

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