Search Results for: Jerry Taylor Cato

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Identifying antinuclear slants in Richard Martin’s “Superfuel”

ByRod Adams

…more fossil fuel promoting wolf in sheep’s clothing – on a part with Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute. Why in the world would anyone who recognizes that conventional light water reactors have an outstanding safety record and generate massive quantities of emission free power at a reasonable cost decide that shutting down existing nuclear plants is a higher priority that shutting down coal plants – and wants to keep on operating natural gas plant…

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Challenging Master Resource’s implication that Enron was the only rent seeking manipulator

ByRod Adams

…ry lukewarm support and damn the technology with faint praise. People like Jerry Taylor of Cato is actually quite negative about nuclear power and claims that it is way too costly to compete, but he fails to recognize that there are any artificially imposed costs associated with the way that nuclear energy is selectively regulated. Our own Kit P and Bob Applebaum are in that same camp. Rod Adams @Rich – as a modeler and a systems guy, you should r…

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Why is the Green Schools Alliance censoring discussion about nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…see my discussions with Jerry Taylor of Cato https://atomicinsights.com/?s=jerry+taylor. Brian Mays So one side supports nuclear power for the wrong reasons … What exactly are the “wrong reasons” again? Rod Adams @Brian Mays The wrong reason to claim support of nuclear is simply a rejection of the “other side”‘s opposition. It is an ephemeral reason and often more in words than in deeds. It is ephemeral because a true left leaning person should…

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The Establishment Wants Us All To Overreact To Fukushima

ByRod Adams

…you consider Cato to be “conservative”? If so, search Atomic Insights for Jerry Taylor. You’ll find some interesting posts. Bob Applebaum I agree that the normal incidence of leukemia is low. At low doses, the excess incidence of leukemia is also low. That’s why it takes a huge sample in order to discern the difference (50K + is a large sample, but small relative to country’s population). I am fine with your graph and its error bars. The points c…

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Virtual silence at “Golden Fleece” award news conference for SMRs

ByRod Adams

…e of rhetoric (and that of others – I’m sure you recall your exchange with Jerry Taylor over at MasterResource, and I had my own exchanges with him offline), we’d have a “free” market if we did nothing other than remove all explicit government support without actually considering the implicit subsidies certain players get (like treating the atmosphere as an open cesspool) and the unique barriers to others (including, in some cases, explicit taxes…

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