…Sour grapes. The EBR-II passed the tests for safety. David B. Benson John Holdren was one of Clinton’s science advisors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren and strongly advised killing the IFR deployment test on proliferation grounds. He should have known that this was impossible. See “Plentiful Energy” by Till & Chang for a technical description of the EBR-II but not the politics. Engineer-Poet Hazel O’Leary was a big part of this. Davi…
…listening to the advice of Holdren. This could easily just be t he work of Holdren misleading Obama. I mention this, not because I want to defend Obama, but because if that is the case, there is some hope, that if someone with the money and power to get some face time with Obama (cough, NEI, cough), perhaps they could explain exactly how harmful Holdren‘s advice has been to the nuclear industry that Obama claims to favor. EL He wanted to be renomi…
…th each technological innovation since man had a brain. But since “John P. Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President George Carty I think the T needs to move downstairs 🙂 donb Rod Adams wrote: I’m going to go out on a limb – I oppose energy efficiency programs that are marketed as a source of new energy. I feel the sam…
…ly ignoant on the topic and relies on his advisors for actual policy. With Holdren as his “Science” advisor, we get positive speechifying and negative action. He probably even believes that Holdren‘s advice is pro-nuclear. Bonds 25 Technically, the reactors that experienced core damage at Fukushima were Boiling Water Reactors, not Pressurized Water Reactors. This detail overall has zero to do with your comment……which I totally agree with. It’s…
…wable (unreliable) only grid actually work. Jeff Walther Don’t forget John Holdren. I suspect that he is directly or indirectly responsible for all of the backwards movement we’ve seen in this administration. Obama just doesn’t strike me as a person who actually has even an incorrect understanding of the technical details. Is suspect he’s letting Holdren suggest these horrible nominees and appointees. poa “It is a shame Palestinian women and child…
…he said, or “climate disruption” as Obama’s chief scientific advisor John Holdren prefers to say. One thing I find very convincing is something like the Joint Science Academies statement handed this year to each head of state attending the G8. Its only two pages long. http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/G8+5energy-climate09.pdf Take a look at the signatures. These are: National Academy of Sciences, United States of America Chinese Academy o…
…of NRC currently making the rounds, probably looking for a steady gig John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Frank Von Hipple, Princeton University Science and Global Security Andrea Jennetta Paul, atheist secularist humanist liberal progressive Democrat here. And I am pro-nuclear. 😀 Rod Adams I’m a secular humanist liberal progressive as well. Not so sure about the first and last words in your self description at t…
…d their position in this administration, e.g., Paul R. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren. Engineer-Poet I remain suspicious that the people at the very top of environmental organizations know exactly where their money comes from and have been informed – in many subtle and no so subtle ways – that the spigot will slam shut if they change their tune about nuclear energy. That is exactly what happened to the Sierra Club on the issue of immigration; the ope…
…e the NRC. Jeff Walther My guess is that these suggestions are coming from Holdren as a quiet sabotage of nuclear electricity generation. Obama either hasn’t a clue, or is an outright liar. Worst case, Obama compromises when the Republican’s oppose his appointees, by withdrawing Burns and “settling” for Baran. Then nominates another Baran type with no useful or meaningful experience. SteveK9 I’m not sure who advises Obama on anything (e.g. does he…
…s amplified by influential people like Joe Romm, John Podesta, and John P. Holdren. Before we all crash on the rocks and shoals that his song is pulling us towards, he must be either silenced or overcome by a higher intensity generation of more accurate information. John Chatelle @Dr. Miller In Boston Consulting Group format Oil is only the Cash Cow of many large Multinational Oil Companies. Natural Gas is an Oil companies’ Star. Amory Lovin’s is…
…vement, which was a breeding ground for antinuclear “scientists” like John Holdren and provided many antigrowth and antinuclear messages. I have mixed emotions about 21st Century Science and Technology. It is a LaRouche publication with some of the weirdness that implies. However, it has published some excellent work on atomic fission over the years, often providing an outlet for scientists and engineers whose work contradicted the story that the…
…e Population Bomb and subsequent work. One of his primary colleagues, John Holdren, is now the President’s Science Advisor. Underlying the population control movement was a great deal of money from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and directly from John D. Rockefeller III who thought that a growing human population was a grave risk to the planet. This movement was no some sort of fringe group; it spread throughout the halls of power and included such…
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