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Mark Jacobson describes attributes of his incredibly optimistic wind, water, solar energy plans

December 15, 2015 By Rod Adams 48 Comments

During COP16, Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson described attributes of his team’s most recently produced paper. The abstract leads with the following claim about the paper’s content. This study addresses the greatest concern facing the large-scale integration of wind, water, and solar (WWS) into a power grid: the high cost of avoiding load loss caused by […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Solar energy, Wind energy

Climate scientists skeptical about Mark Z. Jacobson’s 100% renewable energy “plans”

December 14, 2015 By Rod Adams 22 Comments

During COP21, Energy for Humanity‘s Kirsty Gogan moderated a press conference featuring Drs. James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel, and Ken Caldeira. The complete event is available on YouTube at [LIVE] Conférence presse de James Hansen à La Galerie by World Efficiency. These experts are the four climate scientists who have spent a part of […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Solar energy, Wind energy

Atomic Show #247 – Jigar Shah, founder SunEdison and Generate Capital

October 19, 2015 By Rod Adams 33 Comments

Jigar Shah is the founder of SunEdison, a former CEO of the Carbon War Room, and is currently the President of Generate Capital. He is also a member of The Energy Gang on Greentech Media. Jigar and I have been engaged in some lively discussions on Twitter about the future of solar and nuclear energy […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Climate change, Economics, Podcast, Solar energy

Democratic Party presidential candidates answer question about climate change and energy plans

October 15, 2015 By Rod Adams 99 Comments

Transcript of the video above. Anderson Cooper: A lot of questions about climate change. I want to go to Don Lemon. Don? Don Lemon: This one is for Martin O’Malley. Governor O’Malley, this one is from Anna Bettis from Tempe Arizona. Anna Bettis: As a young person I am very concerned about climate change and […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Solar energy, Wind energy

Hero worship of a corporate welfare king – Elon Musk

June 1, 2015 By Rod Adams

A May 30, 2015 story in the Los Angeles Times titled Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies provides an enlightening look at the basis for Musk’s recent business success. His visionary — and generously subsidized — enterprises including Tesla, Solar City and SpaceX have resulted in his elevation to […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Solar energy

Australia’s blinkered vision in China’s commitment to reduce global warming

December 3, 2014 By Guest Author

By Robert Parker President, Australian Nuclear Association Two of the most powerful nations on earth have concluded an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Included in that agreement is reference to nuclear power being used to limit those emissions. Yet in Australia even discussion of nuclear power is taboo. We continue to frame the control […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Energy density, Fossil fuel competition, International nuclear, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Atomic Show #228 – Energiewende status

November 26, 2014 By Rod Adams

On November 18, 2014, I participated in a round table discussion hosted by the Global American Business Institute (GABI) and the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER). The guest speaker for the round table was Georg Maue, First Secretary for Climate and Energy, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, DC. The topic […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Climate change, Podcast, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

David MacKay asks his audience to use arithmetic to understand energy challenges

September 9, 2014 By Rod Adams

After posting a couple of videos with Amory Lovins providing his energy mirage, several commenters indicated they would like to hear and see a different point of view. Unlike Amory, David MacKay is a physicist who likes to use real numbers and simple arithmetic to illustrate the scale of the challenge of replacing the power […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Energy density, Solar energy, Wind energy

Atomic Show #217 – Michael Mariotte, President NIRS

June 19, 2014 By Rod Adams

At the suggestion of a long time Atomic Insights contributor and Atomic Show listener, I invited Michael Mariotte for a guest appearance on the Atomic Show. In the small world made up of active nuclear advocates and people adamantly opposed to nuclear energy, Mariotte and his organization are famous — or infamous, depending on one’s […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Podcast, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Limitations of unreliable energy sources (aka “renewables”)

November 19, 2013 By Rod Adams

As part of the discussions stimulated by their airing of Pandora’s Promise, CNN hosted a debate between Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute and Dale Bryk of the Natural Resources Defense Council. That debate included some commentary that I thought was worth promoting to the front page. A commenter named Fred, a tech who has […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Batteries, Solar energy, Wind energy

Solar energy salesman claims nuclear costs twice as much as solar

November 11, 2013 By Rod Adams

In the above clip titled Is nuclear power good for our planet Andrew Birch, the co-founder and CEO of Sungevity says that the main reason that he does not like nuclear energy is that it “costs too much”. However, he reveals the shallow nature of his energy production understanding and his financially driven bias by […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Solar energy

Breakthrough Institute’s Michael Shellenberger debates NRDC’s Dale Bryk about nuclear energy

November 10, 2013 By Rod Adams

Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute states that he loves wind and solar and always has, but he has learned to recognize their limitations. He reminds viewers that solar energy produces less than one tenth of one percent of the energy used in the United States. He is deeply concerned about climate change and the […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition, Solar energy, Wind energy

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