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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

Distressingly elitist view from two “sustainability consultants”

October 18, 2013 By Rod Adams

Joris van Dorp is an HVAC and energy systems mechanical engineer at a building installations consultancy. His primary work is associated with projects intended to improve energy efficiency/sustainability within the field. Clients include medical centers, airports, data centers, laboratories, office buildngs and some industrial clients. On October 18, 2013, Joris submitted the following comment. It […]

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

Mark Jacobson pushing his plans in appropriate location – late night comedy show

October 13, 2013 By Rod Adams

On October 9, 2013, David Letterman interviewed Mark Z. Jacobson, a leading proponent of a 100% renewable energy future. He described Jacobson as a man with a plan that should make us all more optimistic; that plan describes a world that has a completely changed energy supply system that does not threaten us with catastrophic […]

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

Talk of electric power grid demise is wrong

September 6, 2013 By Rod Adams

Someday, America is going to return to logic and reality. We may be making some progress as shown by the fact that there are an increasing number of people who no longer watch TV or trust the TV talking heads in the entertainment business called “television news.” However, we still have our issues. One irrational […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Fracking, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Tina Gerhardt thinks Obama Administration likes nuclear energy – Huffington Post

July 13, 2013 By Rod Adams

Tina Gerhardt has published an almost sadly amusing article on the Huffington Post titled Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Nuclear Energy? in which she tries to make the case that President Obama’s climate action plan is an undeserved endorsement of nuclear energy. Although less in the headlines than the plan’s position on coal-fired power plants, hydraulic […]

Filed Under: Energy density, Nuclear Cost Data, Solar energy, Wind energy

Call them unreliable

April 21, 2013 By Rod Adams

Rick Maltese is a creative artist who spent this afternoon creating an amusing parody of the diffuse, weather dependent, unreliable power sources that some think can beat both fossil fuel and nuclear energy. Share Call Them Unreliable widely! PS – Just in case you would like to have a sing along at your next pronuclear […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Pro Nuclear Video, Solar energy, Wind energy

Explaining my dismissal of fossil fuel alternatives that are NOT nuclear fission

February 14, 2013 By Rod Adams

I’ve been engaging in a discussion with several commenters who strongly disagree with my assertion that atomic fission is the ONLY technology that has the technical potential to beat hydrocarbon combustion in the market. It can provide cheaper, cleaner and more reliable heat that can be converted into useful power in almost exactly the same […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Enormous differences between Southern Co & Solyndra

February 2, 2013 By Rod Adams

Matt Wald at the New York Times published an article titled Nuclear Opponents Invoke Solyndra that alerted me to a new tactic by the forces arrayed against the beneficial use of nuclear energy in the battle against hydrocarbon addiction and climate change. The new meme is a smear on nuclear energy by falsely attempting to […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear, Solar energy

German solar photovoltaic performance – informative graphic site

January 20, 2013 By Rod Adams

A friend just posted a link to a site that everyone who wants effective energy decision making should bookmark. It is titled Performance of Photovoltaics (PV) in Germany. The site includes animation features that illustrate the modeled output of solar installations over the course of each day. The model used should provide a reasonably good […]

Filed Under: Solar energy, Unreliables

Groups fighting nuclear energy and advocating industrial wind and solar are not environmentalists!

January 8, 2013 By Rod Adams

Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy

I’m mad as hell and I don’t want to take it any more. Groups that fight any and all use of nuclear energy and also spend time advocating for the increased use of massive, industrial scale energy collectors on undeveloped, virgin land should NEVER be called “environmental groups”. I am not saying that the groups […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Solar energy, Wind energy

On the Atomic Insights Radar – November 19, 2012

November 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

On Friday, Nov 16, I wrote about the potential impact of applying a “peanut butter spread” sequestration algorithm to the NRC budget. (I spent a few years as a government budget analyst, so I sometimes speak the lingo.) If the accountants at the Office of Management and Budget continue on their proposed path, the NRC […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic Insights Radar, Nuclear regulations, Solar energy, Wind energy

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