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Abundance is our Future but Nukes Have a Huge PR Challenge

March 13, 2012 By Rod Adams

Peter Diamandis, the head of the X Prize Foundation, recently gave a TED talk titled Abundance is Our Future. It was an inspiring, energetic talk full of optimism for the ability of technology to solve the world’s biggest challenges. In all areas of technology but one, Peter is on target. When it came to his […]

Filed Under: Solar energy, Unreliables

UK solar subsidies

January 24, 2012 By Rod Adams 22 Comments

UK Solar PV Offer

I just received the below solar PV advertisement in a mass email. I am certainly glad that I am not a UK resident and taxed to support this kind of generous payments – guaranteed to be a drain on the economy for the next 25 years. Can anyone please help me to understand what must […]

Filed Under: Solar energy, Unreliables

Damning nuclear energy with faint praise – sponsored by Shell Oil Company

December 23, 2011 By Rod Adams

The Discovery Channel is teasing a show called Earth 2050: Powering the Future. One of the primary sponsors of the show is the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Here is a brief teaser about future energy supplies from “renewable” sources of power. On the one hand, it was interesting to note that Discovery had classified […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Unreliables cannot provide energy security or enhance natural environment

September 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

Hiking Group 2006

My new word for the energy sources popularly known as “renewables” is “unreliables”. Though there may be some tiny exceptions, the general characteristic is that they are all diffuse sources that cannot actually be controlled by humans or automated control systems. One of the main reasons that energy has been a huge political topic since […]

Filed Under: Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Wind & solar are not “intermittent”; they are unreliable, unpredictable, uncontrollable and worthless

September 6, 2011 By Rod Adams

Wind turbines spread over hills in Wales

While driving home after a great Labor Day weekend with friends and family, we ran into scattered showers. My wife helped me figure out the switches that control the timing of the intermittent windshield wipers for both the front and rear windows. (She is the primary driver for our recently purchased family vehicle; I had […]

Filed Under: Solar energy, Unreliables, Wind energy

Thoughtful TV discussion about nuclear energy in Colorado post Fukushima

June 26, 2011 By Rod Adams

Watch the full episode. See more Colorado State of Mind. On Friday, June 24, 2011, the Colorado State of Mind program aired a discussion about nuclear energy that featured respectful conversation from several different points of view. The impetus for the discussion was to reflect on the implications of the recent Associated Press portrayal of […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Solar energy, Wind energy

Why does anyone trust Robert Alvarez’s opinions about nuclear energy?

June 13, 2011 By Rod Adams

Front Page The Energy Collective June 13 2011

The Energy Collective, is an aggregation site that provides a wide variety of views about energy. It is often a place with high quality discussions, but it can also be a site where article placement decisions completely baffle me. Yesterday, I visited The Energy Collective and found out that the best, most visible spot on […]

Filed Under: Politics of Nuclear Energy, Solar energy

Gullible Reporting By New York Times On the Cost of Solar Electricity Versus Nuclear Electricity

July 28, 2010 By Rod Adams

A few days ago, a retired economics professor named John Blackburn and a student named Sam Cunningham who is seeking a Masters of Environmental Management published a paper commissioned by NC Warn, an organization that, in its own words, is “tackling the accelerating crisis posed by climate change — along with the various risks of […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Nuclear Cost Data, Solar energy, Unreliables

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