Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog chats about energy subsidies

ByRod Adams

The Energy Information Agency has recently released a report in response to a Congressional request to put numbers on the subsidies provided to various energy sources. The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital Blog is discussing that report with a post titled At the Trough: A Peak at US Energy Subsidies. The discussion is currently being dominated by a man who spends a lot of time quoting various slanted reports from organizations like Public Citizen and Nuclear Information and Research Service (NIRS) that deny the numbers provided by the government agency assigned to the task of answering congress.

What are those stages of grief again? I think that there are some in the anti-nuclear community that are mired in the denial phase as they face the loss of their raison d’etre.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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