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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

Where’s the Wind When You Need It?

January 22, 2014 By Rod Adams

Bonneville Power Authority Load versus generation sources Jan 16-Jan 22, 2014

The Bonneville Power Authority service area has more than 4,000 MW of wind energy capacity installed. They also provide a web-based information service that is updated every five minutes that reports on the service area load, thermal generation, hydro generation, and wind generation. Here is a picture reporting those numbers for the period from Jan […]

Filed Under: Unreliables, Wind energy

Cape Wind scrambling to meet deadline to qualify for $780 million taxpayer gift

December 27, 2013 By Rod Adams

Cape Wind is the leading offshore wind energy project in the United States. In 2001, more than 12 years ago, Jim Gordon, the project founder, started the process of promoting his vision of a building a 430 MWe (peak capacity) field of 130 massive (rotor diameter – 110 m, hub height – 80 m, nacelle […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Smoking Gun, Unreliables, Wind energy

NuScale wins second round of DOE SMR funding under FOA

December 19, 2013 By Rod Adams

On December 12, 2013, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of NuScale as the winner of the second round of funding under the Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). That announcement, which had been due since sometime in September, must have been quite welcome to a lot of really talented and […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Pressurized Water, Reactors, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors, 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

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

Value of an unspoiled view

July 31, 2013 By Rod Adams

One of my favorite Atomic Insights commenters left an inspiring message in a thread that was evolving into a discussion about wind energy, including its environmental impacts and low productivity. Daniel; Do you recall a time when a bucolic scenic view was just priceless; that beyond just property values you just didn’t allow anything mar […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Wind energy

Lorenzini rebuts Sovacool’s defense of nuclear bird kill paper as weak

July 13, 2013 By Guest Author

By Paul Lorenzini Mr. Benjamin Sovacool claims my earlier article misrepresents his works and contains factual errors. Let me respond. He states: First, and most important: Paul has misstated the actual conclusion from my original study. It never advances the conclusion, as he claims, that “nuclear power causes more bird kills than wind.” Au contraire. […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Guest Columns, Lorenzini, 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

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