• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Podcast
  • Archives
  • Links

Atomic Insights

Atomic energy technology, politics, and perceptions from a nuclear energy insider who served as a US nuclear submarine engineer officer

Wind energy

How fast can offshore wind be deployed? What are infrastructure requirements?

October 16, 2011 By Guest Author 16 Comments

Offshore wind farm

Guest post by Andy Dawson One anti-nuclear argument that’s frequently made is that nuclear is slow to deploy – that renewables can make inroads into carbon production rather faster than can building new nuclear stations. I was recently provoked into taking a look at this, in the context of the UK’s 2020 and 2030 CO2 […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Unreliables, Wind energy

95% disagree with “Beyond Nuclear”. Let’s make it 99%

October 14, 2011 By Rod Adams

Berkeley Patch Headline "Shut down all Fukushima-like Nuclear Plants

One of the more powerful concepts that I studied in college was called “groupthink.” The curriculum developers in the history department at the US Naval Academy thought it was important for people in training to become leaders in the US Navy learn to seek counsel and advice from as broad a range of sources as […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Politics of Nuclear 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

Soft hearts should not be accompanied by soft heads

August 30, 2011 By Rod Adams 13 Comments

Yesterday, Vermont Governor Peter Shumulin appeared on Democracy Now to talk about the effect of Hurricane Irene on his Green Mountain State. Twice in the interview, he used the words irrational, but throughout the interview he and his interviewer were remarkably illogical. Though many parts of his state were being washed away by raging floods […]

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

Industrial wind energy benefits wealthy at expense of many

July 15, 2011 By Rod Adams

Panorama of Cefn Croes Wind Farm Wales, UK

Guest Post by Willem Post The Green Mountain Power (GMP)-instigated 63 MW Lowell wind turbine facility with (21) 3 MW Danish wind turbines stretched along 4 miles of ridge lines has nothing to do with community-scale wind, everything with utility-scale wind. GMP is using blatant PR to soft-soap/deceive Vermonters. It is a capital intensive (63 […]

Filed Under: 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

Are major “environmental” groups paid to help oil and gas interests make more money?

May 26, 2011 By Rod Adams

Red Mustang at Smith Mountain Lake

I deliberately chose a provocative title to discuss a theory that surprises nearly everyone. Though full of many sincere and hard working people who are trying to make the world a cleaner and more human friendly place, I believe that most of the really big and well-funded non-profit organizations that claim to be working for […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Wind energy Tagged With: Environmentalism

If wind energy does not reduce CO2 emissions, why bother?

May 25, 2011 By Rod Adams

Peter Lang has published an intriguing guest post at Brave New Climate titled CO2 avoidance cost with wind energy in Australia and carbon price implications. It has attracted about 125 lengthy, mostly well-referenced comments and repeat visits from Michael Goggin of the American Wind Energy Association. I think renewable energy mythology is a clever distraction […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Wind energy

Some logic still prevails – Cape Wind loan guarantee on hold

May 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

Sun rising with a flock of sea gulls in foreground

The famous project to install 130 massive industrial wind turbines in the Nantucket Sound off of the coast of Massachusetts has hit another stumbling block. Financing for the project was dependent on approval of an application for a large Department of Energy loan guarantee, but the project has been notified that their application is no […]

Filed Under: Wind energy

Environmental Point of View From the Baltimore Chronicle – Pulling Back the Curtain on Wind Power

February 2, 2011 By Rod Adams

Ajax Eastman has just published a piece on the Baltimore Chronicle, non-profit, internet only news site. Ajax’s article, titled Pulling Back the Curtain on Wind Power is one of the clearest, most concise explanations for why building massive turbines is a dumb idea that is only being done because there are large, misdirected expenditures of […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Wind energy

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5

Primary Sidebar

Search Atomic Insights

The Atomic Show

Atomic Insights

Follow Atomic Insights

Recent Posts

Kenneth Pitzer blamed AEC advisors for slow power reactor development

Why did the US Atomic Energy Commission kill Daniels Pile in 1947?

How did an oil shale investor hamstring his atomic energy competition? (Ancient but impactful smoking gun)

Improved atomic energy offers a pathway that Princeton’s Net Zero America failed to acknowledge

Adams Engines™: Design Concepts

  • Home
  • About Atomic Insights
  • Atomic Show
  • Contact
  • Links

Search Atomic Insights

Archives

Copyright © 2021 · Atomic Insights

Terms and Conditions - Privacy Policy