I’ve mentioned that I like to keep tabs on a pro-nuke (anti-renewables) group, and make helpful contributions to their discussions. Recently, I notice that they’re a bit freaked out that the cost of lithium-ion batteries is soon to fall to …
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Frequent commenter “BreathOnTheWind” asks: Could someone “remind” me why Nuclear Energy is essential as a “new model” for an era without fossil fuels? I would summarize the issues with nuclear as follows:
Obviously, renewable energy has a whole host of nay-sayers who make a variety of points, including: • It’s expensive. (This is true, though it’s becoming less so each day – and it depends on how one does the accounting. Some of …
A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this piece on Germany’s adoption of renewable energy. It’s good, but I wish it were a bit more informative. We already knew that heavy penetration of variable resources gives systems operators heartburn, and that …
