Nuclear energy advocate Rudy Stefenel writes: Craig, Nuclear reactors are getting sabotaged by the distribution of subsidies. According to an EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) report for 2013, solar farms got nearly three times as much subsidies as nuclear and that wind farms …
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Nuclear energy proponent Dr. Gene Nelson, whose Ph.D. is in biological radiation physics, takes issue with my statement that wind energy offsets fossil fuels, and he certainly has a point. He writes:
As noted yesterday, some of these pro-nuke people have a very dim view of renewables; some of the more extreme among them accuse the entire renewable energy enterprise of being a corrupt/criminal attempt to suck down government subsidies, while knowing …
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Do you ever read an article that presents a certain set of assertions that are so noncontroversial that you’re left wondering what you learned and why you invested the time?
Alex Cannara, the leader of the pro-nuke group of which I am a part, wrote a rebuttal letter to a paper that had claimed (correctly) that wind energy is less expensive than nuclear. He notified the group (about 150 people): …
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The image shown here is from a news article (not a scientific paper) on the connection between CO2 concentrations and climate change from 1912, the same year the Titanic sank. Predating it by several decades were the first scientific studies …
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I came across an article this morning (though I can’t find it now) that referenced a recent conversation that someone supposedly had with legendary environmental activist Bill McKibben, in which the question was posed: “Where do you stand on nuclear, …
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie sent me this article on U.S. solar installations and notes: “Good, but not good enough.” He’s right, of course.
I received a response to my post in which I quoted the American Institute of Physics, re: Donald Trump’s candidate to lead NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Jim Bridenstine, in which I wrote: Bridenstine, an ardent climate denier, proposes that NASA …
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We commonly bemoan the “dumbing down of America,” though we can only speculate as to the exact mechanisms by which this has happened. Is it underfunded schools and underpaid teachers? The decay of the nuclear family? A pop culture that …
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