After the Chernobyl incident, nuclear power became infamous as a potent yet deadly source of alternative energy. It would seem that no one would want to take second chances, not after the calamity that fell on the once prosperous city …
From Guest-Blogger Jessica Greenberg: Nuclear Power – Is the Industry Doomed to Fail? Read More »
Thanks to frequent commenter Tim Kingston for sending me these two articles with which I begin the work week here at 2GreenEnergy. First is a pro-nuke piece – certainly a concept that defies what I’ve come to believe, yet I try to …
Photovoltaics, Biofuels, and Nuclear Energy – Some Food for Thought Read More »
Looks like the Obama Administration wasn’t kidding about an “all-of-the-above strategy,” i.e., the deployment of every available source of energy; the U.S. DoE announced the implementation of small modular reactors (SMRs). For me to see value here, in addition to being …
On my post on the costs of nuclear energy, frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: Nuclear may go away for the next 50 years or so, not because of renewables beating them on price but because gas from fracking has become …
Larry Lemmert, astute as always, wrote a terrific comment here, to the effect that our assessments of the dangers of nuclear energy are unfounded, and the math we attempt to apply here unfair. I think it’s true that there is …
Rick Maltese is a bright, thoughtful guy, and makes some very solid statements on behalf of nuclear energy. He writes: Statistically safety for nuclear power in the US does better than renewables, mind you it is only marginally. You may …
I wrote to a friend yesterday that I really don’t know whom or what to trust when it comes to evaluating the safety of nuclear energy. Obviously, there is a ton of content that suggests a cover-up on Fukushima, i.e., …
We often read articles that acknowledge that, while Fukushima was indeed a disaster, that it caused an unwarranted spike in fear of danger of nuclear power, and that this alarmist message was spread by those with an anti-nuclear agenda. On …
I write often on the folly of nuclear energy. If it were cheap, I guess we could have a conversation about how we could deal with the safety issues. But it isn’t; it’s fantastically expensive. Apparently General Electric CEO Jeffrey …
General Electric Moving Away from Nuclear Energy Read More »
Regarding my piece earlier on cold fusion, my old school friend Duke Brooks writes, “I thought the idea of cold fusion died in the 1990s with Pons and Fleischmann.” Cold fusion, while fantastically controversial, is definitely not dead. To summarize …
