Ontario's Energy Transition
Energy transitionsOntario's approach is in stark contrast to that taken in Germany, which has a commitment to end the use of nuclear power and rely instead on renewable sources. This has seen...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Energy Roundup #32
[OK, not "32" but I lost count of how many of these I did so there!]A few news items, mostly garnered from World Nuclear News. Love 'em or hate 'em, they do report on new builds, advances and setbacks....
View ArticleFamine in America in 2050
As America runs low on oil, America will run low on food.As America runs very low on oil, America will have widespread famine.
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Energy Roundup #33
Comment:First, the pertinent data on Vietnam's energy development;Vietnam has considered establishing nuclear power generation since 1995, and firm proposals surfaced in 2006. Russia has agreed to...
View ArticleGreen Nuclear Junk
[I had a small hand in this letter but it was drafted and finally put together by Ben Heard and Geoff Russell.--David Walters] Published at http://decarbonisesa.com/... and http://bravenewclimate.com...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Round Up #34
[Continuing coverage of the world's nuclear renaissance. Here, the French designed EPR is coming on line, apparently on time and at budget. Go figure? This will be 2 reactors each 1700 MWs of...
View ArticlePlaying with Plutonium: This SONGS is over
Southern California Edison has finally admitted that their crippled rattletrap of a plutonium factory is no longer profitable enough, despite massive and continuing public subsidies, for them to keep...
View ArticleBob Inglis: Conservatives Have A Climate Solution
“Conservatives have the answer. We just need to raise our hands.” This statement is from Bob Inglis, former representative of South Carolina’s 4th District (1993-1998; 2005-2010). Inglis told me he...
View ArticleGETTING TO ZERO: Is renewable energy economically viable?
This diary is Part II of GETTING TO ZERO: Our non-fossil energy future.Human civilization depends on food, food depends on weather, and weather depends on climate. Every grain and every mammal on the...
View ArticleWrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak
Contaminated water in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.The storage tank breach of about 300 tons of water is...
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President Obama must seize the moment on Iran
There's been quite a bit of good news out of Iran this summer. It began with the election of Hassan Rouhani as president. Rouhani was the leader of Iran's nuclear negotiating team from 2003, when he...
View ArticleCopple policy #1: military and civilian use of nuclear power
Roger Copple, as one of his 27 policy initiatives, proposes:Dismantle all nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, simultaneously and voluntarily, the world over as soon as possible. First of all,...
View ArticleFrank Giustra, President Bill Clinton’s Close Colleague, Joins US Oil Sands...
Frank Giustra - key power broker and close colleague of former President Bill Clinton – has taken a seat on the Board of Directors of U.S. Oil Sands, an Alberta-based company aiming to develop tar...
View ArticleOrwell had nothing on Abe: Secrecy law goes into effect in Japan
The Abe government in Japan has passed a ridiculously repressive government secrecy law that goes beyond anything the NSA could even dream about. According to japansubculture.com the state can now...
View Article“Oh Japan, How Could the Mauled Have Embraced the Beast!”
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster appears to be a simmering Global disaster. “Rachel, get your shoes back on, now!” yelled the tall, ragged looking father. He stood over the child as she...
View ArticleWhy I call myself a non-believer, rather than an atheist.
Atheist implies that I have aBelief System.That's not the case.Some folks might insist that I could make a list of what I feel is true, and what I feel is false, and they might then insist, that,...
View ArticleRadioactive Ocean Plume from Fukushima hits US West Coast - How Bad Is It?
The short answer is that no one knows.Much has been written recently about the radioactive ocean-water plume that is due to hit the west coast sometime this year, possibly as soon as next month. The...
View ArticleAccelerating Use of Renewable Energy
US energy policy is stuck on reliance on natural gas. Most Americans understand that by the middle of the century most of our energy will have to be supplied by renewables – wind, water, and solar –...
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts renewable will be 55% of 2030's $7.7...
Global installed capacity mix and projected additions, by technology (GW) Bloomberg A prediction from Bloomber New Energy Finance: 2030 Market Outlook, has been released showing Bloomberg's energy...
View ArticleJapan Doctor: “Tokyo should no longer be inhabited”
Recently published on the Energy News website.... ... ... http://enenews.com/...http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/...Contamination of the soil can be shown by measuring Bq/kg. Within the 23...
View Article38% of Spain's electricity demand in July met with solar and wind energy
Mridul Chadha of Cleantechnica reports that 38% Of Spain’s July Electricity Demand Was Met By Wind and Solar Power. Low carbon electrical sources supplied 55% of Spains electricity consumption. in the...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Round Up #35
Been a LONG time since my last update on the state of new nuclear technology and deployment. As I've been busy protesting the recent spate of racist cop murders and protesting the tuition hikes, this...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Roundup #36
[From Neutron Bytes, the premier new nuclear news blog. Additional links added by this daryist-DW]Where Putin travels reactors and reactions followIn a state visit to India this week Russian Premier...
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Deep Decarbonization report: high-renewable path costs 4x more than...
A new analysis by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project finds that our non-fossil energy future is economically feasible, but has widely varying costs, depending in part on the chosen technology...
View ArticleWorld Nuclear Roundup #37
[From Neutron Bytes, the premier new nuclear news blog. Additional links added by this daryist-DW]In case you were unplugged over the holiday season, here are some global nuclear news items that...
View ArticleWhat would it be like to have a war with Iran? Obscenely expensive in cash...
It would be very refreshing, and unusually intelligent if, before the U.S. goes into another war, we know what we are getting into. With even a cursory look at what might be involved in a war with Iran...
View ArticleScience Denier Bingo: A Board Game for Science Fans
Science Deniers come in all stripes. Some are right-wing, some are left-wing. Some are anti-government, some are anti-corporate. But if you look closely at all of the anti-science fringe, everyone from...
View ArticleAn Honest Question About Sanders...
During the 24 years that Bernie Sanders has been a public servant he has consistently been a voice in congress championing causes ranging from the protection of the American worker to the...
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Dawn of the Atomic Age: The First Nuclear Reactor
In December 1942, the Atomic Age began, in secret, in a racquetball court under the bleachers of an un-used football stadium in the middle of Chicago. It was here, as part of the Manhattan Project to...
View ArticleDr. James Hansen condemns Sanders'"fear mongering" on Indian Point nuclear plant
Dr. James E. Hansen, one of the world’s foremost climatologists and a leading climate activist, has strongly condemned Bernie Sander’s proposed shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New...
View ArticleMark Z. Jacobson sues the scientists who debunked him
off The Deep endIf you’ve ever heard anyone tell you that 100% renewable energy is possible and feasible, it’s almost certain that she or he got that idea from Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor at Stanford...
View ArticleDoom 4 video game nuclear power speculation
In the video game Doom (2016) -which I will further refer to as Doom 4- humanity relies on Argent Energy to power everything. It powers the cities, it (presumably) powers the industries, it even powers...
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The Case for Deploying Underwater Nuclear Reactors to Remote Exclusive...
by Marcel F. Williams Centrally mass produced underwater commercial nuclear reactors could be safely deployed to remote US territorial waters in order to provide all of America's energy, fertilizer,...
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Concerning Humanity’s Future: Interview with Nick Humphrey, Climatologist and...
I first discovered the writings of meteorologist/geoscientist Nick Humphrey with his brutally honest essay The Conversation No One Knows How To Have and since then have followed his posts and comments....
View ArticleWhy *conventional* nuclear energy cannot possibly be the solution to the...
1st premise: The solution to the climate crisis is to electrify everything, and to generate the electricity from (ideally) zero-carbon sources.[1]2nd premise: Humanity’s total power consumption is...
View ArticleArkhangelsk: Russia's top of the world explosion could have astounding...
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the explosion that took place on August 8th at a remote base concerned the propulsion system of a liquid-fuel rocket engine and no dangerous substances...
View ArticleCartoon: Fusion Energy
Fusion energy will be the best and most economical method of producing energy, once the process becomes economical, which it surely will be, eventually. The problem is: How long will "eventually"...
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To develop nuclear energy, we need a New Manhattan Project
Save our childrenIf your children were about to drown and you called to the lifeguard, "Save my children!", you wouldn't expect to have to negotiate with him. You wouldn't expect him to say, "Sorry,...
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Our Planet in Peril
IntroductionThere was a time when America considered itself to be “a city on a hill,” somehow more virtuous than, and an example to, other nations. Recently we have fallen from that pinnacle in the...
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Saudis Talking Nuclear Power Reactors with Companies from 5 nations, e.g.,...
Al-MonitorWeekly Middle-East Lobby Update: Westinghouse is among five firms in talks to build Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear power plant, with two reactors. The others are France's EDF, Russia's...
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Nature, Science, Man, and the Coronavirus
All life on planet earth exist in a bubble called the biosphere. In simple terms, the biosphere is defined as the regions below and above the surface of the earth that are inhabited by the various...
View ArticleRome Redux
For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before...
View ArticleHunger in Egypt as world wheat supply suffers Putin's war & heatwave in...
...On June 2, ration card holders were requested [by Egypt’s Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade] to obtain their bread rations on a daily basis. Those who did not pick up their rations for three...
View ArticleSpeculation: If Trump Kept Nuclear Documents, Was He Going To Sell That Info...
What was Trump doing with those stolen TS/SCI documents? I think I am fine with describing this as theft because 1) American presidents in the past haven’t brought home TS/SCI documents to “study,” as...
View ArticleESG leader Parnassus is considering investing in nuclear power companies —...
On December 1, 2022, Morningstar published an article, Sustainable Funds Powerhouse Parnassus Weighs Investing in Nuclear Energy, that began this way:In a sea change, Parnassus Investments, the...
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Putin's "Nuke Surprise" and the American CEO That's Enabling Him
By John Liccione, Candidate for US Congress in Florida’s 13th District and CEO of RussiLeaksAmerican nuclear/radiological materials shipping company CEO Jack Edlow is one or two heartbeats away from...
View ArticleProgressive Town Hall: Sunday 9/24 - Defuse Nuclear War, Decommission Nuclear...
Join us Sunday at 4pm ET/1pm PT. This week's Town Hall will focus on Nuclear Matters. First we will hear about the escalated threat of nuclear Armageddon and a week of action to oppose this madness....
View ArticleOvernight News Digest, Saturday Science, all good news, for a change
Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a...
View ArticleNuclear energy boondoggle exposed by Juice Media.
Another crafty PSA from the Australien Government aka Juice Media, using facts, figures, parody, and swearing! The Australian Liberal Party’s nuclear energy initiatives are, at the core, boondoggles...
View Article"This is a bad idea" - Meet Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old SpaceX intern...
Elon Musk’s gang of young, inexperienced Muskovites continue their unbridled rampage of federal agencies. CNN is reporting that one of these Musk lackeys, 23-year-old college dropout Luke Farritor, has...
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