Tag Archives: Nuclear

BraveNewClimate – A critical look at renewables

Not sure if this guy is a nut or not. He is certainly very pro nuclear. I would like to spend some time going through his arguments and comparing with people I respect such as Mark Diesendorf.
BraveNewClimate.

Energy Science

This website dispels many of the myths around renewable energy and the nuclear industry
Energy Science.

What are your thoughts on nuclear power as a base load power supply? Discussion.

What are your thoughts on nuclear power as a base load power supply? Any better alternatives? Check-out: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/12/nuclear_qa
Former ‘No Nukes’ Protester: Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
By John Borland 12.07.07 | 12:00 AM
Gwyneth Cravens argues for the environmental benefits of nuclear energy in her new book, Power to Save the World: The [...]

Nuke power ‘won’t curb global warming’

An interesting article on how just Nuclear power cant be the solution to global warming. Eventhough the assumptions of the report are yet to be analyzed, the facts are pretty interesting. The last few lines made absolute sense to me!!!!
“By promoting the commercial production and use of plutonium, the Bush administration is facilitating the spread [...]

Government ‘has already signed’ nuke pact

While there is significant talk to put brakes on the Fossil fuel industry and the associated mining industry, the Gov just seems to be pressing hard on the accelerator….Carrying forward on the Artic-ice discussion…I guess we need a social-political-technical revolution..!!!! Any fancy names for the revolution people???
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22438686-5005080,00.html

Labor launches nuclear website

Whom are you voting for ???? Here, they promise a bright future…!!!!!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22502698-29277,00.html

Climate Change and the Nuclear Option

From ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live:
In his Quarterly Essay Ian Lowe, one of Australia’s leading commentators on science and the environment, writes: “Promoting nuclear power as the solution to climate change is like advocating smoking as a cure for obesity. That is, taking up the nuclear option will make it much more difficult to [...]

Nuclear Fusion

A half baked article I wrote about Nuclear Fusion a while ago. Some aspects of it are vague for the simple reason that I am not a Nuclear physicist. Please feel free to jump in and point out any errors you spot or indeed to expand on anything I have glossed over.
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I’ll start with a [...]