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Lithium-Based Nuclear Reactors?
By way of Phronesisaical, this story about a lithium-based nuclear reactor sounds too good to be true: Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power...
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Is Thorium an Answer to Global Warming?
It’s always seemed to me that nuclear power would have to be part of the solution of the global warming problem: even if the planet’s population were to remain constant, and even if planet-wide energy...
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More on Thorium-Based Nuclear Power
I’ve written about the need and potential of thorium-based nuclear power: It’s always seemed to me that nuclear power would have to be part of the solution of the global warming problem: even if the...
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A Defense of Nuclear Power As a Second Best Option
In light of the nuclear power plant partial meltdowns in Japan, there are calls for not expanding the U.S. nuclear power plant capacity, and even shutting down existing plants. What bothers me about...
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Fox News Confuses Potential Nuclear Meltdown with Disco Inferno
I’m starting to think that Fox News’ primary function isn’t catapulting conservative propaganda, but Will Rogers-esque comedy: One name seems out of place on the graphic [of Japan's nuclear power...
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Some Thoughts About the WWF Energy Study, Nuclear Power, and Urbanization
By way of Digby, we come across this proposal of how to reach 95% percent renewable energy by 2050. Before I get to some of the issue I have with the study (which is actually pretty good), I want to...
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What Is Really Required to Move to a Renewable Energy Future: The Lance...
A while ago, I raised the problem–an inconvenient truth, if you will–that moving to a renewable energy future is going to be difficult: My impression reading a lot of commentary about renewable energy...
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Japan Now Has to Create a Third-Best Option for Energy Generation
I’ve described nuclear power as the second-best option. Just to be clear, I don’t like nuclear power, but, in my opinion, decommissioning nuclear power plants should be the last step on the path to...
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Campbell’s Law Goes Nukular
“The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to...
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Yes, We Can See Evolution
So Eduardo Porter wrote an article, in which he dabbled in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, arguing Dirty Fucking Hippies are wrong to oppose nuclear power. For the record, I think coal and natural gas...
View ArticleWhen Il Trumpe’s Narcissism Hurts Foreign Policy
While I don’t think Il Trumpe’s narcissism accounts for everything–or many things–that is wrong with this administration, every so often it does rear its head in really ugly ways. For instance, our...
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