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Outrage Management: Calming Nuclear Energy Fears [VIDEO]
It is high time for the communicators to get to work on reducing the outrage that causes the perceived risk of nuclear energy to remain high for the public, the government, and the investment community.[read more]
Climate, Energy, and Dangers of Fear-Mongering
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Do wind farms make you sick? Not so, according to new research out of Australia. It's more likely that “wind farm syndrome” is caused not by the turning of wind turbines, but by scaremongering about wind turbines.[read more]
The Historic Roots, and Impacts, of Our Nuclear Fear
I remember going to bed one night when I was 11, seriously afraid I would not be alive in the morning. It was October, 1962, and the frightening cold war between the U.S. and Soviet Union had becoming terrifyingly real.[read more]
WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor
I received a comment yesterday through the Atomic Insights Contact link telling me about a recently produced video titled After Fukushima: The Fear Factor. The source described the work as a report on the media frenzy in the UK following the tsunami attack on the Fukushima region of Japan. As the video describes, less...[read more]
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“It is going to take longer than 2 years to phase in any major extra supply to the grid.I'm sure in the longer term that solar, even by itself, could meet 100% of UK power. Several American company have started commercially converting sun light, water and CO2 into methanol with cyanobacterium, the methanol fuel can then be easily stored for use at 6PM on 12 of December.”
“I very much agree with you on the potential that computer driven cars afford, but I suspect they may be a slower sell here in the US. I've mentioned them to a good number of people and many react with something to the effect that they would never trust a computer to navigate their vehicle.I think the basis for this reaction is two-fold. First, they are reacting to their experience of ...”