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Investment Bankers Versus Engineers as Decision Makers - Response to Jerry Taylor of Cato Institute

April 14, 2010 by Rod Adams
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On April 9, 2010, Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute paid me the compliment of responding to a post that I labeled as a "smoking gun". I gave the post that label since it provided an example of a man with evident ties to the fossil fuel industry working to discourage the use of nuclear energy. His post was published on MasterResource: a... [read more]

An Energy Collective Discussion: Overcoming Hurdles to Nuclear Power in the United States

November 30, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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[Update, 12/2/2009: Thanks to everyone who joined into this insightful discussion below. The Energy Collective readership and community is certainly a wealth of knowledge and perspectives and this experiment seems to have been a success.  I've updated the post below to summarize and excerpt responses from the many commenters,... [read more]

The nuclear option: too slow, too costly

November 19, 2009 by Big Gav
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Crikey's Bernard Keane has given up covering the CPRS but he does still have the energy to consider the nuclear power industry's long, painful attempt to maintain some relevance by claiming it is a solution to climate change - The nuclear option: too slow, too costly.The spruikers for nuclear energy never say die. Climate change has... [read more]