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The Cost of Wind Energy: Part II
In Part I, we explored past and present wind costs and noted rapid inflation. This was the first step in an exploration of David Roberts' claim that renewable electricity was less expensive than nuclear generated electricity, but there are many...
The Cost of Wind Energy, Part I
I have said on numerous occasions that the inspiration for "Nuclear Green" came from David Roberts on Grist. Roberts maintained that the cost of nuclear energy was significantly higher than the cost of renewable energy. I decided to test Roberts'...
Post-Carbon Future: Nuclear Energy and Scalability
One of the myths which we have to contend with as we create the post carbon era is the myth that no single energy source will be so scalable as to be extremely helpful in solving the post carbon energy problem. The post carbon energy problem is the...
The Nuclear Green Revolution
The original title of my pro-nuclear blog was Nuclear Green. The primary interest was in Molten Salt and Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors. As I began to explore the potential of this technology, I came to see more and more possibilities. This...
New Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Proliferation.
During World War II the United States spent a large amount of money on developing nuclear technology. Much of that investment went into industrial systems designed to separate U-235 from U-238, or to transform U-238 into Pu-239. Here such systems...
Which is better for nuclear- Uranium or Thorium?
My last post focused on the uranium as a renewable resource.This seemingly radical view, is supported by well known facts. The question then is, with the renewable nature of uranium, why should we need thorium?Although uranium is virtually infintly...
More on the Denatured Molten Salt Reactor from David LeBlanc
The Denatured Molten Salt Reactor (DMSR) is probably the simplest Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) design. The DMSR concept was first proposed by T.J.Burns et al, in ORNL 5388, Interim Assessment of the Denatured 233UFuel Cycle: Feasibility and...
Can Anthropogenic Global Warming Be Non-Catastrophic?
The denial of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the latest right-wing front in its attack on climate science. Science deniers have set up a fall back strategy: Position 1: There is no evidence that Global Warming is happening.Position 2:...
Global Warming Skepticism Crumbling
During much of the last decade, LLNL researcher and University of California Physics professor Richard Muller has been something of a darling too the right-wing GW deniers. In December 2003 Muller published a column in the MIT's Technology Review,...
Underground Reactor Advantages
Underground sited. This scale was chosen so that the physical size allowed it to be factory manufactured and transported to the site,which is a significant potential cost reducer. . . .- John Rawls, Chief Scientist at General AtomicsFrom the dawn of...
Graphite Free Core?
The Generation IV international forum describes itself asa cooperative international endeavor organized to carry out the research and development (R&D) needed to establish the feasibility and performance capabilities of the next generation...
Scientists 100 Years Ago Recognized The CO2 - Climate Link
Climate change Skeptics need to look again. We have known about the CO2- climate change link for over 100 years.The work of Climate Change denier Roy Spencer has recently been demonstrated to contain large scientific errors. (see here, here, here...
