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India moves ahead with an ambitious nuclear program to combat global warming
More evidence is emerging that the Nuclear Power Corp. of India (NPCIL) is planning to finance future nuclear construction through debt financing. Both local and international sources will be tapped. NPCIL plans to raise at least $6.5 billion...
If Most of What I Know Comes from Google, Why Do I Know More Than Eric Schmidt?
Eric Schmidt gets nuclear costs wrong. I am looking at a presentation that says Eric Schmidt is wrong about the relative costs of nuclear and renewables. Way, way, way wrong. This is not one of those phonied up, propaganda extravaganzas by...
The COP15 problem is not climate change skepticism, it is anti nuclear fanaticism
We are in a historic transition period between energy technologies that are clearly failing, and an as of yet uncharted new energy system. As in many moments of major historic transitions confusion reigns. The transition is a product of a double...
Alvin Weinberg, Prophet of CO2 Driven Global Warming
Alvin Weinberg greets President Kennedy during a visit by the President to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Weinberg was one of Kennedy's science advisors.Update Note: This post was one of the first I wrote for Nuclear Green in December 2007...
Indian Nuclear Cost, The Indian Oil Company Deal
More evidence is emerging that a major reason that Indian nuclear cost is so low, is that they are basically overnight costs. Indian nuclear costs, up until now appear to have been appropriated, rather than paid through borrowed money. A recent...
Nuks and the Grid: "Smart Grid" Verses Smart Grid Design
A computer simulation of a nuclear dominated grid is not nearly as urgent an issue as the computer simulation of of a renewables dominated grid. We know that reactor generated power is reliable enough that a nuclear dominated grid will be at least...
Renewables and Simulating the Post-Carbon Grid
No one knows how much a renewable post-carbon grid would cost, but renewable advocates like Greenpeace, and Rocky Mountain Institute, and the proposed Google Clean Energy 2030 plan, all seem to think it will be cheap. However it is impossible for...
Solving the World Water Problems: What McKinsey & Company does not say
McKinsey & Company, the management consultant company whose advice was so helpful to ENRON, Swiss-air, Kmart, and Global Crossing, has now published a 185 page report on current and future world water shortages. McKinsey & Company is of...
Indian AHWR300-LEU Features Revealed
A pamphlet from the Bhabha Atomic research center in Mumbai, India offers a detailed description of the AHWR300-LEU reactor now under development. The reactor will feature a complex fuel mix that will include both uranium and thorium.The...
Indian Nuclear Plans
The World Nuclear Association has published a long new account of the advances in the Indian nuclear program. Things are now moving very fast and three dozen reactors reactors are either planned or under serious consideration. Indian plans...
2025 Economic Developments in China and India, and the Future of American Solar and Wind
Brian Wang has a very interesting post based on economic projections by Rio Tinto, the international mining outfit. Rio Tinto clearly wants to know about future metal demands in the global economy. Of course this is important for Rio Tinto to know...
Alternative reduced CO2 wind back up systems
The work of Warren Katzenstein and Jay Apt, Peter Lang, and Peter Hawkins all seems to demonstrate that natural gas back up of wind generation imposes choices and inefficiencies, that almost or completely eliminates the CO2 emissions benefits of...
