The utter failure of renewables to deliver during the Californian heatwave appears to be creating a surge of interest in reliable energy.
Tag: Nuclear power
Green California Has the Nation’s Worst Power Grid
When high temperatures caused customer demand to exceed the power available, California electrical utilities used rotating outages to force a reduction in demand. The California grid is the worst in…
3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 11, 2020 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor…
“False Humility Will Not Save the Planet”
Guest post by David Middleton When I first saw this headline, I thought I was going to have fun ridiculing it… But once I started reading it, I realized that…
Energy-starved Africa looks to India for nuclear reactors
From live mint Updated: 18 Nov 2019, 12:55 AM IST Utpal Bhaskar climate change has affected Africa’s conventional hydropower generation capacity As demand load is low, India’s pressurized heavy water reactor of 220MW unit…
New DOE and NRC Agreement Will Lead to Faster Deployment and Licensing of U.S. Nuclear Technologies
From The Office of Nuclear Energy Office of Nuclear Energy New DOE and NRC Agreement Will Lead to Faster Deployment and Licensing of U.S. Nuclear Technologies October 16, 2019 Home…
CNN Democratic climate gabfest displays candidate’s monumental energy ignorance
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The stupendous display of global energy and emissions ignorance by the Democratic Party Presidential candidates on CNN’s climate alarmist gabfest was nothing short of astounding.…
Democrats’ Curious Disdain for Nuclear Power
From The National Review By Robert Bryce May 30, 2019 4:21 PM Climate change is the No. 1 issue for Democrats, with a recent poll showing 82 percent of Democratic…
Environmentalist Tells Tucker Carlson: Renewables Can’t Save The Planet
From The Daily Caller Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator Environmental activist Michael Shellenberger explained to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that it’s not possible to shift the country’s grid completely…
New York Times Article Conclusively Proves That Climate Change “Crisis” is 100% Politics!
Guest satire by David Middleton Protesters Jeer as Trump Team Promotes Coal at U.N. Climate Talks By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer Nov. 13, 2017 BONN, Germany — The Trump…
DOE Secretary Rick Perry: “Resiliency Pricing Rule” for Coal-fired and Nuclear Power Plants
Guest post by David Middleton DOE = United States Department of Energy FERC = Federal Energy Regulatory Commission OCT 2, 2017 Rick Perry Directs FERC To Complete Final Action On…
NASA to Test Fission Power for Future Mars Colony
By Irene Klotz, Space.com Contributor, Original Story on Space.com Here An artist’s impression of a nuclear power system, consisting of four separate fission reactors, for Mars habitats. Credit: NASA/Kilopower As…
Climate Changers Endorse Nuclear Power – Why Now?
Guest essay by Joseph Somsel Go back and re-watch Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth from 2006 and you’ll find that he never once voices the word “nuclear” although there is a…
In a new study, James Hansen pushes nuclear power as saving more lives than it has harmed
This is sure to get some enviros in a tizzy. From Chemical and Engineering News of the American Chemical Society: Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes Climate Change:…
Ralph Nader: Dems running away from Global Warming debate
This video from C-Span of Ralph Nader is a surprising admission that really says it all. No matter how much whining and wailing there is about my appearance on PBS,…
Newsbytes – the ungreening of Germany
Germany Building 17 New Coal, 29 New Gas-Fired Power Stations From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF German utilities and private investors have plans to construct or modernise some 84…
An about face by China on solar power
From John Droz’s newsletter with a hat-tip to Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. for bringing it to my attention and via the “I can hear Joe Romm’s head exploding” department and…
Oh noes! Doomsday clock 1 minute closer to midnight thanks to global warming, other concerns
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where worry about climate change gets equal time alongside their original mission; nuclear holocaust, apparently they haven’t noticed that the Fukashima incident is…
There's a reason the modern age moved on from windmills
In the UK, the CIVITAS group has just released an economic analysis of wind power. The scathing report confirms what we have been reporting for years here on WUWT: wind…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists issues 2011 FUD report
Via SAGE Publications The nuclear, biological and climate threat – 2011 reviewed In this special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, experts reflect on 2011…
Windsplode in Scotland – plus some turbines can't handle 50mph
I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants? From STV Scotland:
Andrea Rossi and the magic coffee pot reactor
I allowed Ric Werme to post a couple of entries on the E-Cat “power reactor” by Andrea Rossi in the past, mainly to spur debate on whether this idea had…
Wow, Lynas tells it like it is.
This is in the UK Daily mail today, and it’s like sacrilege to the greens to have one of ther own say this:
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