“By aligning DOE resources, industry expertise, and regulatory reforms, UPRISE will lead to significant increases in the nation’s nuclear energy capacity….” (U.S. Department of Energy press release)
Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE) is the latest more-government federal initiative. UPRISE joins federal R&D, the Price Anderson Act, the Production Tax Credit, and other preferences–versus the micromanagement, overregulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
UPRISE is described by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as follows:
Nuclear energy plays a vital role in ensuring America’s energy security and achieving energy dominance. With rising national energy demands, UPRISE builds on the U.S. Department of Energy’s commitment to leveraging nuclear power as a cornerstone of energy independence and security. By focusing on solutions available today and immediate opportunities for nuclear energy capacity expansion, UPRISE aims to deliver immediate results that align with national energy priorities. …
Continue Reading“A growing body of research illustrates that the effects of utility-scale wind energy production can be far reaching and some times have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity. Furthermore, achieving renewable energy targets will require converting large areas of land to support wind power . . . often located in remote and high-biodiversity areas.” (- Nature Reviews Biodiversity, below)
MasterResource has long given voice to the ecological problems of industrial wind power, onshore and offshore, including:
Wind vs. Ecology in Australia (Nick Cater reports) (October 18, 2024)
Industrial Wind vs. Deep Ecology: Surface Impacts (January 16, 2024)
Industrial Wind Plants: Bad Economics, Bad Ecology (Jon Boone: October 24, 2009)
Vineyard Wind: Catastrophic Failure (‘sharp fiberglass shards’ close Nantucket beaches) (July 18, 2024)
Offshore Wind: Ecologists Tip-Toe into the Negatives (August 23, 2022)
Wind Turbines and Birds: Latest from the American Bird Conservancy (June 14, 2021)
Add to the literature an article recently published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity, “Impacts of Onshore Wind Energy Production on Biodiversity” (September 8, 2025).…
Continue Reading“Let the record show a rational voice responding to irrational, emotive, magical thinkers. Ken Brook, take a bow for history.”
The critics of climate alarm and forced energy transformation are winning on social media also. A recent example is a response to a post by David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, who tried to take the moral high ground against fossil fuels. But one energy realist, Ken Brook, was right there with an effective rebuttal.
Ritter wrote:
… Continue ReadingThe mental gymnastics on display by the gas industry and their pals in politics deserves an Olympic medal. Responding to our bold action at yesterday’s Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference, the likes of Minerals Council of Australia chief Tania Constable and Nationals Leader Matt Canavan are doubling down on fossil fuel extraction as the solution.