“The siren song of inexpensive nuclear power continues into its seventh decade. Taxpayer and ratepayers beware.”
Commercial nuclear power has turned into the welfare energy de jure. It is politically correct despite many decades of failure to compete against other forms of thermal energy. Uranium might be the ultimate energy density-wise, but nuclear fission (and more so nuclear fusion) is the most complicated, expensive, fraught way to boil water.
Commercial nuclear power was government-created in the 1950s and remains government dependent today. (Stay tuned: my primer on the history of this energy source is forthcoming. [1]). Regarding the present, consider this example from Jamie Smyth, editor of US Energy, who wrote:
… Continue ReadingNuclear technology company Oklo has no revenues, no licence to operate reactors and no binding contracts to supply power.
“… far too many climate scientists have tilted toward or surrendered to exaggeration and hyperbole, making false predictions along the way. Little wonder why the general public has climate fatigue.”
Bill Gates has joined the reset of the climate agenda heading into COP30, scheduled to begin next week in Belém, Brazil. Gates will not be there; neither will Trump nor anyone from the federal government in their official capacity.
Instead of alarmism, immediate relief from extreme weather and adaptation are the order of the day (see here). COP activists might not realize it yet, but the multi-decade push for mitigation has peaked. Fossil fuels won despite the best (worst?) efforts of governments around the world to prop up inferior energies, the dilute, intermittent, fragile kind.
What is a climate alarmist to do?…
Continue Reading“What many don’t realize is that the green agenda was never about saving the planet, it was about making money and reducing competition by increasing barriers for other companies to try to compete with them in the first place.” (Thomas Marihart, below)
“Another climate commitment quietly bites the dust,” complained Ben Hardman on social media. He continued:
… Continue ReadingRemember when Google was one of the good guys? Yeah, me too. Shame it can’t be said anymore. Google has stealthily deleted their 2030 net zero pledge from their website. Gone. See ya later.
This is the same company that once proudly displayed “carbon neutral since 2007” on their homepage (ok, all done through buying carbon offsets, but we’ll park that for now). Now their footer spot has been replaced with “Applying AI towards science and the environment.”