Nuclear energy

Gen4: Safe. Clean. Green. Power.

Michael Shellenberger

"Why I changed my mind about nuclear power."

"Why renewables can't save the planet."

"How Fear of Nuclear Ends."

"This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now."

"How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment."

"A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism" (2007)

Apocalyse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (2020)

"Why Biden’s Climate Agenda Is Falling Apart — The reasons have more to do with physics than politics"

Solar requires 300-400 times more land than nuclear, demands 18 times more steel, and produces 300 times more hazardous waste.

"Why Drug Abuse, Not Climate Change, Is America’s Biggest Problem."

"Drugs killed 3,000 times more people than the climate in 2020."

"Why Everything They Said About Solar Was Wrong: Solar Panels Will Create 50 Times More Waste & Cost 4 Times More Than Predicted, New Harvard Business Review Study Finds."

"Finally, They Admit Renewables Don't Replace Fossil Fuels: Support for nuclear grows as we debunk solar and wind energy myths."

"The Reason They Fear Fire As A Violation Of Nature Is Because They’re So Alienated From It."

Why Bad Climate Legislation is Worse than No Climate Legislation

Most solar panels become hazardous waste, and create dust from heavy metals including lead, as soon as they are removed from rooftops. A major study published in Harvard Business Review earlier this year found that, when the high cost of managing toxic solar panel waste is eventually accounted for, the true cost of solar electricity will rise four-fold.

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Sunniva Rose at TEDxOslo 2013

"How bad is it really? Nuclear technology — facts and feelings."

Links

• The Breakthrough Institute
• Environmental Progress

Environmental Progress (EP) was founded to achieve two goals: lift all humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment. These goals can be achieved by mid-century — but only if we remove the obstacles to cheap, reliable and clean energy.

• Sabine Hossenfelder, "Why Bill Gates' New Natrium Reactor is a Big Deal"

It is "a sodium-cooled fast reactor combined with an energy storage system."

The energy-storage system lets the system react to surges in demand for power more rapidly than conventional reactors, which perform best when run at a steady state. Excess energy produced at times of low demand can be stored for use at later peak periods, allowing the reactor itself to stay in a steady state in the background.

"The Complete Case for Nuclear"

• Bjorn Lomborg, How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
• "U.S. DOE Advanced Nuclear Reactor Concepts"
• Alex Epstein, "Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear"
• Mothers for Nuclear

Not nuclear, but another contrarian view of the environment:

• Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.