tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post8326166064199433751..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: The Soft Road to Copenhagen: Bridges to Nowhere, Path to FailureCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-64367684072830108792009-10-07T13:39:08.100-05:002009-10-07T13:39:08.100-05:00Charles, I just saw this awesome example of sockpu...Charles, I just saw this awesome example of sockpuppetry on treehugger:<br />http://www.treehugger.com/files/<br />2009/10/nuclear-power-climate-fix-folly.php?dcitc=th_rss<br /><br />Wouldn't want you to miss a chance to go toe-to-toe with RMI, and I'm sure you'll do a better job than I would.Duncannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-34365129014235617472009-10-06T23:33:46.947-05:002009-10-06T23:33:46.947-05:00North Coast,
Here's a free on-line book I reco...North Coast,<br />Here's a free on-line book I recommend: The Nuclear Energy Option, by Bernard Cohen. http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/ <br /><br />It's not exactly light reading, which I believe is a good thing, since facts that are dumbed down tends to be indistiguishable from fiction.<br /><br />Charles:<br />Thanks for another good post. Reading about Lovins' early wrong-headedness makes it easier to understand his present wrong-headedness.Nathan2gohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06027370395249364154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-52012149048544751432009-10-06T13:13:51.343-05:002009-10-06T13:13:51.343-05:00The designations "hard" and "soft&q...The designations "hard" and "soft" have been employed to great advantage to sway an emotional and uninformed public in favor of inefficient and unworkable solar, wind, and geothermal. <br /><br />Well, a little bit of cursory searching and reading makes it pretty obvious that there is no "soft" way to produce the energy we need. All forms of energy production have steep price tags attached, whether in capital costs or in environmental consequences, and the the term "soft" has kept people from recognizing the steep environmental costs of solar, wind, and geothermal. <br /><br />Trouble is, people are very uninformed and most of the people we need to reach, will never find the information they need, or be able to make sense of it even if they did. Nuclear just does not have enough promotion.<br /><br />What's needed is for someone to produce a well-written, catchy book. The posts on this blog and a couple of others put together would make a great, readable book. Make the book available either in paperback or by a cheap PDF download. Then email every politician at the state and local level with an ad for the book. <br /><br />But you would have to dumb it down a bit. Get yourself an editor who can help you "simplify" it, maybe "dumb" it down to 6th grade level reading skill, so that even a state legislator or a Chicago mayor can understand it.The North Coasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292115710427172625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-40544009887608943232009-10-06T11:37:18.011-05:002009-10-06T11:37:18.011-05:00Even though I agree there is a lot of waste in ene...Even though I agree there is a lot of waste in energy use, Lovin’s utopian mentality and forecasts just show how brain dead he was in his predictions. This guy would be far better religious preacher for the weak minded. When it comes to energy expertise, too many of his “Soft” brain cells were at play.Atomic Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873845715321111676noreply@blogger.com