Lovins on Nuclear - Three Decades Worth

I was just thinking about re-reading Lovin's classic "Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace", written in the 1970s, to see how well it holds up. I'm thinking probably pretty well. He's gone a bit libertarian in his old age but I suppose that helps when wanting to get corporate consulting gigs from conservative type CEOs and such.

His latest response to the menace of nuclear power. His segment is in the second half of the show. (43rd minute)

Amory Lovins: Expanding Nuclear Power Makes Climate Change Worse - Democracy Now! - 16 Jul 08

Lovins notes that Moody's is claiming that new nukes will run $7,500 per kW installed which is multiples of what the industry has been saying. The cost of power from such plants would be around 15 cents per kWh. He also notes that nukes are three times as expensive as wind which is why wind installations are booming while the nuclear "renaissance" is still long on hype and short on projects.

Lovins on Nuclear - Three Decades Worth

I was just thinking about re-reading Lovin's classic "Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace", written in the 1970s, to see how well it holds up. I'm thinking probably pretty well. He's gone a bit libertarian in his old age but I suppose that helps when wanting to get corporate consulting gigs from conservative type CEOs and such.

His latest response to the menace of nuclear power. His segment is in the second half of the show. (43rd minute)

Amory Lovins: Expanding Nuclear Power Makes Climate Change Worse - Democracy Now! - 16 Jul 08

Lovins notes that Moody's is claiming that new nukes will run $7,500 per kW installed which is multiples of what the industry has been saying. The cost of power from such plants would be around 15 cents per kWh. He also notes that nukes are three times as expensive as wind which is why wind installations are booming while the nuclear "renaissance" is still long on hype and short on projects.

Merkel's Atomic Bomb

Looks like the German Greens are nichts-ing the enthusiastic nuclear promoting Chanceller Merkel.

Merkel's Atomic Appeal Turns Off Greens, Party Candidates Say - Bloomberg - 16 Jul 08

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel's zeal for nuclear power rules out any prospects for a coalition between her Christian Democratic Union and the Green Party after next year's national election, senior Green Party members said.

'Merkel's party looks more and more like the parliamentary lobby for the nuclear industry,'' Cem Oezdemir, one of two candidates vying to be elected co-chairman of the Green Party at a Nov. 14-16 convention, said today in an interview. ``We don't even need to think about an alliance under such circumstances.'

Germany is committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2021 under an agreement forged by the previous government of Social Democrats and Greens.

Merkel's Atomic Bomb

Looks like the German Greens are nichts-ing the enthusiastic nuclear promoting Chanceller Merkel.

Merkel's Atomic Appeal Turns Off Greens, Party Candidates Say - Bloomberg - 16 Jul 08

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel's zeal for nuclear power rules out any prospects for a coalition between her Christian Democratic Union and the Green Party after next year's national election, senior Green Party members said.

'Merkel's party looks more and more like the parliamentary lobby for the nuclear industry,'' Cem Oezdemir, one of two candidates vying to be elected co-chairman of the Green Party at a Nov. 14-16 convention, said today in an interview. ``We don't even need to think about an alliance under such circumstances.'

Germany is committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2021 under an agreement forged by the previous government of Social Democrats and Greens.