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Of Course You Know, This Means War
Sep. 17th, 2008 09:54 amAs readers may have noted, I've been at war with nuclear for sometime now. Not that they've probably noticed.
The latest bailout of AIG once again indicates how when it comes to big risk items, the free market mantra doesn't work. Likewise for new nuclear.
If we're going that way in the USA, why not just do it like France does. Have a largely state-owned business do the mucking about and avoid the charade of market forces having anything to do with the decision to go nuclear.
Wind and Nuclear Go to War Over Power Cut Threats [in the UK] - BusinessGreen - 17 Sep 08
"The report from energy industry analysts Fells Associates argues that with a third of the UK's generation capacity due to be decommissioned by 2020 as nuclear and fossil fuel power stations are retired, prolonged power cuts could become a common occurrence from 2013."
"But speaking to reporters earlier today, report co-author professor Ian Fells, a long term supporter of nuclear power, said that the planned expansion of wind energy could not be delivered quickly enough to plug the gap, while the long-promised expansion in nuclear capacity was also not being built at sufficient pace.
The report, titled A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK, argued that the only way to plug the energy gap in the short term is to extend the life of fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, while accelerating the development of a new fleet of nuclear reactors to work alongside increased renewables capacity. It claimed that the need to secure energy supplies was now so urgent that it should take priority over climate change in the government's energy strategy."
"Greenpeace chief scientist Doug Parr said the report meant that Fells had 'finally lost the backing of the scientific community', adding that it showed a disregard for the extent to which other countries were fast embracing renewables to address their energy gaps.
'All over the world, jobs are being created in the renewable energy sector,' he said. 'But Britain has been left behind for too long by the negative, white flag approach to climate change that this report represents. Professor Fells has a long-standing love affair with the technologies of the 20th Century, but as time goes by his fetish for coal and nuclear power looks increasingly naive.'"
The latest bailout of AIG once again indicates how when it comes to big risk items, the free market mantra doesn't work. Likewise for new nuclear.
If we're going that way in the USA, why not just do it like France does. Have a largely state-owned business do the mucking about and avoid the charade of market forces having anything to do with the decision to go nuclear.
Wind and Nuclear Go to War Over Power Cut Threats [in the UK] - BusinessGreen - 17 Sep 08
"The report from energy industry analysts Fells Associates argues that with a third of the UK's generation capacity due to be decommissioned by 2020 as nuclear and fossil fuel power stations are retired, prolonged power cuts could become a common occurrence from 2013."
"But speaking to reporters earlier today, report co-author professor Ian Fells, a long term supporter of nuclear power, said that the planned expansion of wind energy could not be delivered quickly enough to plug the gap, while the long-promised expansion in nuclear capacity was also not being built at sufficient pace.
The report, titled A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK, argued that the only way to plug the energy gap in the short term is to extend the life of fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, while accelerating the development of a new fleet of nuclear reactors to work alongside increased renewables capacity. It claimed that the need to secure energy supplies was now so urgent that it should take priority over climate change in the government's energy strategy."
"Greenpeace chief scientist Doug Parr said the report meant that Fells had 'finally lost the backing of the scientific community', adding that it showed a disregard for the extent to which other countries were fast embracing renewables to address their energy gaps.
'All over the world, jobs are being created in the renewable energy sector,' he said. 'But Britain has been left behind for too long by the negative, white flag approach to climate change that this report represents. Professor Fells has a long-standing love affair with the technologies of the 20th Century, but as time goes by his fetish for coal and nuclear power looks increasingly naive.'"
