Pity the Poor Anti-PC Heretic. Not.
Sep. 29th, 2008 04:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerPoor oppressed anti-PC baby. This guy Lynas hacked me off (again). The guy reads the latest Dixy Lee Ray wannabe book and he goes straight into the ditch.
I ended up commenting (again) that the Westinghouse AP1000 can't be installed, at least in the USA, any sooner than ten years according to Westinghouse. How this is supposed to stop global warming, which has a tipping point, according to James Hansen, of less than ten years, is beyond my feeble math abilities.
To go to a non-existent fast breeder utopia (which has been flung around since the very beginning of the nuclear industry - think the partially melted EBR-I (1951) or the partially melted Fermi 1 (1957) with dramatic failures like the French Superphénix (1996) - would take even longer, if ever.
His "It is just evil" straw dog is concentrated BS. Full stop.
Mark Lynas: The Green Heretic Persecuted for His Nuclear Conversion - The Times (UK) - 28 Sep 08
"Because everyone knows that real environmentalists loathe nuclear power. It is just evil. Full stop.
Except, well, I don’t believe that any more. Just a month ago I had a Damascene conversion: the Green case against nuclear power is based largely on myth and dogma. My tipping point came when I discovered just how much nuclear power has changed since I first set my mind against it.
Prescription for the Planet[: The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises], a new book by the American writer Tom Blees, opened my eyes to fourth-generation 'fast-breeder' reactors, which use fuel much more efficiently than the old-style reactors, produce shorter-lived waste and can also be designed to be 'walk-away safe'."
I ended up commenting (again) that the Westinghouse AP1000 can't be installed, at least in the USA, any sooner than ten years according to Westinghouse. How this is supposed to stop global warming, which has a tipping point, according to James Hansen, of less than ten years, is beyond my feeble math abilities.
To go to a non-existent fast breeder utopia (which has been flung around since the very beginning of the nuclear industry - think the partially melted EBR-I (1951) or the partially melted Fermi 1 (1957) with dramatic failures like the French Superphénix (1996) - would take even longer, if ever.
His "It is just evil" straw dog is concentrated BS. Full stop.
Mark Lynas: The Green Heretic Persecuted for His Nuclear Conversion - The Times (UK) - 28 Sep 08
"Because everyone knows that real environmentalists loathe nuclear power. It is just evil. Full stop.
Except, well, I don’t believe that any more. Just a month ago I had a Damascene conversion: the Green case against nuclear power is based largely on myth and dogma. My tipping point came when I discovered just how much nuclear power has changed since I first set my mind against it.
Prescription for the Planet[: The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises], a new book by the American writer Tom Blees, opened my eyes to fourth-generation 'fast-breeder' reactors, which use fuel much more efficiently than the old-style reactors, produce shorter-lived waste and can also be designed to be 'walk-away safe'."
