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Veteran nuclear scientist explains the history of nuclear plants in France: “Nuclear energy is dangerous, and so are those who deal with it.” https://reporterre.net/Le-nucleaire-est-dangereux-et-ceux-qui-s-en-occupent-tout-autant English version: “Nuclear energy is dangerous, and so are those who deal with it” State ”  undermined from within  “, ”  betrayal  ” of the PS … Bernard Laponche spent almost his entire life fighting against the atom. Pillar of the antinuclear, he

Summary of open letter from Arnold Gundersen to Bill Gates Bill Gates is proposing to build a sodium-cooled Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in Wyoming. Nuclear expert Arnold Gundersen has written an open letter detailing why it’s a very bad idea. Below are some highlights. Anything in quotation marks is a direct quote from Gundersen’s letter. The full text of Gundersen’s

Climate scientist Michael Mann’s book THE NEW CLIMATE WAR chronicles the destruction of our planet, driven by the insatiable greed of shortsighted billionaires and powered by dirty politics and corrupt back room deals. Mann’s climate war theme is only too real for energy consultant Bob Wyman in New York State, and HRAI executive Martin Luymes in the Province of Ontario,

UPDATE 2023 Many of the electric fleets mentioned below are now larger, and New York continues to increase its ambitions with electrifying buildings too. ____________ FROM 2021 A version of this story appeared originally in the journal Open Access Government in the UK. “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” sang Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli in

UPDATE 2023 Professor Jacobson’s Stanford group has now calculated the total cost of the global shift to 100% renewables, the returns on the investment we are making, and the payback. It’s incredibly fast! — because renewables are efficient and relatively inexpensive, and because climate change damages are piling up, with losses inceasingly uninsurable . The details are found in a

A version of this story appeared originally in 2020 in PHCP Pros, and also the official publication of ASPE for engineers. Texas’ Whisper Valley is a living laboratory to help progressive companies plan production-scale housing projects for a different kind of world. Pssst! Want to know a secret? It’s not going to be that hard to construct clean energy homes

In early 2019 I met California Fire Captain John Gaddie in some of the hardest hit parts of Paradise, but really most parts of Paradise are the ‘hardest hit,’ because the town is now just rubble. There were 85 fatalities during the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, Magalia, Butte Creek Canyon and Concow. He swallowed a lump in his throat

The Mueller community in Austin, Texas Some freak weather of the kind becoming common due to climate change occurred recently in the USA. Snow, ice and cold, all the way down to Texas, where the electricity system failed, and most of the publicity was centered. Clean energy was immediately blamed by gas and nuclear lobbyists and the compromised politicians that

Needless to say Trump is finished. Most of us should stop wasting our precious time talking about what to do with him. Let his political enemies in both major parties and several Attorneys General clean up those details. We must turn our attention to items that are perhaps less media sensational, but far more important for all of us. Let’s

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