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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

If you are an anti-masker, antivaxxer or similar, you should know that when you get sick and end up in hospital, you just might not get the level of care you’re expecting, and you might die. The people who are dying in hospital these days are mostly unvaccinated Covid-19 patients. After months of battling Covid-19, a wickedly cruel disease, medical

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,

There are 8 countries in the world that are already at or very near 100% renewables, including Scotland, which reached about 97% in 2020. California is frequently hitting 80% or more, and Germany the world’s fourth biggest economy, generated more than 46% of its power from renewables for the entire year, also in 2020. Professor Mark Jacobson is a renowned

A version of this story appeared originally in 2020 in Plumbing Engineer, the official publication of the American Society of Plumbing 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

I no longer want to discuss or write about the macro-economics of our clean energy transition. That ship has sailed. If we keep talking about various macro-economic scenarios, it has two extremely negative effects: 1. It implies that the transition itself is in question, is discretionary, is still at the ‘what if’ scenario stage. It suggests that ROI is more

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