By P Gosselin on 8. September 2011
Marc Morano here recently made what ought to be an obvious point: It’s immoral not to use fossil fuels, which are cheap and plentifully at our disposal. Today they can be burned more cleanly and efficiently than ever. Moreover, the science shows that they don’t have a significant impact on climate.To solve the poverty that still […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. August 2011
A recently released BP report here shows that global coal consumption has risen over the last 10 years by almost 50%. So wouldn’t you think that all those millions of tons of emitted CO2 (food for plants) as a result would drive the global temperatures up? Have temperatures risen along with all that extra coal burning? No they […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 1. June 2011
The Voice Of Russia website has an interview with John Ritch, Director General of the World Nuclear Association, based in London, UK. The interview starts as follows: What kind of consequences could the decision by the German government have, both in political and economical aspects? Well, let us return to the basics of what has […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 30. May 2011
Germany will completely abandon nuclear energy and technology by 2022, this decided by Angela Merkel’s government. Merkel and German activist leaders think they can competitively power the country with windmills, biogas, solar, and blind faith. The last nuclear reactors so will go offline by the year 2022. Read here.China, seeing a golden opportunity, aims to capitalise on Merkel’s […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 5. April 2011
All them windmills littering the landscape and the acres of solar panels mounted on roofs here in cloudy Germany are doing nothing to reduce energy dependency, and are unable to take up the slack left by the panicked Merkel-ordered nuclear power plant shutdowns in Germany. In fact, before the Merkel government shut down 7 of Germany’s nuclear […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 1. April 2011
That’s the headline at the online Die Welt. This according to former German Green Party member Rezzo Schlauch. And when a Green party member says that, you know it’s going to be really costly – especially for the German state of Baden Württemberg, where the Greens swept into power in last Sunday’s state elections and are set […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2011
The Fukushima nuclear reactor crisis has provided anti-nuclear activists with an assortment of (unsubstantiated) scare stories for turning the tide of public opinion against nuclear energy. So it’s little wonder that few places have been so gripped by hysteria as Germany, home to a large number of eco-stalinists and chronic doomsayers in the media. German […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 24. March 2011
Steffen Hentrich of the German liberal institute presents a comparison of the safety of various sources of energy. Much of the media, many politicians and a host of activists have all told us that nuclear energy is too dangerous to be used by man. Is this claim founded on solid data and facts, or is it run-away […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2011
As usual, there have been more horror reports in the media today about the Fukushima crisis in the German media. German Zettels Raum blog brings us back to reality today. Leading the way with the horror stories was Der Spiegel, which had the headline here at its online site: Increased Radioactivity – Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima completely evacuated”. So […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2011
It’s up, up and away! The prices that is. The UK Daily Mail reports today that inflation has reached the highest level in 20 years. Price increases have been fuelled primarily by an increase in VAT from 17.5% to 20%, and spiralling energy prices. The Mail writes: For millions, the biggest battle is finding the money […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 22. March 2011
We have to keep repeating this because the irresponsible media keeps distorting everything. Zettels Raum brings the latest update here. So far every single one of his reports has been spot on. Here are the latest main points: Works on the nuclear power plant have made amazing progress. One can say with high probability that no big accident will […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2011
In none of the reactors are there processes where there is a danger of something going out of control. The nuclear catastrophe is not taking place.” That’s quoting Zettels Raum blog description of the deescalating situation at the Fukushima Diichi facility. Zettels Raum blog has been monitoring the Fukushima incident since the start, and reports on the […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
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