Links tagged “nuclear”
- Study Finds Reducing Energy Use Increases Mortality – ‘Can kill people living right now’
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
"After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Japan gradually shut down all of its nuclear power plants, causing a countrywide power shortage...The government paid particular attention to reducing the usage of air conditioning because it is the largest contributor to residential electricity consumption in Japan."
Co-author Guojun He, the director of research at EPIC-China and an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. “But climate change is already upon us and encouraging less use of air conditioning or other means of adapting to extreme temperatures can kill people living right now."
- Nuclear & medical physicist calls for a reassessment of nuclear radiation safety: ‘Industry is still weighed down by antiquated regulations that treat radiation as particularly dangerous’
Professor Wade Allison: "Seventy years on, we know for sure that low levels of nuclear radiation are harmless. In fact there is good evidence that they are beneficial." Despite this, the nuclear industry is still weighed down by antiquated regulations that treat radiation as particularly dangerous.
- Germany to postpone closure of remaining nuclear plants as energy prices rise
- Return to ‘green’ primitivism: ‘Before the Industrial Revolution, human civilization invariably used animals & slaves as its primary source of energy’
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger: Before the Industrial Revolution, human civilization invariably used animals and slaves as its primary source of energy. Change started in the late-18th century in the United Kingdom with the discovery of mechanized spinning, steam power, and iron production. ...
Trillions have been spent on green energy over the past 20 years, notes energy entrepreneur and investor Brian Gitt, but the percentage of global power generated by fossil fuels has barely declined from 85.54 to 82.28 percent; the bulk of reductions have come from replacing coal with natural gas. ...
Despair tends to stoke fanaticism. Among young Americans, the vast majority believe they face an imminent environmental catastrophe. The student movement around Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg recalls the youthful fanaticism of the Medieval sanctus puer or “holy children” who rampaged through Europe in the 13th century, or Mao’s Red Guards unleashed during the “cultural revolution” in communist China during the 1960s.
- Germany U-turns on nuclear in scramble to avert winter crisis – as energy crisis also sparks run on coal
- State Prime Minister Declares Green Energy Transition has ‘Failed’
Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer: “The energy transition with gas as the base load has failed,” he reportedly said, with the publication noting that — even before the current gas crisis — green energy struggled to supply sufficient power in the country last winter. “As long as the federal government has not developed a new concept for the energy transition, the nuclear power plants must continue to run,” he went on to say.
In the context of the current plan to see Germany’s remaining nuclear plants shut down by January 2023, Kretschmer described the government’s decision to turn back on a coal power station as “madness”
- Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads Into Winter Refusing To Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate
- Alex Epstein’s Earth Day truth: Fossil fuels make Earth BETTER – ‘World has never been a better place for human beings to live’
Epstein: "Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more."
Fossil fuels have actually made us far safer from climate by providing low-cost energy for the amazing machines that protect us against storms, protect us against extreme temperatures, and alleviate drought. Climate disaster deaths have decreased *98%* over the last century.
Solar and wind only provide electricity (20% of energy use)—and they don't even do that well. Because solar and wind are unreliable, they don't replace reliable power plants—they add to the cost of reliable power plants.
3 billion people use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator. 1/3 of the world uses wood and dung for heating and cooking.
The world needs to continue and expand its massive use of fossil fuels, while ensuring we have the freedom necessary for truly cost-effective alternatives to emerge. E.g., we need to decriminalize reliable, non-carbon nuclear energy."
- BONKERS: The Atlantic Cries Nuclear War Is a ‘Climate Problem’
- The Atlantic: ‘On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem’ – Laments even ‘nuclear winter…would not reverse the effect’ of man-made warming
The Atlantic Staff Writer Robinson Meyer: "Even a 'minor' skirmish would wreck the planet" - "I mean this quite literally. If you are worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war. That is because, on top of killing tens of millions of people, even a relatively 'minor' exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways. ... And even though the world would get cooler, the nuclear winter resulting from a full-blown global conflict (or even 'nuclear fall,' as some researchers prefer) would not reverse the effect of what we might morbidly call 'traditional' human-caused climate change. ...
If several years of gasoline- and diesel-fueled conventional military operations followed the global destruction, then the permanent consequences for the climate system would be even worse. That would also be true if society tried to rebuild by undertaking a fossil-powered reconstruction—and that would very likely be the case."
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But wait! Which is it?! Huffington Post 2011: 'Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming?' - "Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming"
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An Inconvenient Truth for Environmentalists: Offshore Wind Endangers Whales
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Climate Hysteria & Groupthink From Billionaires Who Want Your Money To Save The World
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Bjorn Lomborg: Partisan ‘fact checkers’ spread climate-change misinformation
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European Union Approves Mealworms & Cricket Powder For Use in Bread, Crackers, Chocolate, & Soups Despite ‘Inconclusive’ Allergy Data
Europeans now also allowed to eat cricket powder and small mealworms - Earlier in January, the Commission also approved the use of small mealworms. The small mealworm may be used as (spread) paste, frozen, dried and powdered. Powdered mealworm larvae will also serve as a food supplement.
Daily Wire: Cricket powder will now be permitted in a number of food products, such as multigrain bread, crackers, cereal bars, biscuits, beer-like beverages, chocolates, sauces, whey powder, soups, and other items “intended for the general population,” according to the new regulation. Cricket One, a company that asserts that the insects are “nutritionally more efficient” and serve as a more reliable “source of alternative protein” than livestock, submitted the original application.
The New York Allergy and Sinus Centers has nevertheless found that “several allergic reactions to crickets” have been reported in the past two years. Individuals allergic to shellfish such as shrimp, crabs, and lobsters “may develop an allergy to crickets” because the species share many of the same proteins. ... Proposals for the increased consumption of crickets and other insects occur as many policymakers voice concern about the impact of meat production on climate change.
