Or you could be sitting next to scientist and Gaia theorist James Lovelock, a supporter of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy™, which quotes him saying, “We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available, energy source—now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.”
If you sit next to Lovelock, you might start by mentioning that half the farms in this country had windmills before Marie Curie figured out anything about radiation or Lise Meitner surmised that atoms could be split. Wind power is not visionary in the sense of experimental. Neither is solar, which is already widely used. Nor are nukes safe, and they take far too long to build to be considered readily available. Yet Stewart Brand, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, has jumped on the nuclear bandwagon, and so has Greenpeace founding member turned PR flack Patrick Moore. So you must be prepared.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/316
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Published on Thursday, June 2, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
Nukes-Against-Global Warming Strategy Scored as Too Costly
by Stephen Leahy
The Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit energy research organization, has calculated that improvements in energy efficiency are six times more cost effective than nuclear power and eliminate the need for all existing nuclear plants and any future ones.
''All of this could be done without any changes to our way of life,'' said Hoffman.
Why the push for nuclear power? In Hoffman's view, because ''the nuclear industry are major donors to Bush Republicans and have a direct channel to power in Washington.''
© Copyright 2005 IPS - Inter Press Service
http://www.eroei.com/articles/2005_articles/_nukes-against-global_warming_strategy/
from Reuters:
Japan quake sends tremors across nuclear industry
By Barbara Lewis and Peter Dinkloh - Analysis
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Japanese earthquake that forced the closure of the world's biggest nuclear plant has highlighted the energy source's dangers, just when support had been growing.
Worries about security of energy supply and the urgency of fighting climate change had helped to overcome years of opposition to nuclear power after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Generating nuclear power does not produce any of the carbon emissions blamed for warming the planet.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2489828520070724
