Inspirational “clean coal” commercial
I hope this helps you get pumped up to work to improve the American economy and restore American power.I admit it, I am feeling a little sarcastic this morning. Perhaps a better word would be jealous –...
View ArticleCombine domestic coal with nuclear energy to make oil
As a South Central Virginia resident, I have something in common with the people in the Pacific Northwest who are concerned about the impact of coal exports from the US. Numerous coal laden trains pass...
View ArticleMonth long quest to convince a fossil fuel advocate to believe climate change
I just spent a fascinating couple of hours watching an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) documentary titled I Can Change Your Mind About..Climate.Aside: Before that turns you off by making you...
View ArticleDeconstructing Coal Industry Misinformation Campaign
A good friend sent me a link to an article by Brian Dockstader titled The Coal Industry Wants You In The Dark that does a reasonably good job of deconstructing the messages in the following 30 second...
View ArticleThe Establishment Wants Us All To Overreact To Fukushima
A recurring theme on Atomic Insights is that nuclear energy is a disruptive technology that has the potential to reshuffle the wealth and power underpinning what my generation called “The...
View ArticleCoal ash needs proper regulation and enforcement
Occasionally I run into people who are opposed to nuclear who tell me that they fight it because we do not need the power. They forget that about 35-50% of the electricity in the United States comes...
View ArticleNuclear Up, Coal Down – Bruce Power tells it like it is in 30 seconds
Now this is the kind of messaging I keep trying to tell my colleagues that the nuclear industry should be unashamedly sharing.I could not care less if it happens to offend some dirt burners.As the ad...
View ArticleCoal down, nuclear up – punchy ads from Bruce Power
Warning – these ads from Bruce Power might offend those who make their living by selling coal, financing coal, transporting coal, burning coal, mining coal, or selling systems that attempt to make coal...
View ArticleVisual – How much material does it take to run a 3,600 MWe coal plant
Utility companies that operate both coal and nuclear power plants rarely use the important communications techniques of comparison and contrast to help people understand the benefits of nuclear energy....
View ArticleDoes nuclear energy need to do it all?
At The Energy Collective, there is an active comment thread on a post titled Is Bill McKibben Really Serious About Climate Change? that has been sustained since March 8, 2013.Recently there was a...
View ArticleDieter Helm – Nuclear saga cannot go on (Leaders must push to a happy ending)
Dieter Helm has generously shared an April 2013 article written for Prospect Magazine titled Stumbling towards crisis. In that article Helm points to US energy decision making as a good example that...
View ArticleOn Germany, coal and carbon
By Paul Lorenzini Germany’s nuclear phase-out has an obvious and unavoidable consequence: they will burn more fossil fuels and emit more carbon. They may succeed in lowering carbon emissions using some...
View ArticleSmoking gun: AEC told President Kennedy why coal industry was opposed to...
It’s been quite a while since my last smoking gun post on Atomic Insights. It may be time to revive the series to remind nuclear energy advocates to follow the money and know their opponents. In the...
View ArticleSmoking gun – Antinuclear talking points coined by coal interests
Some of the earliest documented instances of opposition to the development of commercial nuclear power in the United States originated from designated representatives of the coal industry. They were...
View ArticleSmoking Gun – NCPC & John F. Kennedy
There is a folder in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum titled National Coal Policy Conference that documents an apparently successful effort to influence a rising political star to...
View ArticleInside a German Lignite Mine
The BBC made a visit to a German lignite (brown coal) mine. I’d like the people who favor the EnergieWende to explain how they can like this energy source better than nuclear power. The post Inside a...
View Article60 Minutes on coal ash – muted outrage, lots of smiles and nods
On December 7, 2014, 60 Minutes, the venerable investigative reporting television show that has been on the air since 1968, aired a segment about Duke Energy’s Dan River coal ash spill, which occurred...
View ArticleBlast from the past from a “clean coal” advocate – Amory Lovins
One of the great ironies in today’s America is that a two time college drop out and Friends of the Earth campaigner who strongly advocated for increasing coal use is often held up as a hero of the...
View ArticleTrump’s Energy Policy Is Scary To Multinational Petroleum Interests
Trump’s plan for American energy strength is rightfully causing angst among people who believe that renewable energy is the inevitable path forward to reduce society’s dependence on fossil fuel. It is...
View ArticleA Path from Coal to Nuclear is Being Blazed in Wyoming
Many of those who care about finding solutions to the physical distress that our climate is experiencing, as reported on this week in a landmark 1,300 page report by the IPCC‘s Sixth Assessment...
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