nuclear power

Organization Trends
The Clueless Climate Hypocrisy of the League of Women Voters
Two Saturdays ago the League of Women Voters of Richfield, Minnesota, promoted voodoo science to its community. A critical fact missing from this story was the league's opposition to nuclear…
by Ken Braun on November 29, 2021

Green Watch
Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful
The Africa branch of Climate Reality Project issued a report in November 2016 condemning nuclear energy as “bad for the environment,” suggesting instead that the often desperately poor people of…
by Ken Braun on August 18, 2021

Green Watch
America’s Frozen Future Under the Green New Deal
Germany, the land of coal, and oil-rich Texas are in the process of exchanging their coal power plants—powered by a abundant, scalable, and relatively cheap resource—for expensive and unreliable renewables…
by Hayden Ludwig, Jon Rodeback on February 22, 2021

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Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Apocalypse Never
Sometime during the last eight years Oliver Stone seems to have lost his faith in angry, self-aware hurricanes and the other end-times prophecies of the environmental left. In place of…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021

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Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: “Environmental Colonialism”
Shellenberger fully covers the tedious renewable energy reliability trap. The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, we’re laughably far away from the battery potential needed to store…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021

Green Watch
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Nuking a Reasonable Compromise
Shellenberger notes that “a single Coke can of uranium can provide enough energy for an entire high-energy life.” The book’s advocacy of nuclear energy is arguably its most important and…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021

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Doom List – Listing the Worst Prophecies of Environmental Catastrophe, Part Seven: Nuclear Power’s China Syndrome
At GreenWatch we now have archived an interactive list of the “worst environmental prophecies of catastrophic doom.” It is a list of eleven of the most interesting and…
by James Dellinger on October 9, 2008