Industry

Nuclear Weapons and ‘Fourth Generation’ Nuclear Power

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‘Integral fast reactors’ and other ‘fourth generation’ nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention as potential contributors to climate change abatement, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. However, nuclear power could at most make a modest contribution to climate change abatement, and all nuclear power concepts fail to address the single greatest problem with nuclear power − its repeatedly-demonstrated connection to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Comment/Learsy hearsay or what’s wrong with Raymond Learsy’s “forthright comments” on oil

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It is probable, or at least possible Learsy himself takes seriously what he claims as facts in this “trenchant” piece. Basically he asserts the IEA or International Energy Agency has been taken over by dark forces which inject the world’s media, and politicians heads with dangerous, or at least wrongheaded propaganda to drive up oil prices.

Natural Gas Scam and Folly Again

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Top Inside-the-Beltway Democrats are trying to serve up a two-decades old fiasco again: touting natural gas as the “bridge fuel” for a renewable energy utopia. Fossil Fuels Policy Action looked at this in 1988 and rejected the idea’s environmental and energy-security premise as well as its ethics. Basically, this new “agenda,” as they call it, is the same scam as the late ’80s — it had its way, ran its course, and look where we are now.

International Experts to Speak at ASPO Conference

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With our world at the convergence of peak oil and climate change, ASPO’s 2009 International Peak Oil Conference, titled System Reset: Global Energy and the New Economy, brings together experts from around the world to offer timely perspectives on the future of oil and its impact on the global economy. The event will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Denver, Colorado, October 10-13, 2009; early registration ends Friday, August 21.