Shoal of fish, or herding cats? African energy
This Obama initiative named Power Africa was riddled with unintended consequences, and launched via USAID.
Small modular reactors advance in the nuclear world
Nuclear power is the future of mankind. The world’s electricity insecurity experienced since 2020 has shown the way forward with great clarity.
Small modular reactors – designing nuclear energy for African landscapes
small nuclear reactors offer a huge amount of flexibility; and they run continuously, independent of day or night; rain or sunshine; wind or no wind.
The real lessons of Fukushima
Lesson #1: People died from forced evacuations, not radiation.
Climategate: Ten years later
Climate alarmists are still promoting junk science, fossil fuel bans and wealth redistribution
Electricity in the realm of the Lion King
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, especially Pebble Bed Modular Reactors, are Africa’s best energy future.
Nuclear scientist: HBO’s Chernobyl a lesson in sensationalism
HBO's melting faces and radioactive humans are no more realistic than the Walking Dead's zombie cannibalism. Not to be forgotten: Modern nuclear energy is clean, abundant, safe, affordable and sorely needed.
Warming radicals blind to science and history
It is evident from history that periods of global warming led to health, welfare, and prosperity. Global cooling led to crop failure, disease, and hardship. That's why radicals want history expunged.
The lesson of Fukushima — Nuclear energy is safe
An outdated design was able to take nature's toughest punch. A nuclear physicist explains why this should inspire strong confidence in current nuclear design.
Physicist: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster
Anti-nuclear activists do not want the public to know the truth. Fukushima showed that a nuclear plant can take the maximum punch of nature’s brutality. Yet the media and the anti-nukes enjoy stoking the fear.
The carbon trading money tree
When it appears easy to make a lot of money from something simple then in all probability something is wrong. The economic rules which govern the world usually dictate that it is not easy to make a lot of money with not much effort.
Alice in Wonderland science
Climate propaganda regularly demands we accept impossible science. “There's no use trying,” Alice said. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Especially with the Doha climate change confab in full swing, taxpayers, newspaper readers – and anyone dreaming of a better life through reliable, affordable energy – deserves more honest reporting and more science-based energy and environmental policies than they have been getting.
Does the UN have Africa in an emissions arm lock?
The rich kids are trying to push Africa around, bullying African countries into accepting their opinions and, even worse, adopting their “solutions.” Africa should resist the moral and psychological pressure being exerted on it to agree to binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions. Any such agreement would place African countries at the mercy of rich UN nations without any benefit accruing to Africa.
Media ignore German coal plants, tout propaganda film ‘Fuel’
It is amazing how biased the international media is when it comes to reporting on energy generation, specifically electricity. In mid-August, Germany opened a new 2200MW coal-fired power station near Cologne, and virtually not a word has been said about it. This dearth of reporting is even more surprising when one considers that Germany has said building new coal plants is necessary because electricity produced by wind and solar has turned out to be unaffordably expensive and unreliable. In a deteriorating economic situation, Germany's new environment minister, Peter Altmaier, who is as politically close to Chancellor Angela Merkel as it gets, [...]
After Rio – what next?
The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20” comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ever since 1992 I have watched the eco-evolution taking place.