Let’s start the day traditionally with more tales of green disaster: the first is about how one of the very first projects approved under the Kyoto carbon-trading scheme is rubbish; and the second is about how nuclear energy won’t be the greenish solution to our energy problems in the future. Depressing, huh?
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What really depresses me is that few of those publically commenting on our energy situation here in the US have ever worked at an actual power plant putting electricity on the grid. (This includes many government and industry types, as well as activists.)
Even more to the point, very few Americans understand how power generation is done and what the tradeoffs are for each type of energy supply. It’s hard to make good decisions about your energy future if you don’t understand your energy present.
If you would like to read an entertaining account from inside the US nuclear power industry, see my novel “Rad Decision” at http://RadDecision.blogspot.com.
“I’d like to see Rad Decision widely read.” – Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog.
There are many other reader reviews of “Rad Decision” in the homepage comments, and they are almost universally postive.
Regards,
James Aach (20+ years in the nuclear industry, but unsure what we should do next.)
PS. If you wonder sometimes about public education on energy matters, you might also find my essay at http://www.LabLit.com to be interesting.