Current Nuclear News Items

CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS

ALTERNATIVE POWER GENERATION

from 2003

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11-29-06	WAFF 48 News	TVA plans to buy gas-fired power plant It is diversifying
11-06-06	Florida Times Union	Regulators consider electric utility fuel costs Fuel cost projections differ dramatically depending on a company's fuel mix, with oil and gas being more expensive, coal costs increasing, and nuclear power generally cheaper to generate.
10-16-06	The Sydney Herald	Dirty coal still king That’s just plane reality unfortunately.
9-8-06	Stuff.co.nz	NZ may need to go nuclear in electricity - Genesis Without power nations can only look forward to a third-world future.
9-2-06	Caledonian-Record	Governor Douglas of Vermont Declares Big Wind Not Worth It Rational government.
8-23-06	Business Week	Energy Not Quite as Free as the Wind A realistic report
8-23-06	Aftenposten	Crushing bills feared Prices go up when nuclear power is not available.
8-23-06	Bloomberg	German power prices up as wind wanes; Nordic power climb 18,000 windmills! So much for scenery and the good life.
8-14-06	Bloomberg	Oil, Gasoline Decline on BP's Alaska Output, Lebanon Cease-Fire It doesn’t take much to make oil and gas either unavailable or too costly.
8-14-06	The Engineer online	New source of hydrogen If it cannot be done at nuclear plants what chance have solar and wind facilities have?
8-8-06	WTOP Talk Back (AP)	Bodman Confident Oil Supply Can Recover Brave words!
8-1-06	East Bay RI	Advocates say the answer to our energy needs is in the wind 40% of a small school’s energy needs is not representative of those for a modern nation.
7-31-06	Bloomber	Natural Gas Has Biggest Gain This Year in U.S. on Heat Wave For gas-fired units to supply electricity for air conditioning.
7-27-06	US NewsWire	Nuclear Power May Be Answer to Global Warming; NCPA Scholar Calls for Environmentalists to 'Get Serious' About Energy Alternatives A call to arms for true environmentalists
7-27-06	RP News Wire	Device determines how well wind turbines operate Wind turbines are basically unreliable, especially those in salt water, hence the value of this device.
7-25-06	Associated Press	Mexico Secretary: Will Have To Double Oil Exploration Spending Energy is needed all over the world in large quantities.
6-23-06	The Age	States reject wind farm code proposal No comment because I am not sure whether this is for or against wind mills.
6-21-06	The Guardian (Australia)	Lucas Heights: small accidents, huge issues Remember that The Guardian is a paper on the level of Greenpeace. It is not objective. Take care with the veracity of this piece.
6-20-06	The New York Times	Europe's Image Clashes With Reliance on Coal Europe will eventually have to go nuclear and throw out Dutch and Swedish greens.
6-20-06	Hattiesburg American	Sierra Club bases comment on the thickness of a report! What might you expect? Sierra club are merely paid activists not the intelligentia.
6-20-06	AP	Bush (the other Bush) signs Babcock Ranch, alternative fuel bills With continual hurricanes Florida needs more hurricane-proof nuclear plants
6-20-06	DOE to many outlets	Future World Energy Demand To Soar -- Oil's Share Of Demand To Fall Not too surprising. We have been saying this since 1970.
6-18-06	Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.	Wind-power project -- a bad idea for Maine A ittle piece of editorial sense for once.
6-8-06	City News (Australia)	Investing : SnowyHydro legacy is energy and water politics New power plants are a matter for investors not enhineers.
6-7-06	Prensa Latina	Biofuel developed in Cuba Makes sense – what about sugar cane?
5-19-06	CNS Senate News	More Nuclear Power, Bush Says; No Oil Drilling, Pelosi Insists That sounds fine.
5-19-06	Burlington Free Press	Tilting at turbines: This piece is written by an opposing newspaper, the “Vermont Guardian” but clearly the Free Press has the facts.
5-19-06	Associated Press	OPEC: Global tensions keep crude prices up That’s why we need to move away from any use of oil for power.
5-8-06	Sydney Morning Herald	Power struggle raises fears over green credentials - Australia Inevitably rational thought must win out for clean nuclear energy.
5-7-06	American Chronicle	Global Warming, The Big Con Debunking the Global warming chicken-littles
5-5-06	Associated Press	Officals Move to Protect Cape Cod Project Kennedy doesn’t want wind pylons on his backyard, he wants them on yours!
4-26-06	News Wales	Coal and Severn Barrage plan for Welsh energy They really don’t have anything coordinated. I’d like to see a salt-water barrage last for 150 years and generate 3,000 MW!
4-25-06	Purdue News Service	Energy summit coming to Purdue Good local news and a bit more balanced than in the previous few years … nuclear is now an alternative non-polluting energy source!
4-25-06	The Daily Collegian	Neuron Imaging used to improve fuel cells Research for nuclear-genenerated hydrogen
4-24-06	The Washington Post	Green makes case for nuclear energy support Patrick Moore changes his mind
3-30-06	The Guardian	Carbon cop-out Sour grapes – no additional money for the greenies to waste.
3-29-06	The Scotsman	Micro-generation initiative launched A return to the dark ages … and all based on the myth of any human effect on a normal global warming cycle. It’s disturbing to feel rational thinkers can believe the lunatic fringe.
3-29-06	The Irish Examiner	Govt ready to approve electricity inter-connector (and nuclear generated electricity) The Irish are two-faced people – they want everything but the responsibility. Give them zero.
3-27-06	Independent Catholic News	Christian report urges low consumption, non-nuclear energy strategy No condoms in HIV Africa and no sensible power in developed countries – the sense of Rome.
3-20-06	Manawahu Times, New Zealand	Power firms prepare curbs A backward hydro-electric country which tries to balance population against rain!
3-19-06	The Annapolis Capital (MD)	A growing role for alternative energy sources Energy 101 – but the funding wind and solar power is throwing money at the margins
3-19-06	DNA Daily News	Tilting at windmills is paying off for an Indian billionaire That’s what most of the new renewables are, especially in wind, … a quick buck,
3-19-06	Informnauka Agency/Russia	A Russian View On a Hydrogen Future At least they’ve done the calculations and aren’t mythical idealists like Greenpeace types
3-18-06	Canada Free Press	The European Union adopts ambitious biofuels strategy Take good note of the paragraph in blue … some EU politicians know their long term problems in energy.
3-16-06	EuroActiv	NGOs attack EU nuclear research funding The R&D aspect of energy policy is becoming a hot political topic as EU leaders prepare to agree on a common energy policy later this month.
3-14-06	The Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group	Contract for largest windmill powers wind energy to fore China needs to use every power source even things like wind in remote areas.
3-8-06	News Wales	Labour challenged on Llandudno wind farm Llandudno is a seaside resort where “Alice in Wonderland” was written. It seems tp me that the Mad Hatter is active again proposing enormous windmill towers within sight of the beach.
3-8-06	ADN Kronos International	EU unveils blueprint to secure suppies of energy at lower prices Good luck making anything work with Greenpeace in your back door.
3-8-06	Forbes	Blair says meeting energy/climate targets without nuclear a 'major challenge' At last he is getting it right … for challenge read impossibility.
3-5-06	Washington Post	Kerry: U.S. Must 'End the Empire of Oil' Kerry who?
3-2-06	Shanghai Daily	China gets ready to set pace with nuke fusion test Having planned to mine tritium fuel on the moon, they now need the technology.
2-24-06	USA Today	Midwest's windmills generate buzz Still very small potatoes with large areas desecrated. However, it is the Midwest!
2-24-06	Guardian	The power of the poop … in San Francisco of course It couldn’t happen to a nicer citizenry
2-22-06	vanguard (Lagos)	Nigeria Not Interested in Becoming Nuclear Power – but read on Obasanjo is entirely correct.
2-21-06	CB5 - San Francisco	Bush Visits Renewable Energy Laboratory Unfortunately the job cuts which were needed were restored for political imaging
2-14-06	Dominion (Canada)	Sweden to abandon oil and nuclear power Good luck!! Where are they going to replace 45% of their electricity presently produced by nuclear plants?
2-13-06	Ars Technica	Mostly cold fusion A primer on fusion … nowhere near.
2-13-06	Oberlin, KS, Australia and more from Reuters	Climate, supply fears boost UK nuclear case says the Energy minister A widely circulated article picked up by newspapers across the world. It started at Reuters but is clearly significant opinion.
2-13-06	Toronto Star	Wind when you want it. Storage technologies could plug us into more power from the air up there. This is an article replete with pie-in-the-sky, innuendos and suppositions. It is typical of the chicken-little articles of the seventies and is worth reading to see what nonsense is printed. It has been annotated to show the errors. It’s based on words from a used-computer salesman and a Canadian CPA.
2-9-06	Sacramento Bee	Roseville to buy clean, renewable (and more expensive) energy to offset gas, coal sources. The rallying cries, … "Three gourmet coffees or one medium pizza can change the world," … are nonsense. The consequence of even more cost will bite the town later.
2-8-06	Energy Bulletin	Peak oil in the U.S. Congress A representative speaks for 23 minutes and says enough to fill ten but what he did say was mostly reasonable if anyone other than the Speaker was listening.
2-7-06	Planet Ark	Bush Budget Seeks to Recycle Spent Nuclear Fuel It’s taken 30 years to get over the disaster of Jimmy Carter and his licentious successor Bill Clinton.
2-7-06	Bloomber (London)	Crude Rising as Tehran Pursues Nuclear Energy An alternative fuel showing real uncertainty
1-31-06	The Guardian	UK carbon emission targets delayed by government The Department of Industry is correct … the prior targets have gone with the wind.
1-27-06	The Financial Times	Fission for the future A review of James Lovelock’s change of heart by an environmentalist who tries to discredit their erstwhile guru
1-24-06	Helena Independent (AP)	All power go: turbines operating at wind farm 135 MW if they keep turning … a tenth of a nuclear plant output suffering 90 towers 260 feet (30 stories) tall.
1-23-06	Fuel Cell Source	Scottish University grads to Use Solar Power to Generate Hydrogen Fuel Unfortunately they are fooling temselves since they cannot reach high enough temperatures, but then they seem content with little output from solar panels … just enough to power 60 computers!!
1-18-06	NET News Service	TVA touts benefits of wind power Nothing here on the enormous cost of wind even with Government financial payments.
1-16-06	The Monitor (Texas)	Wind power project draws mixed reactions As it should – Germany and the Netherlands are building huge useless arrays that will need to be cleaned up shortly.
1-16-06	The Age (Australia)	Canberra slashes solar-power rebates Solar rebates are inappropriate since others pay, through taxes, for a few extremists.
1-13-06	China View (Xinhuanet)	Wind power project planned in Qingdao Even 5 Mw is valuable in China especially as a show piece for the 2008 Olympic Games
1-13-06	Medical News Today	Plants Release Methane, A Greenhouse Gas - Goes Against Previous Assumptions Perhaps greenhouse gases are just that and nothing to do with humans!
1-12-06	Reuters	Californian regulators adopt $2.9 billion solar power plan This was what Carter tried back in the 70s and those roof-top solar panels have decayed since then and never been renewed. This is $2.9 billion down the drain.
1-12-06	Salem News	Town to explore harnessing wind power There’s no reason not to explore it and even use the power locally as long as there is no real energy to support. Wind power was used in the old days to power the bulb in the barn … so we know it is real and really small.
1-10-06	WWTI News Watch	Environmental Groups Celebrate Commencement Of Maple Ridge Wind Power Project Maple Ridge is now defiled with hardware.
12-25-05	PennLicve.com	Solar use can reward homeowner Sounds good but solar rebates were given back in Carter’s days and the dead and unusable solar panels on many houses are witness to the need for high maintenance costs.
First 09-01-05	New Internationalist Magazine	Nuclear is the new black … Talk of a supposed nuclear ‘solution’ to climate change is polluting the debate. Desperately anti-nuclear and taken to using erroneous data about renewables.
12-21-05	Alter Net	Loving Nuclear Power A relatively objective discussion by a Californian
12-20-05	Inter Press Service Agency	France Overrides Wind Energy Foes Take care! This is by an environmentalist author and is therefore biased.
12-20-05	CRI Online	Chinese Companies Sign Ever-Largest Wind Power Generation Deal China is into everything and each alternative will compete against each other in the field.
12-19-05	MS NBC	Honda’s new business venture: solar power -- Carmaker had been testing it as way to produce hydrogen for fuel cells ANS and DOE are neglecting what other more credible organizations are doing.
12-19-05	Christian Science Monitor	Interest revives in hydropower on a small scale, sparked by the new energy bill and high fuel costs. Pretty general speculation – but every little helps.
12-18-05	The Cincinnati Enquirer	Foes of nuclear power may soon run out of steam My! When Gus Speth of the Natural Resources Defence Council anti organization turns against the religion that he taught to Bill Carter of Georgia something must be happening.
12-14-05	San Francisco Chronicle (AP)	Californian regulators unveil $3.2 billion plan to expand solar power Users are conned into adding solar panels which then are enormously expensive to maintain and repair … as in Colorado
12-13-05	China View	2nd largest Hydropower project to start construction Chinese hydroelectric plants are as much for flood control as power.
12-2-05	San Francisco Chronicle (AP)	Imported electricity fails state standards -- Coal-fired plants harm environment in West This is hardly news and Californians don’t care.
11-14-05	Yahoo News (Reuters)	German wind lobby hails policy, utilities uneasy More fiddling!
11-14-05	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Australia pioneers energy from hot rocks Trust they make a go of it. The geothermal system was a buts in California because of sulphur-laden corrosive steam.
6-28-05	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Nuclear project could solve energy woes--scientist Watch the name … Fell … another idiot.
6-22-05	Yahoo News	G8 decision on fusion would herald nuclear future What a crock! These people are confusing themselves in ignorance. Fusion could do less in the future than a breeder reactor … so said the NSF a long time ago.
4-20-05	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Portugal to get world's first commercial wave farm Another deck-chair being moved.
4-26-05	Yahoo News (Reuters)	China Eyes Turbines at Sea to Boost Wind Power In 20-30 years China will be fully nuclear and hydro powered. There will be no need for inefficient, unreliable, and costly wind turbines.
2-12-05	The Japan Times	Environmentalists discuss energy matters in Kyoto Failed Green politicians playing in the sand.
1-27-05	ic Esssex.com	Wind blow for the greens When windmills aren’t an abstract concept, they are undesirable as well as inefficient.
1-24-05	Financial Times	Coal only clean with huge investment Coal can only compete with nuclear following huge investments from taxes
1-23-05	San Francisco Times	New fuel battle ignited in state: Intense debate over liquefied natural gas terminals along coast Californians deserve what they get – fuel shortages.
12-1-04	Yahoo News (Reuters)	China Toll 166 in Grim Saga of Mine Deaths Should we continue to kill people by using coal to produce electricity?
11-29-04	Green Party announcement	Principal Speaker 'nukes' nuclear power in Oxford Union Debate The ignorance of youth which has not yet had to exercise responsibility … this is an excellent example of idealism and confused thinking.
9-29-04	Solar-Access.com	Transmission Know-How Brings Wind Power to Shore Naiveté marks the wind programs … ignoring maintenance at sea with heavily subsidized programs.
9-27-04	Yahoo Alerts (Reuters)	Wind and Nuclear Power -- a Generation Gap? Note Vahrenholt’s realistic comment below.
9-15-04	The Japan Times	Communication tower runs on wind, sunlight Great use for alternative fuels … a remote, low power demand facility. Even solar works here.
7-8-04	The Japan Times (Associated Press)	China calls Japan's gas hunt in EEZ 'provocative' All possible fuels have their difficulties but those that could result in conflict are most difficult.
6-30-04	The Japan Times	Japan opts to search EEZ for natural gas Good to have a back-up poser source.
6-18-04	The Japan Times	Hunt for alternative to coal moves on from nuclear reactor ambitions A demonstration of the fuzzy hopeful, but useless, policies advocated by environmentalists
6-17-04	Kyodo Times	Fuel cell symposium covers advances, future of energy source Fuel Cells are a perfect complement to the ability of nuclear energy to provide the primary power.
2-26-04	The Japan Times	German expert pushes renewable energy Unfortunately these ‘experts’ are not experts. They are political activists with agendas that include the acquisition of power.
12-17-03	Yahoo News (Reuters)	TransAlta to Build Its Fifth Canadian Wind Farm Fiddling with 68 MW while ‘Rome’ (the need for thousands of MW) burns.
7-29-03	The Japan Times	Winds of change mean big profits for Eco Power Nice title but Japan has little space to spare on space-intensive wind-mills.
7-25-03	The Japan Times	Electric, gas firms join forces on pipeline This alliance will help the Japanese competition (versus China) for a new gas pipeline from Russia.
7-14-03	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Britain Gives Major Boost to Offshore Wind Power The projections are all pie in the sky since the problems of maintenance off-shore in rough seas and salt-water, and the problems of the lack of suitable grids have not been addressed. Note that it takes 17 wind farms of the British coast to theoretically produce the same power as one benign NPP.
7-2-03	The Japan Times	Gas firms tie up on power generation Preparing for deregulation
6-30-03	The Japan Times	Russia offered cash and cooperation. Diversification in real power supplies is something the Japanese have learnt well.
6-21-03	The Japan Times	Solar plant in Gobi pitched as way to cut power costs Covering the deserts with solar panels seems a good idea for the world !!
5-15-03	The Japan Times	German politician promotes solar energy He’s honest enough to say it won’t work unless granted a mandatory market with a fixed price … that is, solar power cannot be competitive.
4-30-03	The Japan Times	Siting windmills in parks irks environmentalists Environmentalists want it all ways – all unrealistic ways!
4-18-03	The Japan Times	Journalist offers renewable energy as solution to wars fought over oil A German Green speaks.
3-12-03	Environment News Service	Methane Extraction Methods Alarm Ranchers, Conservationists Alternative fuels pollute
2-25-03	The Guardian	Five years for green power to prove its worth The UK Ministers throw down gauntlet on alternative to nuclear comeback but leave the door open for nuclear since wind simply cannot make the target in 5 years.
2-19-03	The Japan Times	Town touts biogas, recycling as key goals The environmental movement is a prime candidate for use by anyone who wants to use it. Cleanliness is not the issue … profit is.
2-19-03	The Japan Times	Businesses told of fossil fuel tax plan Reality of course is that this will not work. If you penalize the coal industry too much they will go out of business especially while the nuclear side is under attack. The only result might be is that normal citizens would be subject to abnormal and unreal prices.
1-21-03	The Japan Times	Geothermal heat pump systems to get trial use Californian geothermal experience showed a severe crudding of the pipes from sulphur deposits … they seem to assume no maintenance here!
1-20-03	The Japan Times	Emmissions trading to be given trial use Good luck!
1-18-03	The Japan Times	Construction of Tokyo's giant windmill completed Two of these 235 foot giants with 90 foot blades will fuel just 800 homes … so how many “homes” do you think the 25,000,000 people in Greater Tokyo represent and how many windmills would they need?!
1-14-03	The Japan Times	Renewable energy plan looks to wind, seawater, fuel cells The enterprise seems to promise almost miniscule efficiencies with high capital costs.