Energy produced locally by mini-plants will always be much more expensive per unit. It is all very well admitting that…
On No more big power plants? Civic energy could provide half our electricity by 2050
Energy produced locally is also more efficient as less is lost in lengthy transition pathways. It has also been shown…
On No more big power plants? Civic energy could provide half our electricity by 2050
That graph showing the evacuation zones is very misleading. Read this.. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Appendices/Fukushima--Radiation-Exposure/ The after-effects of the fallout from fukushima are…
On German imports of nuclear power – the myth revisited
So did the original plan call for 44 or 170 units? It delivered more than one, less than the other..…
On French nuclear power history – the unknown story
The Netherlands has a tax on coal: http://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/themaoverstijgend/programmas_en_formulieren/aangifte_kolenbelasting_dagweek There even has been a coal tax for a short time aimed…
On Don’t call it a coal phaseout!
Thanks, Craig, for this quick analysis. However, I would like to contradict you in two points: 1) The proposed instrument…
On Don’t call it a coal phaseout!
@Jonathan: Problems with nuclear plants' waste heat are: - TOO MUCH - there is no rational use of 2 GW…
On Looking back at the Energiewende 1980 – Nuclear Cannot be Efficient
The lower EROEI values given here for nuclear are largely outdated and the more realistic upper figures are well above…
On Renewables K.O.-ed by EROI?
Thanks, dear Craig, for this article! Will you write another one on the earlier 1980 book "Energiewende: Wachstum und Wohlstand…
On “Energy wasted by design”
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks is a member of the SPD, the party that owes its political majority in the…
On First in class, but not best in class – The EU’s proposal for the 2015 climate conference in Paris