The negative aspects of renwables get a pretty thorough airing in a piece in the Guardian Online today, in an interview with Jesse Ausubel, a professor of environmental science and director of the Human Environment programme at Rockefeller University in New York.
He makes the case for Nuclear power pretty strongly. I guess we need to look at both renewables and other options like nuclear.
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Working in a US nuclear plant myself, I'm clearly not anti-nuclear, but there are many big hurdles to clear for the future Mr. Ausubel envisions, including a vast increase in public knowledge about the genuine good and bad of nuclear. See my novel "Rad Decision" at http://RadDecision.blogspot.com. Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog has said "I'd like to see Rad Decision widely read."
Posted by James Aach | July 25, 2007 5:40 PM
Posted on July 25, 2007 17:40
"Renewables may be renewable, but they are not green," he added
Not necessarily Professor Ausubel. When combined with Green Chemical technologies and provided that the newest (and better) still developing technologies and sustainable supply chain infrastructure is implemented.
I'm out on the nuclear issue. Although I am pro-Fusion projects.
I have to quiz just how much technical detail Prof Ausubel went into - on Biofuels and if he is merely focusing on the Ethanol-1 (Corn Ethanol) issue. Which it is acknowledged is not a good fuel stock or a particuarly great chemicals from biomass stock either, compared with other developments.
What's Prof Ausubel's relationship with the Nuclear industry is what I wish to know?
*To readers I am affliated with the renewables/biofuel/chemical sectors
Posted by Mark C R UK | July 26, 2007 11:02 AM
Posted on July 26, 2007 11:02