Meanwhile, Germany is closing nuclear plants and upping its reliance on Russian natural gas. Great job, Green Party! 

Maybe if they hadn’t decided to shut down all their nuclear plants, they wouldn’t be in the position of being forced to buy gas from Russia...

This is possibly the worst misreading of a legal document I have ever witnessed. I get that you/Earther don’t like the Biden administration, but there is zero inconsistency with saying (1) the Court’s injunction required leasing but (2) it did not require leasing on the specific terms/timelines these plaintiffs are…

This seems disingenuous at best. My understanding, which appears to be backed up in this article is that the former administration set up this lease. The current admin then put a pause on it. Then a judge said that they can’t pause the lease sale without Congress (which seems weird because it appears the former…

Macron announced that France is getting back into building nuclear. Maybe France can get into the game with RR, shorten development/implementation time and reduce costs too.

There is a good argument to be made that any government money should be in the form of loans. CCS is a business necessity if those petrochemical plants want to remain competitive selling to Europe.

The link you posted is good. I do not think any rational person can expect final energy demand to actually decrease by…

Many people hate on Carbon Capture and Storage, and I too hate that we’re at this point. But we’re past the point of no return. There is no future in which we aren’t going to have to rely on CCS. Even if you magically snap your finger and everyone has suddenly gone Carbon Neutral. We’re still going to go past the…

You know, I was with you until that last paragraph. Unsustainable use of natural resources is a human failing - it has nothing to do with economic models. Communist and socialist countries have arguably worse environment records over time, and every human society has overused resources.

Momentary thread hijack: there’s another popular climate article today, by Dharna Noor, that is illustrating the new limits that our broken Kinja comment system is placing on discussion.

Makes the decision to decommission nuke plants look all the dumber.

Man, I’m really tired of this ‘tech blog’ always having it’s head so far up it’s pretentious ass to actually spend 5 minutes researching any technology before they write opinion pieces on it.

Nuclear power offers zero carbon emissions to generate the power, though other parts of the process are a source of emissions.

The constant kneecapping of our largest source of carbon free electricity is why this country is up to its neck in cheap natural gas power generation. Due to no small part of the greenwashing industry .

I gotta jump in here too, in regards to the attacks on nuclear power. Is nuclear power perfect? Nope. It needs to be improved in many ways.

It also produces radioactive waste, of which there’s roughly 85,000 metric tons in the U.S.

But thanks to public skepticism of its safety and skyrocketing prices for technology, the industry has landed on hard times.

Importantly—and unusually for a bill cheered by green groups—the bill also contains a huge bailout for the state’s nuclear industry.

How do we know that the oil in question didn’t flow to market via different means? Have any companies cancelled actual extraction plans as a result of pipeline protests?

Have any of these campaigns actually resulted in “Keep it in the Ground?” Or did the companies just shift to carrying it by trucks instead?

Decommissioning Nuke plants with years of life left is always shortsighted. It’s a result of NGO’s and state govt patting each other on the back for being good at lip service to climate change.

5 gas plants at 30 MW each for a total capacity increase of 150 MW to the grid. California decommissioned a 2500 MW nuclear plant in 2013 seems like a shortsighted choice