...on nuclear energy.
Of course, Lovins and his asshole apologists are about 500 billion tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste releases to late. Lovins started writing in 1976 his illiterate diatribes about how we didn't need nuclear because solar would save us. That was the same year he said that cellulosic ethanol would save us.
In 2001 he wrote how we would have hydrogen hypercars in our showrooms by 2005.
Actually, uranium provides more than 54% of the American climate change free gas energy.
It's pretty bad when a Repuke has more sense than you do.
There is NOT ONE anti-nuke, not one, who gives a rat's ass about conflicts of interest connected with dangerous fossil fuels, about which the anti-nuke religion could care less.
The anti-nukes, NOT ONE of whom has much moral integrity in my opinion, love to go on and on and on and on about every tiny flaw in nuclear energy while they
ignore every other fucking thing on the planet because they are intellectually, morally arbitrary and selective in their attention.
Nuclear doesn't have to be perfect to be better than every thing else. It merely has to be better than everything else, including the stuff the anti-nukes ignore for dogmatic religious reasons.
Just as in the case of the creationist position, the anti-nuke position is undermined by simple
data.
For instance, there is the famous ExternE report (and when I say famous I mean among people who know something about energy - which generally excludes all anti-nukes.)
The Externe report shows that nuclear energy has the lowest external cost in Germany, 1/3 that of solar PV energy, and 15 times lower than biomass:
http://www.externe.info/More data is contained within.
The most destructive anti-nuke of all time - a man who be responsible for the dumping of hundreds of millions, if not more, metric tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere - Gerhard Schroeder, gets 250,000 Euros per year from the world's largest dangerous fossil fuel company, Gazprom.
There is NOT ONE member of the highly paid (off) anti-nuke industry who raised even a whimper of protest about ethics in this case.
In fact, the anti-nuke religion couldn't care less what open and publicly known bribes Gerhard Schroeder takes. He did the anti-nuke religion's bidding. He destroyed nuclear infrastructure to benefit the dangerous fossil fuel industry, of which the anti-nuke industry is a wholly owned subsidiary.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=28987But, if some obscure congress person somewhere has an interest in uranium - all of a sudden in the morally void imaginations of the anti-nuke religion - a great scandal is taking place.
In fact, the renewable energy industry functions more or less as a loincloth for the fossil fuel industry, from BP ("Beyond Petroleum") - the killers at Texas City (about which the anti-nuke industry couldn't care less) and for coal mining interests in South Africa:
http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN556083.html
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Germany's plans to phase out nuclear power plants and shut coal mines will increase its dependence on coal from South Africa, the head of a coal trading firm said on Wednesday.
"South Africa has a great potential to expand its exports to Germany and strengthen its market position in that country even further," Patrick Steifert, managing director at Germany's Hanseatic Coal & Coke Trading, told the Coaltrans meeting in Johannesburg.
Steifert said South Africa was the main exporter of steam coal to Europe's biggest economy, followed by Russia, Poland and Indonesia.
The article is a business press article, but I note that the morally void anti-nuke industry is completely indifferent to the consequences of its actions.
It couldn't care less.
Mind you this kind of arbitrary exceptionalism that tries to isolate nuclear from its alternatives, is not limited to bribery of politicians. The anti-nukes are notoriously silent on dangerous fossil fuel terrorism, dangerous fossil fuel war, dangerous fossil fuel waste and dangerous fossil fuel mining.
But man, just say the word "uranium..."
There will always be bribery around all
significant forms of energy. The main reason that politicians aren't being bribed in the silicon shortages that have plagued the failed solar industry, is because the solar industry doesn't count. All of the world's solar facilities could shut tomorrow and the world wouldn't notice. Not so the world's nuclear facilites.
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