Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
Archive for the ‘Climate’ Category
Factory Built Powerplants
Posted in Climate, Energy, Motivation, Thorium, tagged Alabama, Decatur, Delta, nuclear, Thorium, ULA on Monday 2009.11.02 | Leave a Comment »
Lies, lies, lies
Posted in Climate, idiocracy, tagged global warming, Latif on Wednesday 2009.10.14 | 1 Comment »
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Valuation, Nature, Economics, Sagoff, Costanza, Cost on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
National Review Online
Posted in Climate, Science, idiocracy, tagged CO2 lag, global warming, National Review, Rand Simberg, Strawman on Thursday 2009.09.03 | Leave a Comment »
Jonah Goldberg posts a tired strawman argument in NRO:
Last month, in another study, also released in Science, Oregon State University researchers claimed to settle the debate over what caused and ended the last Ice Age. Increased solar radiation coming from slight changes in the Earth’s rotation, not greenhouse-gas levels, were to blame.
It’s total BS of [...]
Thorium Energy Alliance
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Thorium, industry, tagged lftr, Thorium, Thorium Energy Alliance on Friday 2009.08.21 | 1 Comment »
A quick way to get up to speed on Thorium and LFTR, aimed at lay people.
I seriously doubt their cost and schedule stuff. One needs to do material science tests with this, so it’s going to take longer.
But otherwise. It is the industrial solution for the world. It is perhaps not [...]
Kinds of Denialism
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, coal, nuclear, Germany, France, WWF, Scorecard on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | Leave a Comment »
The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German.
To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the neighbouring Britain and Germany which use mostly coal. So, since WWF and Allianz don’t like it, [...]
Save the U-233!
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Thorium, idiocracy, industry on Sunday 2009.08.09 | Leave a Comment »
Posting about it again. The Energy From Thorium forum has more on what’s going on. Some bogus weapons reasons are presented to the press for why it will be downblended. It could be the startup fuel of new LFTRs instead.
Quoting DV82XL:
This is the equivalent to the move to have streetcar tracks ripped up in so [...]
Mathematically Wrong
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Motivation, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, Carter, De Freitas, McLean, Tamino, Trends, Statistics on Friday 2009.08.07 | Leave a Comment »
Tamino examines a certain paper:
It’s certainly not true that their analysis shows “natural climate forcing associated with ENSO is a major contributor to variability and perhaps recent trends in global temperature.” It shows no such thing; their analysis removes all the effect of trends.
A thing to remember when you encounter McLean, de Freitas and Carter, [...]
Kirk Sorensen’s LFTR Talk at Google
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Science, Thorium, industry, tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium on Saturday 2009.08.01 | Leave a Comment »
Here.
Coal is Bad
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, idiocracy, tagged coal, nuclear, TVA on Wednesday 2009.06.24 | Leave a Comment »
And there could have been much less of its use – but the alternatives of the past lay in half finished ruins. Kirk Sorensen explores them and their history concisely.
Grand total: 85,000 tons of coal each day that TVA wouldn’t be burning.
