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The Nuclear Energy Agency -- an international agency created by the OECD to "assist its Member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" -- issues a report claiming that nuclear power is just the thing for climate change. Didn't see that one coming!

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Orfintain Posted 9:17 am
    20 Oct 2008

    basis I am curious if there is a reason to your antinuclear basis or if you are just generally more paranoid about nuclear waste than C02 emissions?
  2. Delay And Deny's avatar

    Delay And Deny Posted 11:02 am
    20 Oct 2008

    Nocera First, Nukes SecondThe primary goal of our energy process should be to industrialize the Nocera process for creating Hydrogen.
  3. Charles Barton Posted 11:02 am
    20 Oct 2008

    David RobertsOrfintain, David Roberts is a member of a cult that worships the word of Amory Lovins.  Since Amory Lovins is opposed to nuclear power, Roberts is too.  

    Charles Barton
  4. Orfintain Posted 11:26 am
    20 Oct 2008

    Nocera ProcessNocera Process is a storage technology not "creating hydrogen" nothing more than a new kind of battery potentially useful- sure.

     but there are no holy grails
  5. Delay And Deny's avatar

    Delay And Deny Posted 3:52 pm
    20 Oct 2008

    Sun + Water = Fuel

    http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/page1/
    "I'm going to show you something I haven't showed anybody yet," said Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry at MIT, speaking this May to an auditorium filled with scientists and U.S. government energy officials. He asked the house manager to lower the lights. Then he started a video. "Can you see that?" he asked excitedly, pointing to the bubbles rising from a strip of material immersed in water. "Oxygen is pouring off of this electrode." Then he added, somewhat cryptically, "This is the future. We've got the leaf."
  6. rsmith02 Posted 2:47 am
    21 Oct 2008

    Thanks, nuke!Nuclear waste is our gift to future generations.  The more we give them the more responsible they will have to be in managing it, so I think of it as a way to build character in the yet-to-be-born.
  7. rsmith02 Posted 2:49 am
    21 Oct 2008

    HmmThis link didn't work:

    http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/page1/
    If it's really sunlight+ water = fuel, that's great.  No need for a $10 billion+ nuke plant.

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