Tagged with Amory Lovins 
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Intermittency and you
Do we need nuclear and coal plants for baseload power? 144
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago
On Friday, Matt Yglesias had a post making the point that only socialist state control seems capable of creating a robust nuclear power industry. It's a valid point -- the only countries building nuke plants these days are the ones where governments are making the decisions. David Frum replied with a post containing a series of wildly overbroad assertions ranging from false to highly misleading, with no evidence or links to support them. (Nuclear power does impressive things to conservatives' error-to-word ratios.) Matt replied, and in the course of doing so let this drop: "That said, obviously you need a certain amount electricity that can be relied upon irrespective of how windy it is or whether the sun is shining. So I’d happily see the nuclear share of the pie grow at the expense of coal and oil as the provider of that baseload electricity."
This notion has really grabbed the public imagination and been embraced as conventional wisdom: that the grid can only incorporate a limited amount of renewable energy, thus we need coal and nuclear power plants for baseload electricity. Clean energy skeptics chant the word "baseload" like a talisman. There's far less to the claim than meets the eye, though.
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'stache into me
Slideshow: Our favorite green mustaches 6
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
For years, scientists have contemplated the mysterious but persistent connection between ecological wisdom and the follicular phenomenon that is the mustache. Is it the 'stache that produces the wisdom? Or does the wisdom push its bearer toward the 'stache? Ponder while watching our slideshow.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Big hopes for Al G. 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Extending electricity's shelf-life, the recent carbon control high-five between the U.S. and China, and bending algae to our biofueled will: this week in climate news from The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.
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Today’s leftovers 1
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Nuclear proponents are, like, totally John Galt 43
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Finding out what’s important at the Rocky Mountain Institute 0
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Lovins predicts the coming oil price crash won’t be like the last one 5
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Not Lovins nukes 4
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Lovins and Sheikh defend definition and record of micropower 16
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago -
What should I ask the efficiency guru about nuclear power? 67
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TED talks 19
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago -
All You Need Is Lovins
A conversation with energy guru Amory Lovins 11
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago -
Lovins 3
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago -
Send me your questions before tomorrow 35
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago -
Lovins v. Richter 45
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago -
Tighten Up
Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress 11
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Indirect greenhouse-gas savings 41
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CSM investigates 42
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It’s all about inequality 18
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And does it well 9
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago