Ethiopia, Sudan to develop nuclear with the help of Russianshttps://face2faceafrica.com/article/ethiopia-sudan-develop-nuclear-power-help-russia
Malcom you are dead right, nuclear is finished!
I don't see a single week without a major pro-nuclear annoncement !
The humongous plant, which will be the biggest ever, to be built in India in December (may take a few years, of course) is another proof that people are realising that without nuclear it will be very difficult to satisfy our electrical increasing needs. Not in the US, of course but in developping country, they will need a lot.
I encourage you to read this article from Forbes magazine:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2018/03/07/california-governors-race-is-heating-up-and-spotlighting-nuclear-energy/#7107ac0d609a
Here are 2 paragraphs I particularily enjoyed:
“If we are going to solve climate change and have sufficient energy to power electric cars and desalinate water, then we will need a lot of nuclear power,” Shellenberger told this writer. “I think that people who are opposed to nuclear energy are ‘chicken hawks,’ not ‘climate hawks.’ The real climate hawks are using all the tools at our disposal, including nuclear. Environmentalists who oppose nuclear energy are ‘fake environmentalists’ and they are ‘green washing.’” "While a major proponent of renewable energy, he is also a sharp critic of it. That’s because the cost of electricity has risen five-times faster in California than it has nationally, he says, largely because of renewable energy mandates and subsidies — even though the cost of the underlying technologies has come down."
Michael Shellenberger is :
"Time magazine Heroes of the Environment (2008),[1] winner of the 2008 Green Book Award,[2] co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004).[3] He and his co-author Ted Nordhaus have been described as "ecological modernists"[4] and "eco-pragmatists."[5] In 2015, Shellenberger joined with 18 other self-described ecomodernists to coauthor An Ecomodernist Manifesto.[6] On November 30, 2017, he announced during a New York Times conference that he would run for Governor of California in 2018"
There are so many phony environmentalists out there, be careful, they are simply replacing a religion with another and they are not doing much better than their ancestors. It is usually very hard to have a conversation with anti-nuclear people, they won't let you talk!
Solar panel on a sunny day seem to be an amazing solution but, at best they will produce 50% of the time, they will need batteries to store energy and they will take a lot of space. People don't talk about cities in China devastated because they produce solar panel in a very environmentaly destructive way. Of course...Be careful, don't be fooled.
Good luck to all, wait a year or two and you will be rewarded.