nuclear power
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Dalai Lama supports nuclear power, disses wind and solar
In a news conference in Tokyo, the Dalai Lama told his increasingly anti-nuclear hosts that nuclear power is an important solution for underdeveloped countries still grappling with basic energy poverty. His talking points were almost identical to those of stateside nuclear advocates, including discussions of the risks of nuclear accidents compared to other everyday risks. […]
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Did Germany screw the planet by deep-sixing its nuclear plants?
Germany’s phaseout of nuclear power was a boneheaded move that has wreaked havoc with its power grid and cost consumers dearly, and it will hurt the planet by leading to more coal-fired power, says a feature by Aaron Wiener in The New Republic. But wait, says Grist’s own David Roberts! Germany did no such thing! […]
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GOP tries to explain away loan-guarantee hypocrisy, fails
In hyping the Solyndra faux scandal, Republicans have gone after the loan-guarantee program with guns blazing. They just can't support big government picking winners! Except, uh, turns out they can.
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Critical List: E.U. could ban tar-sands oil; solar industry ‘a real mess’
Yesterday, an E.U. commission got behind environmental standards that could keep tar-sands oil from being used in Europe.
Another nuclear reactor in Japan shut down.
Clean energy investments can only go so far in keeping China's emissions down. The country will meet its environmental goals in the short term, researchers say, but it’s growing too fast for its emissions to stay manageable for long.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander on making bipartisan energy progress
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) tells Grist why he's crossing party lines to slash energy company subsidies and pour money into cleantech research.
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Germany's phaseout reveals the true costs of nuclear power
Bad news for nuclear advocates: Nuclear power turns out even more expensive than we thought.
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Russia decides there’s no problem with Chernobyl-style reactors
Soviet-era, Chernobyl-style RMYK nuclear reactors were only designed to be used for 30 years, but now Russia has decided to extend the life of 11 of them to 45 years. Great idea or GREATEST idea?
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Can Japan get off nuclear by 2012 without wrecking its economy?
A new plan for a massive shift to renewables could move Japan away from nuclear permanently, even as it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs for the country's ailing economy.
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Critical List: Obama admin backs more solar projects; Kiribati president wants a new island
The Obama administration provided a loan guarantee to a SolarCity project that would put solar panels on 160,000 military homes — "the larger domestic residential rooftop solar project in history," Energy Secretary Chu said.
Rick Perry thinks he's a smart as Galileo. Or at least that some climate-denying scientists are.
So he’d be pretty irked to see yet more evidence that global warming is real, if he actually read newspapers.