Environment & Energy

I seem to recall reading somewhere - possibly somewhat apocryphal - that one of the motivations for European colonization of North America was that Europe was running quite short of wood.

The Drax solution - that these awful people Finns indorse to address those months of Dunkelflaute - is not "renewable." Forests that are strip mined do not regenerate all that rapidly, if in fact they regenerate at all. Then too, with extreme global heating, the forests may burn, as they are apparently doing in Canada, before they've can be strip mined and burned in a Rankine steam powerplant.

The complaints about the availability of uranium are just nonsense. The key to addressing it, while simultaneously neutering proliferation concerns, is to switch to a plutonium economy driven by highly complex isotopic vectors, and uranium to also possess, similarly, complex isotopic vectors.

It is clear that most people who complain about nuclear energy do so from a perspective of extreme ignorance of the technology, and even when the are knowledgeable about the technology, they engage in selective attention.

I would think that in Finland, where they've gone through a rather messy FOAKE experience with their EPR, they might well consider taking what they've learned to do it again. Otherwise the experience and knowledge is lost.

Jacobson is a horseman of the apocalypse, an appalling fool, and if nothing, Finland expresses the depth of his myopia.

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