Martin Nicholson critiques Australian Renewable Energy Report
Berry Brooks' blog "BraveNewClimate" is one of the best pro-nuclear blogs. http://bravenewclimate.com/
Berry does many of the same things I have done in "Nuclear Green", but he does them far better than I have. One of the things I did when I started "Nuclear Green" was a comparison of the relative costs of renewable energy and nuclear energy. I looked at the costs of conventional nuclear energy. Although I believed that the cost of nuclear power could be substantially reduced with the introduced of molten salt technology, but even without molten salt technology conventional nuclear energy would cost less and be far more reliable than renewable energy.
I also looked at planning studies that assumed only renewable energy and pointed out flaws in them. Soon Berry began publishing similar reports written by people far better qualified than I was that supported my conclusions. I thought that there was no need for me to continue this if Berry was covering it in a far more adequate fashion than I was. I must say that most of these studies were not written by Berry personally, but were written by collaborators who Berry encouraged to offer these reports. Taken together, the studies of renewable energy in "BraveNewClimate" have offered devastating critiques of the renewable energy concept. Berry's associates have shown that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would be far more expensive and problematic than replacing them with nuclear power. The latest study in BraveNewClimate is
based on a paper by Mark Nicholson :
Berry does many of the same things I have done in "Nuclear Green", but he does them far better than I have. One of the things I did when I started "Nuclear Green" was a comparison of the relative costs of renewable energy and nuclear energy. I looked at the costs of conventional nuclear energy. Although I believed that the cost of nuclear power could be substantially reduced with the introduced of molten salt technology, but even without molten salt technology conventional nuclear energy would cost less and be far more reliable than renewable energy.
I also looked at planning studies that assumed only renewable energy and pointed out flaws in them. Soon Berry began publishing similar reports written by people far better qualified than I was that supported my conclusions. I thought that there was no need for me to continue this if Berry was covering it in a far more adequate fashion than I was. I must say that most of these studies were not written by Berry personally, but were written by collaborators who Berry encouraged to offer these reports. Taken together, the studies of renewable energy in "BraveNewClimate" have offered devastating critiques of the renewable energy concept. Berry's associates have shown that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would be far more expensive and problematic than replacing them with nuclear power. The latest study in BraveNewClimate is
based on a paper by Mark Nicholson :
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