Environment & Energy

The paper is open sourced; I post links to it all the time, usually in the hope that people with poor comprehension can learn to read; usually a rather dubious wish.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

I would question whether anyone who raises the point of Three Mile Island, some 46 years and change later and wants to talk about "lies" and irrationality has any kind of clue about the world at large, which is on fire because people who know very little about anything at all are very loud asserting nonsense, "real, stable, geniuses," all.

Of course, I am familiar intimately with nuclear issues, having downloaded, read, and seriously considered many thousands of papers, 12,117 to be exact, as of this morning, a number that was slight smaller yesterday, because this morning I was expanding my knowledge of Gurry-Darken maps of Pu metal mutual solubility generated by appeal to the Hume-Rothery rules, since I plan on conversing with my son over Thanksgiving on the subject.



I've been studying nuclear energy intensely ever since Chernobyl blew up in August of 1986. At that time, I was as dumb as any antinuke here; but I relieved myself of ignorance.

Of course, this is just a subdirectory of the larger issues associated with the environment.



Which in turn is a subdirectory of a directory devoted to all sorts of scientific papers, physics, chemistry, materials science, molecular biology, engineering, mathematics...etc...



I also have rather large directories for non-scientific topics, history, for instance.

I'm not a mumbling rube trying to make excuses for the complete and total failure of so called "renewable energy" to address extreme global warming, repeating rote and tiresome bullshit about batteries and hydrogen, carrying on about benchtop "breakthroughs" reported by science journalists, as if they're about to solve all our problems, and then carrying on about bullshit that took place in the 20th century, insipidly so.

I've spent a lifetime studying these issues in the primary scientific literature outside my day jobs, for which I have also worked the primary scientific literature. I'd like to think my work saved lives.

Now my life is reaching its end, and it is, I suppose sad, to understand - as I do - that it was largely all for naught; things got worse and worse with the same chanting bullshit being louder and louder and louder all the time.

I did raise a son who may carry some of the things I've learned forward. I hope and trust he will exceed whatever I have known.

As for being lectured from a rube level as to what I do and do not understand, well, it goes with the territory. It's not like this is even the thousandth time I've been exposed to these sorts of claims. Ignorance is nothing if not loud; after all this time, if nothing is clear, that is.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.