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8 connected korrents · 9 moments on record from 11 Jul 2006 to 1 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about energy and nuclear power.
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The hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.
Holds PKPaul Krugman
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Europe cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both.
Holds DMDavid MacKay
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Nuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs.
Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
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Same subject: energy, America, nuclear power
American manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.
Holds MHMolson Hart
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Nuclear power is dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources like coal, oil, and wind.
Holds DMDavid MacKay
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Nuclear power is politically unreliable as an answer to climate change, because every major accident freezes reactor construction worldwide for another decade.
Holds SPSerhii Plokhy
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.
No longer holds GMGeorge Monbiot
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Nuclear power plants, the standard example of software that must be proved correct, do not care about formal verification: thorough testing is enough for them.
Holds HWHillel Wayne
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Same subject: energy, nuclear power
Societies have a pattern of drastically overreacting to a problem after one emotionally vivid incident, as with DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power
Holds TCTyler Cowen