Comments on: The Lindberg Report Podcast: Eminent Scientist Trashes Renewables, Touts Nuclear

By: Patrick Cornelius

Patrick Cornelius — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:55:06 +0000

A compromise could be Thorium Pebble reactors with helium cooling brayton cycle.

REFERENCES

http://pebblebedreactor.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

http://www.eas.asu.edu/~holbert/eee460/dfg/index.html

my futile attempt to contact the Religious Right in America here http://www.youtube.com/user/AAGWgladiator

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:48:52 +0000

Hi
I just listened to your pod cast. Thank you for your interest. Not sure what your point is, Some the language that Mr. Finch used, ie” if they would bathe, shave and spiff up a bit”. is uncalled for, it is the message of Mr. Lovelock that is important in this case. His first book about Gaia seems to be the catalyst for the green movement. Now Mr. Lovelock has changed his tune. Why? I don’t have that answer. Why would he want nuclear waste buried in his yard, I know I don’t want it in my yard. At 86, is Mr. Lovelock not as sharp as he once was or is he having the last laugh. Again, I don’t know.
What I do know, is that massive amounts of tax dollars are being wasted on wind farms that have proved they are not capable of doing the job, the promoters say they can do.
Again, thanks you for your interest.

Ron

By: Max

Max — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:48:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment. My article is a review of another person’s blog, who quoted from Mr. Lovelock’s books, so there is a great deal of that material here. The author’s (Mr. Finch) referring to ‘greens’ as ‘yokels’, and suggesting that all ‘greens’ are unwashed and unkempt really got my attention.

I have no doubt Mr. Lovelock could be right on about climate change, but for me, nuclear power still presents a real and present danger to the environment.

Again, thank you!
Max

By: Anthony J. Gerst

Anthony J. Gerst — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:31:28 +0000

In Revenge of Gaia, Lovelock points out that we do not have the time to fully advance renewables to salvage the planet. He relates that it is his opinion that the only thing available that could help, is a major push towards nuclear power. While expressing concerns that even with this already established and regulated source of energy it was doubtful we come stem the impact of climate change coming at us.

I have not read his recent book. So I’m not going to make any comments about that. However, your article, on a very quick read, sounded as if you were getting most of this from Revenge of Gaia.