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Post Fukushima Disaster; The Fate of Nuclear Energy

By Shehu Khaleel, Electrical Engineer, , March, 20, 2012 - Why the heated attack between the pro-nuclear and pro-renewable energy experts intensifies after the Fukushima incidence? The two groups had been attacking each other for quite a long time. Pro-nuclear group claims that nuclear energy is, and will in the next decades be the cheapest and most reliable sources of power especially in the developed world. While the pro-renewable energy group sites the risk, waste disposal danger and initial high cost of plant development associated with nuclear power as enough reason to end the life of the industry. They also claim that renewable energy guarantee cheaper, sustainable and clean energy with no or less risk to both humanity and the environment. more...
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After the Coal Plants Close, Where Will the U.S. Get Cheap Electricity?

By Mark Morabito, , Crosshair Energy Corporation, February, 16, 2012 - According to ExxonMobil's newest energy report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, "By 2040, worldwide electricity demand will be 80 percent higher than it was in 2010," and "electricity generation will account for more than 40 percent of global energy consumption." more...
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The New Power Mix in Germany -- What Does It Mean For the Rest of Europe?

By Nigel Blackaby, Conference Director, POWER-GEN Europe 2012, PennWell Global Energy Group, February, 15, 2012 - In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe's future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this fusing of interests required more than in Germany, in the light of the government's decision to phase out all nuclear power by 2022. The case for integration is now compelling and is something that an increasing number of countries are going to have to consider. more...
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Is it Time for California to Phase Out Nuclear Power?

By Tam Hunt, President, Community Renewable Solutions, LLC, January, 12, 2012 - Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan's Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). Switzerland has also agreed to a phase out and Japan itself has agreed to phase out much of its nuclear capacity in favor of renewables and natural gas. more...
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Nuclear-Based Electricity and Economic Theory

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , January, 10, 2012 - The purpose of this article is to extend the short paper I presented as part of an energy 'debate' at the recent 'Singapore Energy Week'. What I attempted to do in that talk was to call attention to several issues that were not understood by at least one debater at the 'meeting'. This errand was important, because as Marcel Boiteux -- the eminent French economist who at one time was President of Electricité de France -- once remarked: "In the United States (U.S.) and elsewhere, they have succumbed to the dictatorship of the non-nuclear minority." more...
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Chancellor's 'Atomausstig': Implications of Nuclear Abandonment for German (and European) Economy. Will Renewables Help Out In It?

By Karol Mazur, Student, , November, 23, 2011 - Three weeks ago on Friday night in Hamburg, while having a pint of German beer in world-famous St. Pauli district, I met a friend, Michael, an engineer working for one of Germany's leading onshore windmills producers. After a short while our discussion focused on his work and energy economics in Germany after controversial decision of Chancellor Merkel to abandon the power of the atom. In light of it I would like to attempt to sum up current situation of Germany's energy supply-side market. more...
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Will France Also Play the Nuclear Fool?

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , October, 19, 2011 - Many years ago, although it seems like centuries, I was sitting in a small bar-disco in a town near Stuttgart Germany, talking to an Ivy League type from the same brigade in the U.S. Army as myself, as well as a friend of his who was the son of a former German general, but whose Christian name was definitely American/English. more...
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