Environment & Energy

...can see similar accounts, including one from Wind Power Monthly, which is behind a firewall. (I'm not going to spend money on a news source hyping what I oppose.)

Here's another that's open source:

Germany bets billions on nuclear fusion for energy future

I attended a lecture last Saturday at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on its history, on the 75th anniversary of its founding in a rabbit hutch.

It's this one:

Science On Saturday: Celebrating 75 Years of Powering Possibilities at PPPL

The speaker, the assistant director of the laboratory, made a point that the lab is not called "The Princeton Fusion Laboratory" and I was pleased that, in a change from past discussions where the lab is justified by bad mouthing fission, she spoke positively of fission power, and pointed out that fusion, while worth pursuing if for no other reason than the advancement of science, is exceedingly difficult, not impossible, but exceedingly difficult.

For a politician to bet his country's energy future on a speculative exceedingly difficult form of energy is unconscionable.

Merz acknowledges that the nuclear phase out was a tragic mistake. His policy should be to do whatever is possible to rectify that huge mistake, not talk about pie in the sky stuff.

I will never forgive Merkel by the way. As a trained scientist she must of known it was a mistake but as a pure accommodation with public ignorance she endorsed it. Germany and the world beyond is paying for that, notably in Ukraine, where the war was financed by Russian fossil fuel sales to German antinukes.

50% nuclear is not sustainable. Hell, the French electricity is not sustainable, because it's not 100%