Acknowledgements and Inspirations
Web Sites
http://www.atomicinsights.blogspot.com/ - Rod Adams
http://bravenewclimate.com/ Professor Barry Brook holds the Foundation Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change and is Director of Climate Science at The Environment Institute, University of Adelaide.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ Dr. James E. Hansen, Columbia University, Armstrong Hall, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA
http://www.truthaboutenergy.com/ Truth About Energy - Don Lutz, P.Eng.
http://djysrv.blogspot.com/ Idaho Samizdat Blog - Dan Yurman
http://pebblebedreactor.blogspot.com/ - Dr. Robert Hargraves
http://www.radiationandreason.com/
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/ "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION " Free web book by Professor Emeritus Bernard L. Cohen, University of Pittsburgh, Published by Plenum Press, 1990 - One of the all-time top nuclear physicists.
Books
Melvin J. Visser
ISBN-10: 1453627030 ISBN-13: 978-1453627037
The Climate Trap goes deeply into Earth's history,
10,000 times further back than the ice core, to determine why Earth suddenly
heats up after it slowly freezes and what Earth's built-in freeze protection
system will do when Earth is gently warmed.
www.ColdClearAndDeadly.com Unraveling a toxic legacy. Melvin J. Visser, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 978-0-87013-802-7
Cold, Clear, and Deadly is both a mystery and the story of the evolution of its author: from a chemical and bioprocess scientist to the vice president in charge of a major company's corporate environmental division; to engaging in international research and travel to discover the source of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in cold northern waters ranging from the Great Lakes to the Arctic.
http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=3156
Power to Save the World The Truth About Nuclear Energy and Our Changing Climate. Gwyneth Cravens, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-26656-9 (0-307-26656-7)
Wormwood
Forest A Natural History of Chernobyl.
"Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy." Nobel laureate George Olah, PhD, Alain Goeppert, PhD, G.K. Surya Prakash, PhD. Intended for the general public, it's an easy-for-anyone-to-read book sorting all energy forms out and describing an energy future that's reasonable and attainable. One of the most important books ever written about our energy future. People involved with any aspect of energy or energy investing ignore it at their peril.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527312757.html
"A serious but not ponderous book about Nuclear Energy." Walter Scheider, PhD. Again, an easy-to-read high-school level text describing how nuclear energy works. Gives the vague impression he doesn't understand pebble beds. http://www.cavendishscience.org/bks/shopcart/shop00x.htm
The Bottomless Well
(The twilight of fuel, the virtue of waste, and why we will never
run out of energy.) by Peter W. Huber & Mark P. Mills
The Prize Daniel Yergin http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/0671799320
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html The Discovery of Global Warming
http://prescriptionfortheplanet.com/ Tom Blees
http://www.BeyondFossilFools.com/ by Joe Shuster
Bibliography
(2) "The scientific method requires that we keep an open mind and change our conclusions when new evidence indicates that we should. The new evidence affecting the nuclear debate is climate change, specifically the urgency of moving beyond fossil fuels to carbon-free energy sources. We need an urgent, substantial research and development program on fourth-generation nuclear power, so that we have at least one viable option in the likely event that efficiency and renewables cannot provide all needed energy.
A phase-out of coal emissions in the West can proceed promptly on the basis of efficiency, renewables, third-generation nuclear power, and possibly a contribution from carbon capture and storage - although it also requires a price on carbon emissions. A phase-out of coal emissions in China and India almost certainly requires a cost-competitive alternative to coal.
One reason for urgent
development of fourth-generation nuclear power is the possibility of
producing a design for a modular reactor, which would reduce costs if built
in large number. It is conceivable that next-generation nuclear power
might begin to be broadly deployed in China or India as early as the 2020s.
Deployment would be soonest if the United States would cooperate with these
nations and treat this as a mater of urgency. If you do not believe that
such rapid development is feasible, you should read some of the stories
about the Manhattan Project."
-- Dr. James Hansen, "Storms of my Grandchildren," 2009, page
204.
Dr. Hansen may be unaware the Russians (Oops, another Sputnik déjà vu moment.) have been running - since 1973 - the "fourth-generation" reactors Dr. Hansen is proposing we set up a "Manhattan Project" to develop. We also had one, the Integral Fast Reactor, but Clinton killed it in 1994. The newest, largest, and most advanced of this family of nuclear boilers, the BN-800, is currently under construction, and scheduled to go on line in 2012. The BN-800 has the potential to run "Closed Cycle," consuming its own nuclear waste, thereby providing an over-20 year power run on a single load of fuel.