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Tag: Nuclear

  • What Energy Really Costs in Land: Looking Beyond the Fence Line

    What Energy Really Costs in Land: Looking Beyond the Fence Line

    Why land area only matters when you count all the land that energy really uses Arguments about land use in energy often begin with a photograph and end with a conclusion. A gas-fired power station occupies a compact industrial site. A nuclear station sits within a relatively small, well-defined boundary. A solar farm spreads across…

  • Fossil Fuels, Renewables and Nuclear: Which Really Requires More Mining?

    Fossil Fuels, Renewables and Nuclear: Which Really Requires More Mining?

    Building out renewable infrastructure obviously requires mining and has carbon emissions. It’s the scale of that compared with fossil fuels that matters. The difference is shocking.

  • Nuclear Power Vs. Renewables

    Nuclear Power Vs. Renewables

    While there are many folk (often with dubious motivation) who claim that Renewable Energy Sources can never supply all a nations electricity needs, there is also a rather more sensible discussion on the role of nuclear power in the operation of our grids. The thinking is that nuclear provides a robust, ‘firm’ (i.e. predictable and…

  • Geothermal vs household solar

    Geothermal vs household solar

    A previous article discusses the United Downs geothermal project. This asks why we shouldn’t spend that money on more solar and wind, or more nuclear generation.