[Global Change: 2308] Re: Public Awareness of Energy Issues

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kooiti MASUDA" <masuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
To: "globalchange" <globalchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 6:30 AM
Subject: [Global Change: 2307] Re: Public Awareness of Energy Issues


>
> On Dec. 28, 4:32am, "Don Libby" <dli...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Here is a good book about energy issues that the public should be aware 
>> of:
>> _Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy_ by Gwyenth
>> Cravens, 2007. Knopf
>
> And here is
> Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen
> Nuclear power - the energy balance
> energy insecurity and greenhouse gases
> at http://www.stormsmith.nl/ .
>
> Ko-1 M.
>

Thank you, but the cited article contains a number of questionable 
assumptions and debatable assertions.  The van Leeuwen work is not credible 
in my opinion, based on a reading of this: 
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf11.html

CO2 emissions per kWh from the nuclear life cycle are lower than any other 
fossil fuel alternative, and much lower than fossil fuel, according to 
several credible life cycle analyses.

Germany plans no new nuclear plants and 25 new coal plants (one with 
experimental carbon sequestration) by 2020.  That's a good policy for coal 
miners and anti-nuclear activists, but a bad policy for the global 
atmosphere and climate, in my opinion, based on my reading of the above 
works.  Fortunately, bad policy decisions are reversible.

-dl