Saturday, January 22, 2011

36th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs --and a Video.

The 36th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs is up at the ANS Nuclear Cafe.

In this Carnival, we learn
  • Zion plant may be sold instead of being decommissioned. (Atomic Insights)
  • Electric cars are only a small pollution-control advance over gasoline engines if they start with electricity from coal. Electric cars will be a great advance if they start with electricity produced in nuclear power plants. (PopAtomic)
  • Popular support for nuclear energy is on the increase in the United States. (ANS Nuclear Cafe)
  • Alvin Weinberg's predictions on energy were almost always correct. In this way, they are very different from Armory Lovins predictions. (Nuclear Green)
  • Dan Yurman's recent predictions that the Chinese would have to slow their rate of nuclear construction were correct. The Chinese are still building a lot of plants. They are just not building 80 GWe in 10 years (Idaho Samizdat)
  • In Canada, concerns about privatization of AECL are taking a back seat. Plans for a new nuclear plant are moving forward. (Canadian Energy Issues)
  • What does the new congress mean for nuclear? It's complicated. (Nuke Power Talk)
  • Gwyneth Cravens is visiting Vermont and giving several talks, including one at the State House in Montpelier. (Yes Vermont Yankee)
  • Uranium extraction from seawater looks promising (Next Big Future)
  • Talking bears are featured in a new video that "paraphrases every conversation I have ever had with an anti-nuclear activist" (Nuclear Fissionary)
The video is excellent, and I share it below. As Dan Yurman describes it in the Carnival:

This video is the perfect vehicle for sending this message and it is all because of monotone. The monotone, unwavering and robotic delivery of the animations inserts a fresh breath of calmness and seeming neutrality to this heated debate.

Come to the Carnival. Learn. Have fun. Watch a video!





2 comments:

Gwyneth Cravens said...

The talking-bears video is great. Do you have a link to it?
Many thanks,
Gwyneth

Meredith Angwin said...

Gwyneth

Two links. Directly to YouTube so you can get embed codes and so forth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFpm9UHX-0&feature=player_embedded

And the original, on Jack Gamble's blog, since he made the video

http://nuclearfissionary.com/2011/01/19/antinuclear-activist-has-an-epiphany/

It is terrific. A big Thank-You to Jack for making this video!

Meredith