Fraud, counterfeiting, bribery, corruption, sabotage, theft, and other criminal activities are rife in global nuclear industry.
… investment in wind and US$149 billion in solar. Investment in renewables was 17 times … nuclear investment of around US$18 billion. Solar In 2020, a record 256 GW of renewable … grids, including 111 GW of wind and 127 GW of solar. There was a net gain of 0.4 GW of …
The latest nuclear power ‘renaissance’ is going in reverse.
… was built more than 100 years ago. Milestones Solar and wind combined have already surpassed … nuclear electricity generation ‒ In 2026, solar PV surpasses nuclear electricity … generation, with the share of wind and solar PV doubling to 25 percent. An estimated …
A ‘youthquake’ of climate activists are coming through strong. Their voices must be heard, and acted upon.
… poured over college textbooks about solar power. She later approached India's … Innovation Foundation to promote the idea of solar-paneled ironing carts for street vendors. The idea was accepted. Today, solar-paneled ironing carts are gaining global …
Dismantling Green Colonialism is topical and timely, with chapters emphasising the greenwashing of settler colonialism in Palestine.
… point is well exemplified by the Ouarzazate Solar power plant in the Sahara Desert of … on an article I had written on Ouarzazate solar power plant in the Positive Energy … Drâa-Tafilalet region, on which the Midelt Solar plant has been built. The movement …
2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. Dr Jim Green reveals the global unravelling of the nuclear dream ...
… and add a few billion for good measure. Solar costs continue to plummet While the … renewables are falling - and in the case of solar PV, plummeting - nuclear power is …
… sources: coal, gas, nuclear and oil. Wind and solar PV are projected to more than double to … accelerating despite the phaseout of wind and solar PV subsidies. In China in 2021, wind (656 terrawatt-hours ‒ TWh), solar (327 TWh) and hydro (1300 TWh) combined …
New reports reveal the cost of a growing, energy-guzzling cryptocurrency mining industry.
… that mining only uses "wasted" energy from solar or wind overproduction. But mining … 24 hours a day, not just when there is excess solar or wind — meaning mining operations …
Just Stop Oil continues to disrupt critical oil supplies for the fifth day, in demand that the UK government end new oil and gas projects across the UK.
… of renewable energy is rapidly falling, and solar costs have dropped globally by 90% since 2009. Wind and solar are now the cheapest sources of new …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… in mid-January 2016, the latest auction of solar energy capacity in India achieved a new … provision of land, transmission and the like, solar tariffs have come down below thermal … is already being outcompeted by wind and solar, which are getting cheaper all the time. …
The global rebirth of nuclear power was meant to be well under way by now, writes Jim Green. But in fact, nuclear's share of world power generation is on a steady long term decline, and new reactors are getting ever harder to build, and finance. The only real growth area is decommissioning, but that too has a problem: where's the money to pay for it?
… or 0.6%. (For comparison, around 100 GW of solar and wind power capacity were built in …
Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible.
… the safest energy option? Safer than wind and solar? To arrive at that conclusion, Brook and …
NASA scientist James Hansen is heading to COP21 in Paris to berate climate campaigners for failing to support 'safe and environmentally-friendly nuclear power', writes Jim Green. But they would gladly support nuclear power if only it really was safe and environment friendly. In fact, it's a very dangerous and hugely expensive distraction from the real climate solutions.
… a further 10% by 2020; while utility-scale solar PV fell two-thirds in cost and is …
'Fast breeder' reactors are promoted by nuclear enthusiasts as the clean, green energy technology of the future, writes Jim Green. But all the evidence tells us they are a catastrophic failure: complex, expensive, unreliable and accident-prone. Is Japan's decision to abandon its Monju reactor the latest nail in the coffin of a dead technology? Or the final stake through its rotten heart?
… complain about the intermittency of wind and solar! A 2010 article in the Bulletin of the …