{"id":44169,"date":"2019-03-04T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44169"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:07:06","slug":"open-energy-4-renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispelling-the-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44169","title":{"rendered":"Open Energy 4: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/open-energy-4-renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispelling-the-myths\/#comment-45910\">Open Energy 4: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.euanmearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Don\u2019t believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables, writes Mark Diesendorf. Clean, safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100% of the world\u2019s electricity needs \u2013 but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to promote the politically powerful but ultimately doomed nuclear industry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The strategies and tactics of RE deniers are very similar to those of climate science deniers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To create uncertainty about the ability of RE to power an industrial society, they bombard decision-makers and the media with negative myths about RE and positive myths about nuclear energy, attempting to turn these myths into conventional wisdom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2016\/apr\/19\/renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispelling-myths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths<\/a>&nbsp;was published in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ecologist<\/a>&nbsp;in April 2016. The Ecologist describes itself as \u201cThe Journal for the Post-Industrial Age\u201d which leaves me a little confused. Diesendorf appears to be promoting 100% renewable energy as the best option for the future of industrial society but promotes this image in a journal that represents the collapse of industrial society as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps I have grown a little sensitive, but I truly resent the use of the term \u201cdenier\u201d to describe scientific skepticism. &nbsp;The connotations with Holocaust Deniers makes this vile language to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a part of what Diesendorf says is true. The tactics deployed by renewable energy skeptics and climate change skeptics are very similar. The common name for these tactics is science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us take a quick look at some of the Myths that Diesendorf wants to dispel. In the spirit of Open Energy threads I am going to resist excessive commentary myself but invite commenters to deconstruct what Diesendorf says. He lists 15 Myths in all, I have only reproduced 5 of those below. Please feel free to reproduce more in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Energy 4: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths Don\u2019t believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables, writes Mark Diesendorf. Clean, safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100% of the world\u2019s electricity needs \u2013 but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11260,24531,1180,578,674],"class_list":["post-44169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy-matters","tag-mark-diesendorf","tag-myths","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44169\/revisions\/44170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}