Antinuclear

Renewable energy is happening. Nuclear energy is not.

I think that I really ought to change the names of my websites (to Renewable Energy News).  These websites are supposed to reflect the news – what is happening.

Well, nuclear power and uranium markets are  just not happening.  There’s  a sorry sort of 21st Century colonialism going on. The over-developed countries, such as Australia, are trying to rip every resource, such as uranium,  out of the ground in Africa, at the least benefit to the Africans that they can get away with.  With France sending troops in, and Australia pondering on this – it’s a bit like the 19th Century “scramble for Africa”.   Not that the uranium market is actually much good, anyway.

But the over-developed nations are pinning their hopes on selling nuclear reactors to the “developing” world – a colonial sort of version of Not In My Backyard.  For all the hype – not much is actually happening there either. But then perhaps oil-rich, sun- rich United Arab Emirates figure that they might like to have nuclear weapons one day .

What is really happening globally is rapid growth in solar and wind energy, both centralised and decentralised.   Worldwide surge in renewable energy, with costs falling http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/25/worldwide-surge-in-renewable-energy-with-costs-falling/

160 nations to double use of renewable energy http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/19/160-nations-endorse-doubling-of-renewable-energy-irena/

Extraordinary that Australia, with its fawning subservience to America, is slow to pick up on what’s happening there in renewable energy USA: In 2012 49% of new energy capacity was renewable http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/21/usa-in-2012-49-of-new-energy-capacity-was-renewable/

U.S. Establishes Renewable-Energy Zone on Public Land in Arizona http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/19/renewable-energy192000-acres-of-government-owned-land-in-arizona/

While renewable energy grows in USA, Germany – in  a big way, it’s also growing in many less powerful countries, especially in the use of small-scale power.   http://nuclear-news.net/2013/02/09/local-solar-energy-making-a-huge-difference-in-rural-argentina/
 

February 11, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews