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Time for a fresh open thread! (the old one being weighed down by over 1000 comments). The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this blog. [ 55 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/07/03/open-thread-25

Time for a fresh open thread! (the old one being weighed down by over 1000 comments). The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘o…
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Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium-mining state of South Australia (SA). This was followed up by a post on The Conversation by Ben Heard and me, entitled "Royal commission into nuclear will open a world of possibilities". In that article, we speculated on what the NFCRC might conclude. [ 755 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/on-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-roya…

Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium-mining state of South Australia (SA). This was foll…
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I've never liked titles of scientific papers that being with "On the...". It's always struck me as simultaneously pretentious and uninformative. These days I usually try to give the main result in a paper's title, or at least, make it clever, or humorous... (Another irk is when people introduce a speaker with the phrase "Without further ado...". Please.) [ 281 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/04/what-on-the

I’ve never liked titles of scientific papers that being with “On the…[whatever]”. It’s always struck me as simultaneously pretentious and uninformative. These days I u…
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The 6th January 2015. That was the last time I posted an original contribution to Brave New Climate (BNC) -- at least something that wasn't a re-post (e.g., from The Conversation), a guest post, an Open Thread or a side note... In other words, the BNC blog has fallen fallow for well over a year. I think it's about time for a reboot! [ 473 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/27/bnc-3-0

The 6th January 2015. That was the last time I posted an original contribution to Brave New Climate (BNC)  — at least something that wasn’t a re-post (e.g., from The Conversation), a gu…
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The last Open Thread has screamed past 1000 comments, so time for a new one... (And for those who are wondering why there have been so few posts on BNC recently, well... there are reasons. I will post again soon to explain more, and discuss the future directions of this blog/website. Meanwhile, on with the productive discussion!) The Open Thread… [ 106 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/01/open-thread-24/

The last Open Thread has screamed past 1000 comments, so time for a new one… (And for those who are wondering why there have been so few posts on BNC recently, well… there are reasons. …
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Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies. You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. A lot of ink is spilled on wind intermittency, and not necessarily based in data. So I have extracted and analyzed a high resolution dataset of a year’s worth of Australian wind power for a number of interesting properties. [ 2385 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/08/the-capacity-factor-of-wind/

Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies.  You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. A lot of i...
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The last Open Thread is feeling a tad dated, so time for a new one... The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this blog. [ 76 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/25/open-thread-23

The last Open Thread is feeling a tad dated, so time for a new one... The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here —...
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This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series[2], we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic “peak oiler” out of the University of Florence, that uranium supplies are subject to exhaustion, this because, according to Bardi, and a correspondent evoking, if not actually citing, him in this space, extracting meaningful amounts of uranium from seawater, where its mass vastly outstrips the quantities obtained from domestic ores, is too expensive in terms of energy and cost. [ 15234 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-…

This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series[2], we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic “peak...
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This is Part II of the "Sustaining the Wind" series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1[i] of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the element indium in order to build some 15,000,000 wind turbines (at a nominal peak capacity of roughly 900 MW) that would be required to produce annual outputs of 90 exajoules of energy, given the low capacity utilization associated with wind infrastructure, was on the order of 18,000 tons. [ 9368 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-ind…

This is Part II of the "Sustaining the Wind" series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1[i] of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the element ...
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What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous article on BNC by David, on world energy demand and uranium supply, can be read here. Here is Part I. ------------------ [ 6756 more words. ]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/27/sustaining-the-wind-p1

What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous artic...
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Last week I presented at the Australian Academy of Science on 'techno-fixes for climate change'. This talk was part of an AAS series organised by Bryan Gaensler called "Science Fiction becomes Scie...
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Making sense of the Tesla Triumvirate – solar, batteries and electric vehicles

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Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham recently published the book “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” (“Springer Briefs in Energy” series). The Tesla Powerwall is...
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Complaint about misleading Helen Caldicott article in "The Saturday Paper"

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Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Preamble Following a recent article by Helen Caldicott ...
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Less than the sum of its parts: Rethinking “all of the above” clean energy

http://bravenewclimate.com/…/less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts…

Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies.  You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. The fastes...
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Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Many nuclear supporters tend to shy away from overt cri...
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Potential for worldwide displacement of fossil-fuel electricity by nuclear energy in three decades based on extrapolation of regional deployment data

Hot on the heels of my previous collaboration wiith Dr Staffan Qvist (from Uppsala University) on the implications of phasing out nuclear energy in Sweden, I’ve just had published another new open access paper on energy policy, this time in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE. You can read it in full here. Some details: Citation: Qvist S.A. & Brook B.W. [ 528 more words. ]
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Environmental and health impacts of a policy to phase out nuclear power in Sweden

With Dr Staffan Qvist from Uppsala University, I've just had published a new open access paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy. It examines the ramifications of the announced policy by the Swedish Greens Party (who is part of the current coalition government) to phase out nuclear energy in Sweden. Their platform is: "we oppose the construction of new reactors in Sweden, or an increase in the output of existing reactors, and instead want to begin immediately phasing out nuclear power… [ 354 more words. ]
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