Life’s Essentials: Everything Depends on Carbon Dioxide Gas

Quiz a teenager on photosynthesis and you’ll be met with blank looks. Ask them about the greatest threat to humanity and they’ll hit you with the evils of ‘carbon pollution’. Try getting them to define what they mean by ‘carbon’, and you’ll find they have no idea that the villain of their nightmares is really … Continue reading Life’s Essentials: Everything Depends on Carbon Dioxide Gas

America & Canada Get Serious & Go Full-Steam Ahead With Nuclear Renaissance

Nuclear power’s timely renaissance is being led by Canada and the US, with plenty of others following suit. Any country that’s serious about reliable and affordable electricity is getting serious about nuclear power. Britain is crab-walking away from its offshore wind power disaster, with its government recently announcing plans to pump up nuclear power generation, … Continue reading America & Canada Get Serious & Go Full-Steam Ahead With Nuclear Renaissance

Nuclear Renaissance Heralds Immortal Age of Safe, Reliable & Affordable Power

Nuclear power isn’t expensive: the nuclear-powered French pay around half what wind and solar-powered Danes and Germans do (see above). And the French don’t suffer the power rationing and blackouts their German neighbours do, when the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. Indeed, it’s nuclear power from France and coal-fired power from Poland that … Continue reading Nuclear Renaissance Heralds Immortal Age of Safe, Reliable & Affordable Power