Carnival of Nuclear Energy 231

1. Robert Rock [President, Environmentalists for Nuclear, Canada] at Linkedin - Is Germany's Green turning Brown ?

Robert Rock looks at the effect of Germany's Energiewende.

The Energiewende has cost German citizens more than € 100 billion euros. That cost continues to grow. The environment minister believes that it will cost over € 1 trillion euros over the next two decades. In the future, the cost gets even worse for Germany, as Siemens estimated in 2011 that the lifetime cost of the Energiewende through 2050 will be € 4.5 trillion euros.

In addition, to the issue of rising costs which are substantial, Germany is also displacing whole villages to be able to mine more coal. A recent example of this is Proschim in the east.

2. James Conca at Forbes - A Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor In Three Years? Really?

Lockheed Martin claimed a design breakthrough in nuclear fusion reactors that will revolutionize energy production on planet Earth and fit in my garage. I hope so.


Superconducting magnetic coils inside a compact fusion reactor. Source: Lockheed Martin

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