When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine
Society & Culture
Nuclear power produces about 18% of all the electricity produced in the US. Power plants have an expected life of around 40 years, and currently 88 of the 96 existing reactors are older than their original life expectancy. Only one nuclear reactor has been put in service since 1998. For all intents and purposes - the nuclear industry is dead.
But it is not. And why is that? Like riding the tiger, once on the nuclear production beast it is hard to get off. Decommissioning a plant can take 60 years and many millions of dollars. Yet many "green" activists remain convinced that nuclear power must remain part of a clean energy future.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the various challenges and complexities of living a sustainable life.
081 - Becoming an Annoying Consumer
020 - Sustaining Optimism
018 - Is the World Sustainable?
015 - Why We Built an Earthship
012 - Making a Solar Generator
011 - Politics of Sustainability
010 - Straw Bale Construction
006 - Solar Energy (harvesting the Sun)
007 - Philosophy of Enough (Voluntary Simplicity)
008 - Living with Zero Utilities
009 - Living in an Age of Instability (You Will be Green)
001 - Living in an Earthship (Greatest Hits Rebroadcast)
005 - The End of the Age of Fossil Fuels (Greatest Hits Rebroadcast)
080 - The Business of Solar
003 - The Economics of Happiness (Greatest Hits Rebroadcast)
079 - Early Solar Pioneers
078 - Fake Meat
077 - Who Revived the Electric Car?
076 - Changing our Relationship with the Land
075 - Where have all the Birds Gone?
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