Guardian: “Jeremy Leggett among 100 signatories to letter opposing oil firm’s likely influence over university’s climate change studies.” “The veteran environmental campaigners Jonathon Porritt and Jeremy Leggett are among 100 past and present students and staff who are accusing Oxford University of hypocrisy for accepting funding from
Solarcentury
The company I founded in 1998 to design and supply solar energy solutions for the built environment. Solarcentury
Solar Aid
The charity I founded in 2006, with a 5% contribution of Solarcentury profits, to help deliver solar lighting to Africa. Solar Aid
Fast breeders reviewed: is this any basis for supporting nuclear?
July 30, 2012 Nuclear
Fred Pearce writes a good review of fast-breeders, around the decision concerned a GE-Hitachi PRISM reactor of 600 MW to eat the UK’s 120 ton plutonium stockpile within 5 years (i.e. in the late 2020s, after the 10 year licensing and building period). The go-no go decision will be taken by DECC two years from now. His review presents good arguments against, but he remains for. “A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost. I stand by that view.” Threadbare arguments on cost? GE-Hitachi, as he observes, have not even tabled a cost for the PRISM. French reactors have inflated in the last 4 years from £4 billion to £7 billion and counting.