Articles by
Charles Komanoff
Why “Official” Nuclear Plant Cost Estimates Are Like Campaign Promises
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Charles Komanoff
I dutifully opened up Porter’s column and was quickly appalled. . .
The column fails the single most critical precept in nuclear economics: don’t confuse promise with performance. I made this point in 1979, a month before the Three Mile Island reactor accident, in a review of a book that plumbed that very theme.
Anti-wind now not just for NIMBY’s
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Charles Komanoff
Opposition to wind power used to be the province of NIMBY’s who quailed at the supposed intrusion into their viewsheds and soundsheds. No more. Wind power is big — its share of U.S. electricity reached 1.3% last year — and getting bigger fast enough to alarm the Far Right and other feeders at the trough of coal and nuclear. . .
Wind Power’s Displacement of Fossil Fuels by Charles Komanoff
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Charles Komanoff
[W]hen wind turbines are operated as parts of an interconnected grid for which the dominant share of energy is provided by generators burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), wind power generation displaces fossil fuel use at a nearly 1-for-1 rate. . .
Wind power’s benefits outweigh risk to scenery by Charles Komanoff
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Charles Komanoff
If, by accepting a modest, largely aesthetic change in the landscape, we can heal the earth to this great extent, how in conscience can we not do so? . .
