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• Who Are You Going To Believe - The Leader of A Company With an Obligation to Supply Electricity or a Gadfly Like Amory Lovins

  Lloyd Yates, the CEO of Progress Energy, has published a terrific op-ed piece in the Charlotte News-Observer titled Coming clean on coal that clearly explains why his company has chosen to shut down coal fired power plants that supply 30% of its current electricity demand. More importantly, he explains HOW his company will continue to meet the needs of its customers for electricity in the coming years... Posted Dec 05 2009, 12:34 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins, Joe Romm, nuclear versus gas, Soft Energy Path

• Joe Romm Falsely Accuses Bill Gates of Not Acting On Climate Change

  Joe Romm, that predictable purveyor of climate crisis talk made illogical by his strong dislike or disregard for atomic tools, has written a piece for Salon.com titled The heat is on Bill Gates (registration required). The basis premise of the article is that Bill Gates, who is operating a foundation that spends about $3 billion per year addressing the needs of the world's 4 billion poorest people... Posted Mar 08 2009, 10:47 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Bill Gates, Joe Romm, opinion, editorial

• Joe Romm Talks About Frustration in the Climate Change Debate

  Joe Romm at Climate Progress has an interesting point to make about the frustrations of debating people who make stuff up on the fly . It can be quite challenging to be in a situation where you have done your homework, have all of the charts and graphs, and can speak with reasonable fluency about the subject at hand only to be confronted with someone who eloquently spews whatever he or she believes... Posted Jan 25 2009, 04:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Joe Romm

• My apologies to Joe Romm - this time, I agree with him (kind of)

  About a week ago, I posted a link to a discussion about the world's energy situation hosted by The Economist . One of the scheduled featured debaters was Joe Romm . I assumed that he would provide commentary that strongly discouraged the use of nuclear power - that is his normal position. I was wrong and apologize. A couple of days ago, I finally got around to visiting the debate myself. I had... Posted Aug 23 2008, 06:37 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Joe Romm

• Joe Romm - a Lovins disciple - claims efficiency is all we need

  During the past couple of weeks, I have engaged in several discussions with Joe Romm , who, among many other activities, maintains the blog Climate Progress : An Insider's View of Climate Science, Politics and Solutions. If you click on his name and read his Wikipedia entry, you will find that Joseph has a long history of involvement with energy politics and did several years of research with Amory... Posted Aug 09 2008, 04:35 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Joe Romm