17
Gwyneth Cravens,
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
(New York: Knopf, 2008), 269.
33
Note that the total in this report includes petroleum liquids. The EIA's official statistics on electricity generation show that in 2007, natural gas total generation was 896.5 billion kilowatt-hours. See Energy Information Administration, “Net Generation by Energy Source by Type of Producer,”
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat1p1.html
.
34
Recall that wind gets $23.37 per megawatt-hour, and gas gets $0.25. Gas generated 900 billion kilowatt-hours, and wind generated 31 billion kilowatt-hours.
35
Energy Information Administration, “Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007,” xviii.
Chapter 27
2
Fred Krupp speech at CERAWeek, Houston, Texas, February 12, 2009.
5
Hebert, “Nuclear Waste Won't Be Going to Nevada's Yucca Mountain.”
8
William Tucker,
Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey
(Savage, MD: Bartleby Press, 2008), 345, 352.
11
Vaclav Smil,
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), 172.
16
Gwyneth Cravens,
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
(New York: Knopf, 2008), 265.
17
Swadesh Mahajan, interview with author, October 14, 2009.
20
Martin Avery Snyder and Harold Weitzner, “The Road to Endless Energy,” Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, December 12, 2008.
21
Hans A. Bethe, “The Fusion Hybrid,”
Physics Today
, May 1979, 50.
22
Ed Gerstner, “The Hybrid Returns,”
Nature
, July 2, 2009, 27.
Chapter 28
5
The U.S. Navy doesn't publish actual output data. John Pike of Globalsecurity .org estimates output at about 50,000 horsepower, which equals 37.3 megawatts.
12
Richard A. Muller,
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), 334.
20
International Energy Agency,
World Energy Outlook 2009
, 160.
Chapter 29
1
International Energy Agency,
World Energy Outlook 2008
, 178.