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I smell a Breakthrough Energy Coalition nuclear rat at COP21

a-cat-CANI just read this article  – http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-paris-climate-change-innovation-bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-20151130-story.html

I really do smell a rat here – a nuclear rat.
Whenever I see these weasel words “clean” energy” “low carbon” energy  – “part of the energy mix”  I get that odour.
They used to say “renewable” – but have got  lot more subtle now.   Bill Gates had to go to China to get his small nuclear reactors happening, because the USA’s NRC regulations for licensing are too arduous for him. (Things are slacker in China?)
Gates and Branson want the tax-payer to cough up for their “little nuclear” dream
Gates and Branson
Breakthrough Energy Coalition sounds suspiciously like the Breakthrough Institute, with its long history of delaying action on greenhouse emissions, by touting new gee-whiz Gen IV nuclear reactors.  They suck in well-meaning environmentalists with  a heap of sentimental waffle in their “Ecomodernist Manifesto”.
I’d like to think that they haven’t now managed to suck in the whole COP21.
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Is anyone following this up?

December 1, 2015 - Posted by | Christina's notes

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