Webinar: Sunday, September 13, 2006, 7:00 PM CT
We are taking the months of July and August off from webinars, but we start the new season off with a fascinating and controversial one (although when examining the data and evidence this book presents, it is in fact straightforward). A discussion about author Mike Conley’s upcoming book “Roadmap to Nowhere: A Reality Check on Renewable Energy“.
“While the dream of an all-renewables future has captured the imagination of millions, the more you dig into the details and pencil it out, the sketchier it seems.
Roadmap to Nowhere is a lively rebuttal to Mark Z Jacobson’s popular 100% WWS (wind-water-solar) ‘roadmap’ for 2050. Mike and his co-author Tim Maloney compare Jacobson’s plan to a Green Nuclear Deal—their equally bold (but entirely feasible) proposal for a national all-nuclear grid.
Comparing these two starkly different plans is an effective way to highlight the pros and cons of nuclear power and renewables, with the differences becoming more pronounced as Mike and Tim scale them to their logical (or illogical) conclusions.
So if you’ve ever wondered how an all-renewables national grid—or anything close to it—could possibly work, or what a nuclear grid would look like, this book is the place to start.
(Spoiler alert—nuclear wins!)”
Mike Conley
Author and screenwriter
“Mike is a writer living in the hills of Echo Park, a mile from downtown Los Angeles and a stone’s throw from Dodger Stadium.
Fascinated by science since he was a child, Mike was drawn to the ingenuity, simplicity and safety of the Molten Salt Reactor.
To learn more, he became a member of the Thorium Energy Alliance, a close-knit community of MSR advocates. His approach to the brainiacs he’s met through the TEA is simple: If they explain their technology to him, he’ll explain it to the world. This book is part of that ongoing project.”