David Bergman

David Bergman is a NYC-based architect, designer, writer and professor with a long-standing focus on sustainability. He writes a blog called EcoOptimism and is the author of Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide.

Focusing on Facts: Can We Get All of Our Energy From Renewables?

Posted by David Bergman on February 21, 2013
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View of the PS10 concentrating solar thermal power plant in Spain (Photograph by Greens MPs)

  In my recent post, “The Limited Vision of the Pro-Nuclear Energy Argument,” one of the commenters wrote: “it is a fact that only carbon-based energy and nuclear have a high enough energy density to meet our world’s demands. None of the renewables come close.” I responded, “It is far from ‘fact’ that only carbon-based…

The Limited Vision of the Pro-Nuclear Energy Argument

Posted by David Bergman on February 6, 2013
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Are nukes a viable form of clean energy? Is the need for them inevitable? On Comedy Central’s Colbert Report last week, environmental policy expert Michael Shellenberger advocated for nuclear power as a necessary energy source. His rationale is that energy demand is going to double by 2050, efficiency and conservation notwithstanding, so we really have…