Pynchon wrote in his defense...we think they are some kind of friends

[Joseph Tracy]

Just a note on Stewart Brand as as apologist for nuclear power.(from  
guardian article below) Apparently he influenced McEwan though McEwan  
still hopes for a different kind of  solar science.  Stewart Brand  
has written a book pimping for Nuclear power and appeared twice on  
NPR and in the NYT and other places with his bullshit about being  
"convinced" that he had been wrong about nuclear power. He passes  
himself as a science and technology nerd but that is misleading. He  
is a salesman and an ad man, most famous for a catalogue. He now is  
co-founder of a consulting group called GBN  which has nuclear power  
corporate clients like General Electric, Bechtel, Duke Power, Siemens- 
Westinghouse, Fluor, Electric Power Research Institute, Pacific Gas &  
Electric, Southern California Edison, Électricité de France,  
Iberdrola, Vattenfall, Sydkraft (now E.ON Sweden) and Sandia National  
Labratories. Some of these, including GE, Bechtel, Duke Power and  
Westinghouse, are receiving government subsidies to develop the next  
generation of nuclear power plants, according to a Department of  
Energy report.

The information about  these ties are from from FAIR, Fairness and  
Accuracy In Reporting.

No disclosure appears in NYT or NPR about his being on the nuclear  
payroll.


On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> (I have a memory of reading that he lent TRP a book, The Heavenly  
> City of the Eighteenth Eentury Philosophers, but I have never been  
> able to find that online again)
>
> But, what of McEwan here might come out of TRP, or out of  
> conversation with TRP?
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/06/ian-mcewan-solar
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