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

[rich]

i find McEwan highly overrated



On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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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