Nuclear is too expensive. Instead weโll just *check notes* build some artificial islands in the middle of the North Sea and surround them with giant turbines the size of the Eiffel Tower. ๐ค
MEET THE PHOTOVOLTAIC GOATS OF THE GOBI DESERT
The 2.2GW Talatan Solar Park is the second largest solar installation in the world. It also accidentally greened the desert. Before the panels arrived starting 2012, it was a barren landscape, 98.5% desert, and so windy the swept-up
Everyone should watch a video of US aircraft carriers, realize that theyโre floating cities powered entirely by a batch of spicy rocks for a quarter century between refueling, and realize how badly humanity is sandbagging itself by not nuclearmaxxing!
Yooooo ๐ฉ๐ช, I hear you guys might need some energy? Look at how quickly the French were able to decarbonize in response to the oil shocks with a little โ๏ธ magic. Just sayin'
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weโve ever created, the most advanced display weโve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things itโll be used to create.
My tinder date tried to badmouth the COVID relief bill. This was real shit. I had to mobilize the Krugman babysitting co-op analogy. When he tried to change the subject I said "shhh...I'm trying to teach you something."
Well, well. If it isnโt the last three German reactors producing more power than 60+GW of installed capacity in wind. Today.
But hey! Maybe if we overbuild some more it will all work out...
@hikikomorphism
My father asked me if I could develop some anorexia when I was 16 years-old because he thought I was chubs. "Not serious, just mild." Still chubs now TAKE THAT, DAD!
โThe problem is everybody wants to build a Gigafactory but nobody wants to mine.โ
Just had a verrrrrry interesting convo off the record with a banking person with a technical background in mining...
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Isnโt it wild? France and Ontario, just by trying to gain energy independence, accidentally decarbonized in 20 years. Germany has been at the energiewende hammer and tongs for the same amount of times now and still burns lignite.
POWERING THROUGH IT
Taiwan was rocked by quakes this morning and weโve seen building knocked sideways. But Taiwanโs last nuclear power plant is reporting safe and uninterrupted operation.
Taipower Maanshan plant told Liberty Times: Operations continue as normal. No power
Pity poor Germany: shut down its nuclear power plants only to get hooked on Russian gas. Cut off from Russian gas, scrambled to put in floating LNG terminals in record time so they can get freedom gas from the US. And nowโฆ
The new Era of 'How much new
#nuclear
do we need'?
France: We thought 6 was a good start for us. Turns out 14 makes more sense.
This from a country that already has 57 reactors. ๐
#uranium
As somebody who used to work back of house I detest the lavish tipping culture. Wow...loved your meal and feel grateful and generous? Give a 1/4 of the cost of your meal to the person who literally picked it up 15 feet away and put it on your table!
Before you say "but waitstaff
@growing_daniel
Itโs not really so much about the individual priests as the organizational cover-up. If exactly the same number of priests abused but the church was open and upfront and sought transparency and accountability it would be different.
After a year of normality while the world went mad, things are now topsy turvy as Taiwan hits full-on community spread. How did this happen when we were doing so well? Let me explain...
Itโs been genuinely hard to keep up with all the good news coming out of Europe: hereโs just a selectionโฆ
๐ต๐ฑ First nuclear plant gets all-clear from environmental agency.
๐ฎ๐น Italy starts discussion on how to execute nuclear return.
๐ซ๐ท France successfully applies pressure on
When Taiwan was in desperate need for vaccines in 2021, Japan was the first country to come through. When China blocked Taiwanese pineapples Japan stepped up for us too. Farewell Abe-san a part of your legacy will be deepened friendship between Taiwan and Japan.
Dammit! This guy is the WORST! Anti-nuclear, anti-vaccine, anti-fertilizers and pesticides? Why are so many of my fellow Americans a fan? This kind of thinking will only take us backwards.
As president, Iโm going to reverse 80 years of farm policy in this country and end our reliance on industrial meat production, factory farming, and chemical-based agriculture.
#rfkjr
#Kennedy24
Call me petty, but I am LIVING for the fact that every single comment under the Greenpeace article on the German phaseout is pro-nuclear! Beautiful. Click thru to read the whole thing. Add your own if you feel inspired!
Today Taiwan say goodbye to the 2nd reactor of the
#2
Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Guosheng. The 985MW BWR from GE has served Taiwan well for 40 years. But for politics, it could have served for 40 more.
What a tragedyโฆbut also, a farce.๐งต
This is ALL the waste from 46 years of operation at Indian Point. 270 Terawatt hours of low-carbon electricity.
Could have been 20 years more but for idiots and the craven politicians that caved to them.๐ข
Go Greta for recognizing that closing down nuclear in Germany would be an epic mistake! Remember, sheโs only 19. Thereโs a lot of time for her to evolve her thinking.
I talked to one of the top people in greenpeace Taiwan today. I put in the effort because I always found her to be personable and thoughtful online. And she was really nice to me and truly appeared to care about the climate. But when it comes to the subject of nuclear power there
We knew it was coming, and here we go!
๐ฏ๐ตJapan is gonna turn their reactors back on. More than a decade after Fukushima Daiichi, Prime Minister Kishida says they must make "maximum use" of their idled fleet.
Itโs a beautiful day in Taipei and of course, ya girl voted!
Doesnโt matter who the president elect is tomorrow, everyone in Taiwan is a winner. We got to choose our leader and keep them accountable to their promises. The power to lead Taiwan comes from the people, is
'Nuclear uses significantly more water than any other form of energy production .. itโs obvious that nuclear power cannot be presented as โgreenโ when it comes to water use.'
#nuclear
#climate
#energy
This earthquake is yet another reason why Taiwan should NOT monkey around with dismantling Taipower. This earthquake took out power for a lot of people (more than 300,000 households) and here we are like 2 hours after the fact and 70% of them have had power restored.
Taipower,
Itโs incredible how normies are hypnotized by nuclear waste as if itโs kryptonite. But the truth is by the time the concrete cask break down (say a few hundred years), the waste is no longer so *hot*. Can it hurt you? Maybe if you eat it.
When Taiwan suffered the devastating 9/21 quakes of 1999, Turkish rescuers were the first international help to arrive. 23 years later, Team Taiwan is already on the way.
Kindness never forgotten.
@MarkRuffalo
Want to find a goon for big fossil? Look in the mirror Mark! You helped them kill Indian Point Nuclear Power Point. The results sure are a gas gas gas!
German state rattled by Dutch plans to assess construction of 10 new
#nuclear
power plants
โI will do everything in my power to prevent the Netherlands from seeing a new dawn of
#nuclearpower
,โ says Lower Saxony's env min
@OlafLies
#energytransition
โSome universities in Australia simply shut down their mining program.โ
Of course, this is incredibly ironic symptom of how the renewables dream hasnโt been thought all the way through.
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The problem is banks, especially European banks, donโt want to take the โreputational riskโ of being involved in mining projects.
You can get โgreen loansโ for gigafactories, but not for the other side of the supply chain.
In the end it's very unhealthy and infantile to argue about socialism vs capitalism. The questions to ask is "How did they do the thing?" "Did the thing work" "Can we do the thing again?"
In general I would say socialism doesn't work. But my, TVA's Browns Ferry plant works very
Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant is one building containing three powerful reactors.
It makes steady, carbon-free power for 3 million people for the incomprehensibly low production cost of $15 per MWh in 2021.
It was built for an inflation-adjusted 2023-$
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Seriously where are our pro-nuclear leftists? It SHOULD be so compatible with the left โ strong unionized jobs, goes great with government initiatives, helps the disadvantaged by providing cheap, reliable power.
BREAKING:
The new Spanish left-wing government has decided to follow Germany down into the abyss by dismantling all its nuclear power plants.
According to the new coalition government, all 7 nuclear reactors are to be dismantled and replaced by renewable energy.
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@MarulaTsagkari
Degrowth is about denying others your standard of living. You think it's going barefoot and baking your own bread. What if I tell you crafting is so inefficient you're using more energy than if you just got it in the store!
Oh my! The Ontario grid at an absolutely magnificent 14g/kWh today. That's 10GW of CANDU power with capable assist from wind and hydro. Only a tiny sliver of gas.
Some minor skirmishes in the Taiwanese legislature today. The KMT-led coalition has the majority and are in the process of passing some procedural reforms. The DPP hold power in the executive but they are in the minority in the legislature so they stormed the speakers podium. A
A rare TERRIBLE take from Noah. If fission is such a failure as a technology how did France managed to build 56 plants in a 13 year sprint back in the 70s/80s that still provides the country with 75 percent of energy, with plenty to export?๐งต
MY JAW IS DROPPING! This is the Minister of Economic Affairs in Taiwan: โWeโve made the preparations for nuclear life extensionโฆ4th LNG receiving terminal remains a necessity.โ
Minister Wang said โin the face of new public sentiments and a new legislature, the Ministry of
Everything is connected. Why is Taiwan's industrialists finally loud about nuclear now after staying mum in last year's referendum? Because Korea embraced nuclear and EU said it's green. Success anywhere is progress everywhere.
Wow. Elon Musk thinks Taiwan can probably get a โmore lenientโ deal with China than Hong Kong. A โmore palatableโ special administration zone.
Dude needs to learn the lost art of keeping his mouth shut when he doesnโt have any idea what heโs talking about. ๐คฎ
Dear Greenpeace: youโre fond of leaving ice sculptures all over the world to remind the powerful that the planet is melting. So we are also leaving an ice sculpture in front of your headquarters with the letter โGโ to remind you nuclear power is low carbon and we need it!
Remember when California took away net metering for rooftop solar? It was both the right thing to do AND it predictably devastated the rooftop solar market. Guess what happened next?
People started installing solar systems with batteries attached. As
@NatBullard
noted in the
I am vibrating with incandescent rage.
The Summary For Policymakers is a key document produced by the IPCC. Nuclear is mostly suppressed from that despite playing an important role in the full report (3000+ pages).
โSome countriesโฆโ I have my suspicions!
DREAMS COME TRUE! Angelica made it to to the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ญThis is what decarbonization looks like!
The bus trip was more than 5 hours. The tour was too short. But the memories are forever!
Be Spain.
Import record amounts of gas from Russia despite the EUโs economic blockade.
Double down on dismantling all your nuclear power plants.
How does any of this make sense???
Based Yoon Suk Yeol: Every chip foundry will need a 1.3GW reactor because chip manufacturing requires high quality and stable power. โGiving up nuclear means not only losing chipmaking, but other high tech industries.โ
How will Taiwan compete with a nuclear exit by 2025?
Truly sad that this is one of the winners for the 2023 National Geographic Taiwan Photo Contest.
Iโm going to guess this is abandoned solar panels in the Liujia district of Tainan. Congratulations to Lin Yi-Hsuan (ๆๅ็) for the great capture.
The Grohnde nuclear power plant with a capacity of almost 1.4GW is located in German state of Lower Saxony.
In a few days the German gov will force its closure on political grounds and replace it with fossil fuels in the middle of a climate & energy crisis.
#SaveGer6
Celebrating the premature closure of EXISTING nuclear plants is a whole nother level of nuts! Most of the CO2 and monetary cost is incurred in the construction! Is this guy teflon-coated with stupid?
Today, on the last day of 2021, 3 more nuclear reactors will be shut down in ๐ฉ๐ช Germany & in 12 months the last 3
Nuclear energy is expensive, causes CO2 & pollution (e.g. uranium mining), severe accidents & there is not a single repository to store the waste for 1 million years
Degrowth is not an option. It doesn't mean "update your phone less often." It means hungry babies, freezing grannies, people who have nothing but tears in the face of lack.
Abundant energy is the basis of civilization and the bare minimum of comfort that all deserve.
Sometimes, I really wish western climate activists and academics who work on climate policy spent a year or two living in developing countries.
It gives you a perspective and nuance on the energy transition thatโs hard to get from books or attending conferences.
Treating myself to a dreamy glass of Nanaroman Jummai Ginjo from Fukushima -- a fresh and romantic sake that evokes a cool river on a warm summer day.
Was going to save it for a special occasion when I realized tonight IS a special occasion, and each moment is like no other.
Proof right here that one Otaku with a Facebook Group can change the world. meet Huang Shih-shiu, Taiwan's pro-nuclear Final Boss. Thanks to Huang, the odds are good Taiwan's mothballed 4th nuclear plant will be restarted (thread)
France says โNONโ to renewable targets for its own sake. In is frankly insulting and childishly presumptuous of the EU to look at THE MOST DECARBONIZED member of its union and criticize them for not committing to enough renewables.
Up is down. The cart is put before the horse.
โI have to say I changed my mindโ Michael Douglas starred in The China Syndrome and was rabidly anti-nuclear for 40 years, admits that nuclear is a part of the way to solve climate change.
Better late than never!
Michael Douglas, qui avait produit le film โthe China syndromeโ en 1979, aprรจs avoir รฉtรฉ โanti-nuclรฉaire pendant 40 ansโ a changรฉ dโavis, car la prioritรฉ cโest le climat. Bientรดt
@Janefonda
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OMG FaceBook! Itโs my birthday so it surfaced an old photo from LA 7 years ago. I was in on the tail end of my divorcespringa era and just starting to settle down a bit.
You know what? Iโm glad I got divorced young enough to go to LA, glam up and take too many drugs for a while.
All of Taiwanโs solar panels can be replaced by 2 nuclear reactors at one plant.
Solar Taiwan 2022: 4.6% of the grid, from various projects up and down the island.
Nuclear Taiwan 2022: 6.3% of the grid just from Maanshan 1+2, plus the last 3 months of Kuosheng 2โs operation.
Did you know you can just replace nature with solar panels to save the environment?
In this photo is less MW than a single AP1000. Batteries not included.
โWe discovered a way to basically turn plants into little factories for making casein, so you donโt have to get it from a cowโ Genetic engineering FTW!
This tweet is worth translating:
America: new COVID record
England: new COVID record
Japan: new COVID record
China: new lockdown
Taiwan: duck restaurant to hold apology press conference
We hear it all the time: Gas can load-follow. But I think what we donโt hear about as much is the price of that flexibility. I asked a former plant manager of a Combine Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant about exactly happens when a CCGT plant โbacks upโ renewablesโฆ๐งต
Very cool unique joint flag patch that can be worn by US soldiers in Japan and their Japanese counterparts. It's just a small token but the symbolism cannot be more clear.
Nuclear energy is so expensive that ๐น๐ผbuilt six reactors in the 70s and was running on 50% nuclear by the mid 80s. ๐ซ๐ท's Messmer plan also cost less than the Enegiewende and actually worked. Habeck is talking nonsense!
@derJamesJackson
Habeck is talking about the fact that nuclear energy is so expensive, that for decades governments used the majority of their energy infrastructure funding to make NE profitable, instead of research into RE and itโs funding. That was and remains the best argument against Ne
Hey Docโฆ Is it dangerous to stand next to nuclear waste?
Here I am surrounded on all sides by dry casks full of fresh spent nuclear fuel receiving a radiation dose rate 50% lower than I would flying in a commercial airliner.
Pretty simple engineering makes this hazard safe.
"It takes about 100 acres worth of biofuels to generate as much energy as a single acre of solar panels;"
Just an utterly deranged policy that exists for no other reason than rent-seeking.
Business idea: Coffee commuter mug in the shape of a dry storage cask (the fleek ones at Zwilag). Carry around to tell people thatโs the total amount of nuclear spent fuel youโll generate in your lifetime while sipping your coffee.
The same sentiment that dries up investment for mining is also drying up talent.
When he graduated as a mining engineer in 2011, he was part of a class of 50. In recent year, the graduating class size dwindled to 2-3 a year.
No enrollment. Young ppl see mining as โdirty.โ
As an American, a Taiwanese and a human being really Iโm appalled that a monument is going up to โhonorโ Taiwanese aided the Japanese cause in WWII.
I love the special relationship between Taiwan and Japan, but this must NOT extend to any kind of whitewashing of evil.
A new memorial in southern Taiwan has been unveiled to remember the 1,000s of Taiwanese youths who volunteered to help the Japanese war effort during World War II.
Nuclear energy: actually has the potential to completely replace replace fossil fuels, but is culturally "coded" with the fossil fuels team.
Renewables: actually can't deliver a stable grid w/o fossil fuel support. But is anti fossil fuel coded.
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@yestiseye
@maxfawcett
RE's goal is to transition from fossil fuels and there is a legitimate argument to be had on where/ how NP has a role in this transition. But when a large portion of the nuclear lobby is/ was involved with the FF industry, it is legitimate to question their motives.
Are anti-nuclear NGO quiet quitting their agenda? Read this interesting nugget in an excellent opinion piece for the FT by former NRC Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield.