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“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles”
- Thomas A Edison
Interested in pro-human, pro-progress commentary on science & technology? Read for free >
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“You get books out of the machines”
The best response to degrowth is to share Hans Rosling’s experience of washing machines
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This is huge.
Dominique Reynié: "We found that Gazprom funded environmental NGOs that provided ministers to various governments, such as Belgium, which then advocated abandoning nuclear power".
Gazprom is a Russian-owned gas corporation.
Less nuclear = more gas.
Dominique Reynié : "On a retrouvé des financements de Gazprom en particulier dans des ONG écologistes qui ont fourni des ministres à certains pays d'Europe comme la Belgique et qui ensuite sont embarqués dans une sorte de retour d'ascenseur en défendant la sortie du
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@GretaThunberg
“Follow the science”
You’re right on gas, but utterly wrong on nuclear. And this anti-clean energy lobbying is doing the planet more harm than good. Nuclear saves lives.
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I want to know how these people think they will survive if we stop using energy altogether
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📂 Documents
└📁 Activism
└📁 Greenpeace
└📁 Anti-nuclear science
└⚠️ This folder is empty
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Germany’s nuclear phaseout has caused an unnecessary 36.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, plus an extra 1,142 deaths per year from air pollution >
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Absolute shame on Greenpeace for using the Ukrainian flag this way, when Ukraine is FOR nuclear power.
Greenpeace’s activism is the reason countries like Germany are so dependent on Russian fossil fuels, thereby funding Putin’s war. 🗑
One day left before the vote against
#nuclear
#EUTaxonomy
@CHansenEU
@CharlesGoerens
@MetzTilly
@MarcAngel_lu
@iwiseler
@MonicaSemedoLux
@Greenpeace_Lux
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In 1974, due to the oil crisis, French PM Pierre Messmer instigated a plan to build nuclear power plants en masse.
There was a saying: “In France, we do not have oil, but we do have ideas.”
An idea: treat nuclear power plants as national monuments: protect them & build more.
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Here for this energy.
In response to German complaints about nuclear energy, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said:
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This is fantastic news.
99% of people in India have access to electricity today.
This has increased from only 68% in 2005, when I last visited family in rural Punjab. They did not have electricity in the village then.
Well done India 🇮🇳
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The European Parliament has supported the inclusion of nuclear in taxonomy!! A win for science!!! 💥
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One of the reasons I like nuclear energy is its small land footprint.
This video shows the amount of land required by the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland compared with wind power.
Data visualisation by
@Klimavenner
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I thought I'd be more clear about this since people have been doubting my story. Is it so unbelievable that someone can change their mind based on evidence?
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We have a message for
@Greenpeace
Less nuclear = more fossil fuels. Stop protesting clean energy!
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China is planning at least 150 new nuclear reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.
This is the most ambitious climate action I’ve seen.
Definitely puts an end to finger-pointing at China over emissions.
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“I’ll be back!” Hopefully this will be true one day. Today, the cooling towers at the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant were blown up. A cautionary tale of choosing fear mongering over science. 🇩🇪
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@elonmusk
Massive Tolkien fan here, have read most his works & speak some Elvish. & I disagree. RoP was made with Tolkien estate & is true to his vision. It was never going to please pedantic fans, adaptations rarely will (& nor did the films).RoP continues the essence of Tolkien’s beliefs
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Technology is the only thing that has ever eliminated poverty.
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New MIT study finds that:
- Closing nuclear power plants leads to thousands of deaths from air pollution
- Black people are disproportionately affected by the increased pollution
- More people die even when the power plants are replaced by ‘renewables’
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In The Economist: German energy policy killed more people than Covid-19 last winter.
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A strong move for Europe right now would be to reopen its prematurely shut nuclear power plants.
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Hans Rosling on how washing machines liberate women from hours of hard, time consuming labour
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Poland is phasing out coal & going nuclear 🇵🇱 🎉
Poland has issued an environmental permit for the country's first nuclear power plant. The climate minister is in favour of the transition. The 6 planned reactors will be enough to power ~8 million homes.
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France refuses to bow to pressure to invest in more wind and solar when they already have one of the cleanest electricity grids in the world 🇫🇷
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This article is false. It states that this is due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it’s not. This is actually the consequence of Energiewende - Germany’s fantasy of shutting down nuclear power plants to rely on only solar and wind power.
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I fully support this idea ☕️
Lets put cup handles on nuclear cooling towers so people remember that isn't smoke, it's steam...
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“We had the solution [nuclear power] and the environmental movement, to be honest, just derailed it. And what they did was so destructive, because by now we would have 10,000 nuclear reactors built around the world.”
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Tell me again how nuclear advocates are the shills, and how the nuclear industry is so evil.
The fossil fuel industry has always known that nuclear power can truly displace them. They have led a strong campaign against nuclear, which greens around the world have fallen for.
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Germany just voted to restart their coal-fired power plants, but won’t restart their nuclear plants 🤡
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Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, is grossly misinformed about nuclear energy and is spreading misinformation about it. He also says he’s keen to debate it. I challenged him to a debate live on Sky News Australia. Will he do it? >
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People like to finger-point at China & India over their emissions but they in fact have long-terms plans to build clean energy. Meanwhile in much of the West we are only just realising the importance of energy security & the value of nuclear energy.
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Energiewende, or “energy turnaround”, was Germany’s plan to run on only renewable energy by 2038. Integral to this was complete closure of nuclear energy.
Energiewende has failed; Germany is missing its own climate targets. This is not just due to the invasion of Ukraine.🪡
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Greenpeace: “No cost is too high to tackle the climate emergency”
Also Greenpeace: “That cost is too high because we don’t like nuclear energy”
So many lies in their tweet here 🤡
@spikebrehm
@hoverkraft
@emergencyreact
Nuclear power won't tackle climate change, he build times are way too long and the costs simply can't compete with renewables & energy efficiency which are both far faster & cheaper Blatant example of nuclear reality = Flammanville
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I am a
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⚪️ woman
🔘 concerned citizen who is worried about climate change
Looking for a
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🔘 green group that doesn't protest against nuclear power and actually wants evidence-based action
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Amazing news:
🇫🇮 Nuclear power helps bring down electricity prices by 75% in Finland, thanks to Olkiluoto 3.
🇯🇲 Jamaica prepares to make nuclear part of its energy mix.
🇰🇷 🇮🇩 South Korea and Indonesia plan to discuss ways to boost cooperation on nuclear power generation.
🎉
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Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 1 in 5 people worldwide.
If you’re against nuclear energy, your fears are misplaced.
Nuclear saves lives.
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Germany, once known for its engineering prowess, tried to replace all baseload power generation with wind and solar power, and “now has some of the highest prices for electricity in the world”.
“As a result, the entire German economy is in the doldrums.”
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@sanjanacurtis
I had to give up going to yoga classes because instructors kept pushing their ideology & asking for insights because something something yoga is in Indian blood. Was once told by a yoga teacher that Western culture has colonised my mind because I don’t believe in chakras 🙃
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Yet the nuclear power plants remain shut down. Ideological madness
Germany will bring several mothballed coal plants back to the market this winter to ensure that Europe’s largest economy can keep the lights on
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“We cannot simultaneously quit nuclear energy and coal.”
In 2014 the German federal minister wrote to the Swedish PM admitting to Germany’s continued need for coal because they were phasing out nuclear energy, & begging Sweden to continue investing in coal.
Klimakrimineller 🇩🇪
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But at least they shut down all their nuclear power plants 🤷🏽♀️
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Japan has overcome ideology & fear in favour of reason & science 🎉 They’re turning their reactors back on!
Japan has 54 reactors in total. 10 reactors are actively producing electricity, & this number will go up to 17 by summer 2023.
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⚡️ Every cask in the Sizewell B Dry Fuel Store has made 4 billion KWh of zero carbon electricity.
🏡 That’s enough to run nearly 1.3 million homes for a year.
🫂 Nuclear waste (spent fuel) is stored in these concrete casks, which shield radiation. So they’re good enough to hug!
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Germany + close down nuclear power plants = enter a recession.
Who knew energy was so important? 🤡
“Germany's renowned manufacturing economy will not be able to return to its previous dominant position without abundant baseload power.”
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Well done India 🇮🇳
The first Indian-designed nuclear reactor has begun commercial operation at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, 3yrs after reaching criticality.
KAAP-3 is a 700MWe pressurised heavy water reactor.
16 more reactors will be built by 2031.
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“Adding back in 3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year to the Swiss grid will help with looming electricity shortages driven by constrained supplies of fossil fuels.”
Good move, 🇨🇭. Now build more!
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Nuclear waste is well stored, well managed and has never harmed anyone.
But let’s not forget about all that fossil fuel waste that we are storing *directly in our planet’s atmosphere*
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Australia is the only G20 country with a ban on nuclear energy. But they have nuclear-powered submarines & are developing hypersonic missiles (as part of the AUKUS program). Therefore Australia is not actually anti-nuclear. Why not lift the ban on clean energy? 🇦🇺
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Professor on the panel who argued for solar: nuclear cannot be built quickly enough to decarbonise. It cannot be done in under 20 years anywhere in the world, and (etc)
Me: Actually, in France…
Professor: Thank you for that Zion, I didn’t know. You’ve changed my mind.
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The plot thickens.
The Belgian Minister of Energy, Tinne Van der Straeten, who has argued that replacing nuclear power with gas doesn’t increase emissions, previously worked for the law firm that defended Gazprom’s interests.
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Is there a German word for when you spend a few minutes considering how to recycle a tea bag when meanwhile the country just closed nuclear reactors losing 32.7bn kilowatt hrs of low-carbon electricity which supplied over 10 million German homes & saved 30 million tons CO2 a year
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@sanjanacurtis
Another told me that “Africans and Indians have the solutions to the world’s problems”.
I could go on.
(All of the instructors were white women)
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“I’m not crawling back to big electricity! From now on, the Simpsons are living…. intermittently.” - Homer Simpson
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Degrowth & living off the land
What’s something people romanticize but it’s actually horrible?
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Italy is planning to reintroduce nuclear energy 35 years after the country shut down its last reactor 🇮🇹
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“It’s a contradiction to massively import French nuclear energy while rejecting every piece of EU legislation that recognises the value of nuclear as a low-carbon energy source.”
Well said.
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Embrace nuclear power.
Have you got an important message/life wisdom for the younger generation?
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Waiting for Germany to announce that they’re now shutting down all their dams
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If you keep imagining awful scenarios of what *might* happen at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, remember that meanwhile ~115,000 tonnes of methane have *already* been released by Nord Stream 2 — equivalent to the annual emissions from 2 million cars. Adjust your concerns 💥
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Finland has the world’s only pro nuclear Green Party, & Finnish Greenpeace has stopped protesting nuclear energy.
Is media literacy built upon critical thinking to thank for this? We should learn from the Finnish approach to combating misinformation.
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