There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Hosted by @Dr_Keefer.
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🚨 This is your reminder that if you help a nuclear plant run just one hour extra it equals offsetting all the emissions in your entire life.
Congratulations to the heros of California for saving Diablo Canyon! 🥳💪
Breaking🚨
Commissioners from the @californiapuc voted 3-0 to extend the life of our state's last nuclear plant, after hearing public comments at this morning's hearing.
Although it's only for the additional 5 years, this decision sends a signal to the rest of the world watching - nuclear energy is VITAL to a reliable, clean energy system.
Cheers to the advocates who called in and held the line. We live to fight another day.
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Thrilled to have been joined by Charles Oppenheimer @choppen5 for a soon to be released @DecoupleMedia episode about his grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer and his organization the Oppenheimer Project.
Wait for it!
In the meantime watch the movie! It was awesome!
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All those folks clamoring for transmission lines from Quebec could have a pleasant surprise on the other end of those wires.
Maybe we could just build the reactors here in USA instead?
CBC: Hydro-Québec mulls reviving province's nuclear reactor, 10 years after shutdown
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
A remarkable point from @JigarShahDC: In offshore wind, developers like Orsted specializes in development. They don’t make the turbines, they are not the local utility. They can concentrate on development.
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Interestingly, many offshore wind developers grew from utilities. I’m thinking of RWE, Iberdrola and EDF, all are mega utilities at home but operate as pure play offshore wind developers in markets like Taiwan.
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AMERICAN ATLAS: If Oppenheimer was the American Prometheus, you might describe Hyman G. Rickover as the American Atlas.
He carried the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program on his shoulders AND ushered in the age of the Peaceful Atom.
Let’s rewind:
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It’s frustrating that even if somehow we got another Rickover, it’s hard to tell how effective he would be.
In the intervening decades since Nautilus and Shippingport, regulation has proliferated to an unimaginable degree.
They’re getting the band together again! Yes…Korea and UAE are talking about going back to build Barakah Unit 5&6! What a great occasion to bring out our thread about how the first 4 units got done! (BTW typo in first tweet…it’s 5,380MW!)🤩
In the latest Decouple pod, @jbkrell gives us part 2 of his deep-dive on 🇺🇸⚛️, with a lot more info on the AP1000 and why America needs to build MORE while that supply chain is hot!
youtube.com/watch?v=X485kL07…
