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Building a rad future with nuclear electricity | @isodope
My photo kissing a nuclear waste cask went viral and people had… opinions about it. There was outrage, with many claiming it was dangerous and that I was hurting my future children (lol). Here’s why kissing a nuclear waste cask is actually fine🧵
I kissed a cask (of nuclear waste) and I liked it.
"you can't have solar AND nuclear" is such B.S. Tell me you've never seen a load profile without telling me you've never seen a load profile.
If you need to build "backup generation" when you build wind and solar, how was France able to retire 7 GW of gas and 6 GW of coal?
Mining requirements for clean energy is way lower than for fossil fuels.
It’s true that fossil fuels have enabled an insane level of development, but we now have better options. These options need less destructive mining, reduce air pollution, and mitigate climate change. It’s just human progress.
It’s true that fossil fuels have enabled an insane level of development, but we now have better options. These options need less destructive mining, reduce air pollution, and mitigate climate change. It’s just human progress.
.@SecretaryWright tells it like it is: Climate change is a by-product of human progress—not an existential threat. We do not apologize for American energy; it is the foundation of EVERYTHING! economist.com/by-invitation/…
Disney world in Florida could be power by a few micro reactors.
We need a word for the disappointment felt when realizing someone’s post was written by AI.
“It boggles the modern mind, but that's what a life with low energy consumption looks like: an endless hellscape of tedious chores to accomplish the most basic things.” People don’t understand what a privilege it is to grow up in an energy rich society, and they’re quick to deny…
There is a reality show on HBOMax where people forced to live like 1880s homesteaders and it takes 20 minutes for someone to start crying lol
E-mail sent in March of 2020 explaining what I wanted to accomplish with Isodope.
I led a grassroots effort to keep Diablo Canyon, California's only nuclear power plant, from shutting down. It was supposed to close this year, but now it's staying open, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission just gave it the okay to run for another 20 years.
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It’s funny how the people who believe we can intentionally create hurricanes are the same people who think that unintentional human-caused climate change is impossible.
Excerpt on degrowth from my book Rad Future.
Life in 1776: - heat is such a luxury that Thomas Jefferson can’t write in deep winter bc his ink freezes (one reason perhaps why Independence Day is in July) - nighttime darkness is such a burden that George Washington reportedly spent $15k in today’s dollars on candles every…
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Why is Germany's air quality so much worse than it's neighboring countries?