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Mike Shellenberger
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Ohio nuclear plants are saved!

dispatch.com/business/20190…
Ohio nuclear plants provide 8x more electricity than the state's solar and wind combined
It would have cost $25 billion for Ohio to replace its nuclear plants with solar panels and $22 billion to replace them with wind turbines
Replacing Ohio's nuclear plants with solar panels would have required 300 times more land while replacing them with wind turbines would have required 2,600 times more land.
Environmental Progress has actively fought to save Ohio's nuclear plants since 2016, conducting research, sending open letters & testifying four times in the legislature

Congratulations to the people of Ohio for their victory & thanks to all who helped!

environmentalprogress.org/ohio
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
1. Three and a half years ago I founded Environmental Progress with the immodest goal of lifting all humans out of poverty while protecting the natural environment.

I did so because talking about a better world isn't enough. We also need to act to create one.
2. Since then, EP & our allies have built a rapidly growing movement that is saving and growing nuclear

On Sunday, October 20, EP and our allies will build on our past success by organizing "Stand Up for Nuclear" events in cities around the world

standupfornuclear.org
3. Then, last week, as we were launching Stand Up, we were horrified to learn that the man suspected of killing 22 people in El Paso did so in the name of saving the environment.
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
- German economy will soon be in recession

- Just one-third of available wind capacity bought at auction

- 15,800MW wind blocked in courts

Anyone seriously believe Germany will spend $3.8 *trillion* to increase solar/wind 3x-5x by 2050?

The renewables revolution is over
German wind industry is over

Only 35 (net new) turbines added in 2019 — lowest level in 20 years — down 82% since 2018

“Wind industry says regulatory difficulties & lawsuits threaten not only turbine manufacturers but also Germany's renewable expansion“

cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-…
Wind industry in Germany is crashing:

Wind bids have fallen from 71% percent in February to now just above 30%....

15,800 MW of onshore wind being blocked...

Wind industry lost 26,000 jobs in one year...

Industry crisis meeting in September”

cleanenergywire.org/news/low-aucti…
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Nuclear is our best source of energy & yet it's under attack everywhere

Enough is enough. On Oct 20, 2019, pro-nuclear people will "Stand Up for Nuclear" in dozens of cities around the world

Will you help make history?

Sign up today — & please share!

standupfornuclear.org
Momentum is on our side. In just three years the pro-nuclear movement has saved nuclear plants in Illinois, New York, South Korea, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Ohio. And we are on the cusp of victories in Belgium, Taiwan, France and Netherland

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Just look at France & Germany

Nuclear-heavy French electricity produces 10% of the pollution at nearly half the price as renewables-heavy German electricity

By 2020, Germany will have spent $580B to increase electricity prices 50% without significantly reducing emissions
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Eloy Sanz
@elmanyana
What does the IPCC say about #nuclear energy? ☢️
In this thread, I will try to summarize in a simple, complete and objective way ALL the points risen by the @IPCC_CH 🇺🇳 about this #energy source in its latest report: “Global Warming of 1.5ºC”🌍 Surprises are assured...👇🏽
Let's start with some background. Why do we talk about 1.5?
In the Paris Agreement at the end of 2015, 195 countries agreed to hold the average temperature increase below 2°C and to make efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It was a major diplomatic and environmental achievement. 🎆👏🏽
The IPCC was asked for a report on the effects of global warming of 1.5°C and the possible pathways that would avoid exceeding this threshold. The effort was huge: 224 authors reviewed more than 6,000 scientific articles and more than 42,000 comments from expert reviewers.
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Doug Parr
@doug_parr
HEALTH WARNING: THREAD

Here we go again on new #nuclear power...

Last night, when most sensible people were having an evening's rest, a shambolic piece of policy was published

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Here's the critical para

And that's all you're going to get as justification for major energy system choices, which will cost billions of ££ and commit UK to infrastructure legacy for decades

(in fact given nuke waste, hundreds of thousands of years)
What's being proposed is best explained here - the only coverage I see of this government paper this morning

The point of these proposals is to make it easier for investors to build #nuclear by throwing lots of risk onto the energy bill payer

ft.com/content/e2cf07…
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Eric
@spirilis
@EricHolthaus Now let's talk about solutions. First of all, slow the bleeding. QUIT CLOSING #NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. Oyster Creek shutting down is like taking a baseball bat to over 5 Ivanpah solar plants; it produced ~5400 GWh zero-GHG per year vs Ivanpah's 990 GWh.
@EricHolthaus The replacement power isn't coming from solar and wind, guys. It's coming from natural gas and coal. Solar and wind can't compete with the kind of reliable capacity factor Oyster Creek delivered 24/7.
@EricHolthaus #nuclear power stations that are "unprofitable" are largely so because of cheap natural gas + renewables forcing nuke operators to deal with negative electricity prices. atomicinsights.com/why-cant-exist… NG won't be cheap forever, but #climatechange will continue getting worse.
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JesseJenkins
@JesseJenkins
With legislation committing California to 100% carbon-free electricity sitting on Gov. Brown’s desk, I wanted to share a timely new peer-reviewed article out today in the journal, @Joule_CP: cell.com/joule/fulltext…
In the paper, @nsepulvedam, @FdeSisternes, Prof. Richard Lester and I use detailed power system modeling to identify strategies that lower the costs and increase the odds of reaching a zero-carbon electricity grid. Check out MIT News coverage of the paper: technologyreview.com/s/611987/how-c…
After ~1,000 cases covering possible future tech cost, regional diffs in renewables quality & demand, and different limits on CO2, our study consistently demonstrates the best way to zero out electricity emissions is to deploy a balanced mix of low-carbon electricity sources.
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JesseJenkins
@JesseJenkins
I was about to head offline for 2 weeks, but I need to respond to this new paper from @ppchef before I go on whether #nuclear can operate flexibly. By coincidence, I just had a peer-reviewed article on this very subject accepted by Applied Energy by today! So here's a thread...
In this new "discussion paper," energy journalist @PPchef takes great pains to demonstrate that nuclear power is too inflexible to pair well with wind & solar in a "decarbonized energy system" & thus must be discarded "to make room" for more #wind & #solar publications.iass-potsdam.de/pubman/item/es…
I'm going to defer technical discussion of whether nuclear plants (old and new) can ramp or change output to match fluctuations in net demand and contribute to system reliability/flexibility until my paper is released (short answer: they certainly can if doing so is valuable)...
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JesseJenkins
@JesseJenkins
Six #nuclear reactors closed since 2013. By my count, up to 23 more reactors may retire w/o policy or market conditions improving: 21.6 GW = ~1/5th of US fleet, 4% of US #electricity--and crucially, 12% of emissions-free generation.

So what's killing nuclear power in the U.S.?
In a new @MIT CEEPR paper -- 1 part #energy #economics & 1 part film noir murder mystery! -- I provide the 1st empirical estimates of what's driving down #electricity market prices & killing profitability of 19 #nuclear power plants across @pjminterconnect ceepr.mit.edu/publications/w…
You can read a short policy brief summarizing the paper & key conclusions @MIT CEEPR here: ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2…

Abstract & paper here: ceepr.mit.edu/publications/w…

Slides presented at #ASSA2018 here: dropbox.com/s/b6192hrvn331…
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