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Norway drills nat gas in Africa — & helps EU block $ for African nat gas plants

Vermont’s powered by hydro — & its Senator blocks $ for hydro in Africa

@AOC @GretaThunberg denounce climate “deniers” — & try to replace nuclear w/ nat gas

Malthus lives 😡 quillette.com/2019/10/05/cha…
“Indian Point [nuclear plant in NY] should have been shut down a long time ago” - @AOC

grabien.com/story.php?id=2…

Indian Point will be replaced by nat gas:

In a “preview of what’s to come... natural gas... ticked upward... wind & solar play lesser role”

lohud.com/story/news/loc…
“@AOC made it clear she wants a ‘transition from’ nuclear while Thunberg attacked nuclear as ‘extremely dangerous, expensive, and time-consuming’ when the science shows the opposite.”

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“The transition to renewables was doomed because modern industrial people, no matter how Romantic they are, do not want to return to pre-modern life.

“The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to.“

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The problem with nuclear is that it doesn’t demand the radical re-making of society, or involve grand fantasies of humankind harmonizing with nature.

All nuclear does is grow wealth & decouple the economy from pollution.

No wonder they hate it so much.

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@AOC Every time anti-nuclear activists succeed in closing nuclear plants, emissions rise

If they close Indian Point, emissions will rise by 7 MMT emissions/year

"New York's electricity grid operator has made clear that 3 nat gas plants will be fired up"

gothamgazette.com/opinion/8866-k…
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All 7 billion of us can enjoy high-energy lives while *reducing* our impact on the environment

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Only nuclear allows for economic growth and radical reductions in air pollution and environmental impact.

Just look at France and Germany

France spends little more than half as much for electricity that is *10 times* less polluting than German electricity
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We had a great talk with Labour Party leader @jeremycorbyn & Chair of All-Party Group on Climate @alexsobel on the importance of nuclear to Britain's energy security given the phase-out of coal, growing reliance on imported nat gas & inherent unreliability of renewables

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@jeremycorbyn @alexsobel Britain currently gets electricity from the following mix of reliable and unreliable sources

Reliable:

Nuclear: 19%
Coal: 5%
Nat gas: 39%
Hydro: 2%
Biomass: 11%
Oil: 1%
Other fossil: 2%

Unreliable

Wind: 17%
Solar: 4%
@jeremycorbyn @alexsobel When you look around the world, it's only those nations that have a significant amount of electricity from nuclear that have decarbonized their electricity grids like Sweden, France, & Switzerland.

Hydro is great for as far as it goes, but Britain is near its max for hydro.
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