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May 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So?
Your error, @StanfordEnergy, is in not being able to show why a few more vitrified waste tubes from powering a city the size of Paris for decades is even a bad thing.
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May 28
Just like it would be nice to move past all the stale old anti-nuclear objections, articles making the case so poorly, lacking any "convincing power", should be consigned to history.
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/sma… #auspol Image
(Although, considering how much of its length it devotes to challenges besetting developing countries, this sort of snark isn't the best look) Image
This is a bad "But". Ambition by Australia will potentially yield considerable effective influence in our whole region.

Which is precisely why such ambition mustn't be limited in #CleanEnergy options.

It isn't virtue signalling, it's virtue. Image
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Jan 17
There are no new anti-nuclear arguments. Without the hand-written date & awareness of Australian politics, this @Greens senator's article could almost have been written anytime in the last decade. 1/13
Shall we once again go through them all?
First let's note how "reducing carbon emissions" is immediately forgotten. Rule #1 has always been to avoid connecting nuclear energy & low emissions in the reader's mind. Yet, 2/13
Next, "vast costs of this obsolete and risky technology" - the first three stale arguments, which as always crumble under scrutiny. The costs aren't 'vast' when assessed properly... 3a/13
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Apr 30, 2021
If you read carefully, this number-filled article isn't too different from similar confident predictions we've been seeing for years now.
blog.fluenceenergy.com/solar-storage-… 1/7
To highlight: yes this is the summer duck curve in my home state, but by no means is most or even much of that generation being sponged up by battery storage. 2/7
The world famous Hornsdale Power Reserve "Big Battery" is used for other, different system functions, as studied in detail by @EnergySynapse: informa.com.au/insight/batter… 3/7
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Dec 28, 2019
Do you remember this Guardian headline? theguardian.com/australia-news… Pretty ambitious, right? Pretty obvious? The transition is on track and "inevitable"? 1/6
A lot of folks tweeted this awesome headline. twitter.com/search?q=https… I suggest much fewer searched up the source article & read it carefully. reputex.com/research-insig… 2/6
So, the analysis isn't public but the analysts' article is emphatic about the assumptions that
a) Snowy 2.0 is online in 2025 - a storage option facing headwinds from many influential commentators as well as environmentalists 3/6
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Aug 31, 2019
If you have any interest in#nuclear energy in Australia you've likely heard this capital cost figure cited to prove it'll be too expensive. <thread> 1/7
For example, no one will be surprised to see RenewEconomy leaning heavily on this $16,000/kW number reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-inquir… 2/7
So which nuclear plant costs $16,000 per kW?
We don't know.
AEMO uses a database called GenCost, from CSIRO csiro.au/~/media/News-r…. CSIRO chose to use cost numbers calculated by GHD ghd.com/Modules/News/s… for AEMO. See Page 89 of aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/…. 3/7
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Apr 3, 2019
33 years ago: the prototype of the Integral Fast Reactor demonstrated exactly the kind of intrinsic designed-in safety still demanded by #nuclear energy's loudest critics.
vimeo.com/35261457
inis.iaea.org/collection/NCL…
thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/Plentiful… 1/4
That's safety. Waste? It was designed from the beginning to run on used fuel. It was designed to be the solution to most activist's No. 1 objection to #nuclearenergy. nature.com/articles/48632… 2/4
This type of reactor is estimated to put out well under 1 gram CO₂-equivalent per kilowatt hour (gCO₂e/kWh) over its lifecycle. Compare that to some of today's national grids: electricitymap.org
actinideage.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/mis… 3/4
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