🤓 today i visited the site of australia’s first nuclear power station* — the jervis bay nuclear power plant.

*project cancelled in 1971, in the very early stages of construction

(ironically the lights are solar powered.) Image
geotechnical works were undertaken and an area was cleared just behind the stunning murray’s beach to build the 600MW(e) UK-designer “steam generating heavy water reactor”.

it was proposed in 1969 & supported by PM gorton, but when PM mcmahon succeeded he deferred the project. ImageImage
treasury determined that it would have been more expensive than coal, and after gas was discovered in bass strait, the project cancelled.

the remains of the project host one of australia’s biggest beach car parks and a lovely swamp. #GeekTourism ImageImageImage
great article about this project — including info on its intended role to produce plutonium for weapons — by @nickpmclaren (who i met, coincidentally, at the #BerryWritersFestival today):

abc.net.au/news/2019-08-1… ImageImage

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Oct 6
if you’re commenting on the european energy crisis, make sure you understand this: increased coal & gas generation mainly due to drought & nuclear outages.

(nb. this is the electricity sector, not the entire energy sector.)
i got a lot of hate on 👆 from the usual nuke bros.

yes, of course some of the deficit is due to germany prematurely (and unwisely) shutting down their nukes, but *most* of the nuke deficit this year is from france:

data: ember
this is the *worst* year for nuclear in europe for a long time:
Read 6 tweets
Sep 21
'let's have a sensible discussion about #nuclear'

hmm, sending two scientifically-challenged hacks (i'm being generous) to australia for the 'conservative political action network' conference next month to appear alongside these drongos won't help!

you know you've made it when:
last week @ShellenbergerMD told congress there's no climate emergency & US should increase oil & gas production.

he takes credit for others' achievements, argues using dodgy data, advocates *for* nuclear weapons proliferation, etc.

ie. he's dodgy AF:

drilledpodcast.com/the-worst-poss…
like patrick moore & bjorn lomborg etc, he's found a niche as a professional contrarian.

conservative media lap up his "on behalf of environmentalists everywhere, i would like to formally apologise for the climate scare" schtick.

…and crap like this:

dailysceptic.org/2022/09/15/cli…
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Sep 6
recently i had lunch w/ liberal MP… we discussed decarbonisation — @theage found it newsworthy.

last week i had lunch w/ labor MP… we discussed decarbonisation — @mrjoeaston found it newsworthy.

(lunch w/ an indie and a green next?)

meh. but i must correct joe on 2 things…
this is false @mrjoeaston.

payment of a candidate's campaign expenses is _absolutely_ a donation under victoria's strict campaign finance laws.

any suggestion that i'm flouting the law is both insulting and false.

(the major parties have *massive* loopholes… indies do not.)
this is also false @mrjoeaston.

1. dr ryan did _not_ make any such claim/confession/threat

2. there is no "Holmes a Court Party"

3. i don't speak for dr ryan, nor does she speak for me.
Read 4 tweets
Aug 13
a week ago @parnellpalme wrote an op-ed, which, among many false and nasty comments included this falsehood:

"@Climate200 has already indicated it plans to run teal candidates in the coming Victorian state election."

climate 200 has _not_ indicated any such thing.
C200 has never run a candidate and will never run a candidate.

we _have_ said that we are open to supporting candidates in the coming vic state election, if asked, which is very different.

mcguinness' opinion piece shows she does not understand the movement she writes about.
i have asked her to edit the article — to remove the error — on sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday and yesterday.

no reply.
Read 4 tweets
Jun 5
.@D_LittleproudMP🤥 lied on @InsidersABC this morning.

#CCS has *not* been implemented on a coal power station near him.

last gov't committed $35m to a trial that *might* capture up to 2% of a coal power station's emissions from ~2024 and truck it 100km to injection wells.
this is classic #CCS spin… politicians and industry talk about proposed trials as if they are operational major projects.

proponent's fact sheet here:
glencore.com.au/dam/jcr:82bb4b…
some great research @jommy_tee dug up:

the last gov't gave the project $5m in 2021:

grants.gov.au/Ga/Show/3b90f6…
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May 18
🧵 today i instructed my lawyers to initiate defamation actions against the @dailytelegraph & @DailyMailAU in respect of their outrageous slurs against me.

ftr, i did not compare #JohnHoward to a nazi. the suggestion that that was my intention is disgusting and beneath contempt.
in calling howard the "angel of death", i was quoting a liberal who had described him as such to @KarenMMiddleton published in @SatPaper.

i believe liberal was referring to the biblical figure in exodus, and all reasonable people would understand it so.

i am not a litigious person, and i will not proceed if the articles are promptly taken down and fulsome apologies issued.

but if not, i will vigorously pursue such action — including against others — as is necessary to protect my reputation.
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