1. Private costs: those types of opportunity costs that are accrued by the market player who produces the good
2. External costs: the costs arising from human activity that are not accounted for by the market player causing the externality.
Oct 29, 2019 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
Estimated Mortality in Japan caused by the Geophysical, Psychological, Social & Economic Disaster in Fukushima
1. Earthquake & Tsunami 2. Radiation Exposure 3. Evacuation Procedures 4. Air Pollution 5. Electricity Price 6. Visual Summary 7. References
1. Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
• Date: 11 March 2011
• Richter intensity: 9.0
• Duration: 6 min
• Depth: 24.4 km
• Epicentre: 130 km east of Sendai City.
• Waves Height: up to 14 m
• Mortality: 15,898 (1,614 in Fukushima)
Sources: from [1] to [7]
Oct 8, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Potentials, Costs and Environmental Assessment of Switzerland Power Generation Technologies
This might be a very powerful moral principle, ideological premise or even a sacred dogma, but I honestly find very hard to argue that it's a techno-scientifically informed conclusion of a logically consistent ethical argument.
• Normal Operation
• Severe Accidents
• Terrorist Threat
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The goals of sustainability include minimization of power systems' negative health impacts due to
• emissions of pollutants from the normal operation of power plants and the associated fuel cycles
• accidents
thus contributing to increased mortality and morbidity.
Sep 19, 2019 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Life cycle assessment demonstrates environmental co-benefits and trade- offs of low-carbon electricity supply options
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Electricity production is the most important contributor to anthropogenic climate change (25% of GHG emissions in 2010).
A stabilization of the global temperature can only be achieved when CO2 emissions from electricity production are radically reduced and eventually go to zero.
Sep 15, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
External Costs of Energy : How
Much Is Clean Energy Worth ?
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Air pollution causes significant damage to human health, flora and fauna, agriculture, and materials. The damage costs are said to be external if they are external to the market. Here you can find the damage cost per kg of emitted pollutant.
Sep 15, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Power Generation and Human Health
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Contaminants emitted over the electricity life cycle can have
• short-term effects: those that occur in the days and weeks immediately following exposure (e.g. respiratory impacts)
• long-term effects: typically occur at lower levels over time (e.g. cancer)
Sep 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
With the short time slot available to me, I asked one of Italy's most famous climatologists (environmentalist & tv personality) about the role that nuclear could play in decarbonising the🇮🇹 (and 🇪🇺) power sector mentioning data from @IPCC_CH, UNSCEAR, @IEA.
Here is the video (June 2019) with eng sub:
Unfortunately, logically inconsistent and empirically unfounded "arguments" tend to prevail. After the Q&A session I debated for another 30/40 mins with further data and analyses but it's been a failure.
Sep 3, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Life-Cycle Analysis of Thermoelectric Power Generation in the United States
Implications of energy and CO2 emission changes in Japan and Germany after the Fukushima accident.
Source: Pushker A. Kharecha et al., Energy Policy (2019) dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpo…1. Drastic cuts in nuclear power (NP) in Japan and Germany led to increased CO2 emissions in the first 3 years after Fukushima due to higher fossil fuel (FF) usage to compensate for lower NP output.