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Chairperson and founder of Nuclear Power Yes Please, Denmark: @atomkraft_jatak | Working at @karnfull DK | Writing about energy and climate ⚛️
Oct 8 5 tweets 2 min read
Something is rotten in the State of Denmark

Several large renewable energy projects in Denmark are being scrapped or postponed.

🏝️ Energy Island Bornholm
💧 Hydrogen pipeline to Germany
🚧 Ørsted scraps several PtX projects
😳 6 GW offshore tender hanging by a thread

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1/5 Image 🏝️ Energy Island Bornholm

Today The Economic Council @DORsSekretariat has dealt a significant blow to the government's ambitious Energy Island Bornholm project. The council recommends it being scrapped if the project cannot deliver socio economic profit.

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Sep 21 4 tweets 2 min read
APPLE, AMAZON & MICROSOFT ARE GOING NUCLEAR

More and more companies have come out embracing nuclear energy as a mean to reaching their climate targets

Soon we’ll see major companies around the globe follow suit paving the way for a cleaner, safer and more prosperous future

1/4 Image Yesterday @Microsoft and @CEGCleanEnergy agreed to a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 20 years by restoring TMI unit 1.

The deal will secure Constellation with one of the biggest power deals ever.

~$800 million/yr for 20 years
$16 BILLION for one nuclear reactor

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Sep 17 10 tweets 4 min read
New Energy Commissioner in EU is anti-nuclear: What will happen?

Today @DanJoergensen was nominated for the position as Energy Commissioner.

Dan Jørgensen has historically been against nuclear energy, but will this change as he’s put in charge of energy in 🇪🇺

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1/10 Image It's clear that Dan Jørgensen has been against nuclear for several years.

Looking at his Facebook-page, we find several posts, where he proudly talks about how he’ll fight against nuclear energy being recognized as sustainable in the EU taxonomy.
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Aug 26 11 tweets 4 min read
Energy Islands in Denmark: An economic disaster in slow motion.

Last week, Denmarks two energy island projects, North Sea and Bornholm, was deemed uneconomical once again.

Now Germany shows their interest, which finally proves the projects being a disaster.

1/11 Image Last week I reported that the energy island in the North Sea has been postponed by at least three years, after Belgium withdrew their interest in the project.

The Danish minister of climate told the press that Denmark would now seek to involve Germany as a co-investor
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Aug 16 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨 BREAKING: World’s second largest shipping company @Maersk is exploring maritime nuclear propulsion!

Together with @lloydsregister and @COREPOWER10, Maersk has joined a new study to assess the potential for nuclear propulsion in container ships.

1/5 Image It’s quite paradoxical that a Danish maritime company wants to explore martime nuclear propulsion when nuclear power is literally banned by law in Denmark.

This highlights how outdated the Danish ban on nuclear power truly is.

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Mar 28 8 tweets 3 min read
Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 in numbers 🧮

After the summit last week it’s now clear. Nuclear Energy is here to stay.

Here’s some food for thought. The 32 countries account for:
💰 72% of the world GDP
🛢️ 70% of all energy consumption
🔥 70% of the all CO2 emissions

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1/8 Image 💰 World GDP:
The 32 countries that signed the joint declaration at the NES24 accounts for 72% of the world’s GDP as of october 2023.

This is mostly influenced by economies as:
🇺🇸 USA: 26.95%
🇨🇳 China: 17.7%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4.23%
🇮🇳 India: 3.73%
🇬🇧 UK: 3.33%
🇫🇷 France: 3.05%

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Nov 10, 2023 18 tweets 5 min read
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark 🇩🇰

This week we’ve witnessed an utter unscientific catastrophe in Denmark.

It has come to light that the upcoming hearing on nuclear power in Denmark has been infiltrated by anti-nuclear activists disguised as experts

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1/18 Image Earlier this week member of Danish parliament @SteffenFrolund disclosed that the upcoming hearing about nuclear power in Denmark has been infiltrated by an anti-nuclear activist disguised as an expert on nuclear waste suggested by the Social Democrats
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Oct 17, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Under the right conditions nuclear power grew faster than solar and wind combined 📈⚛️

A new study shows that nuclear power is scaled up faster than renewables, though the latter are used in more countries.
Authors:
@acherp @jessicadjewell @v_vinichenko
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1/7 Image The study has been released in the peer reviewed journal @IOPenvironment
For the first time the growth of nuclear, solar and wind has been systematically measured in all large countries over 60 years controlling for the size of the country and phase of technology development.
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Oct 15, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
🇩🇪 vs. 🇪🇺
Germany’s anti nuclear stance stalls Europe’s transistion away from fossil fuels.

It’s mind boggling that Germany still believe they’re being taking seriously, when promoting their anti scientific nuclear propaganda.

Get over it. You lost Germany.
1/5 Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Fessenheim power station. Source: Financial Times In a recent article by @FT a picture of a divided Europe is being painted. On one side we have Germany refusing to accept their bad judgement on nuclear. On the other we have France just trying to build out nuclear energy on same terms as renewables.
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Oct 7, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
🇩🇰 Danish wind industry on the brink of collapse? Begs for subsidies!

Industry association @GreenPowerDK claims that the Danish wind industry will disappear in four years, if the Danish state doesn’t provide DKK 1.5 billion in state aid.
1/5 Image The last couple of years danish politicians and the wind industry have bragged about how wind turbines are now practically free and no state subsidies are needed anymore.

These statements have aged well as the industry associations now beg for help.
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Oct 6, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Nuclear makes sense in Denmark!

In today’s episode of Radioactive I had the pleasure of interviewing Troels Schönfeldt, chairman and co-founder of the danish molten salt reactor company @SeaborgTech

Political acceptance will pave the way for nuclear in Denmark!

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1/8 Image Troels is very clear, when he talks about nuclear power in Denmark.

Conventional nuclear will not make sense, but SMR technologies, both 3. and 4. gen, have the potential to help decarbonize the danish energy system in the future.
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Jul 24, 2023 18 tweets 6 min read
Biomass is the SCAM that we all fell for

Biomass is not carbon neutral, sustainable or green 🪵

Let's debunk the myth of biomass as a climate friendly energy source, and explore why even 'green' countries like Denmark may not be as eco-friendly as they seem.

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(1/17) Image Burning biomass emits large amounts of CO2 and toxic particles, just like coal. It is documented by more than 800 researchers, including a wide range of the world's foremost climate scientists and EASAC, the Pan-European Science Council.
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Jul 21, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
Wind power companies abandoning offshore projects!

Several wind power companies find themselves in a difficult situation as cost increases, of up to 40%, halts projects worldwide.

I’ve gathered all the latest news about projects being abandoned or halted ⬇️

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(1/12) Image Yesterday two big news stories about Vattenfall and Ørsted came to light after both companies abandoned offshore wind projects in the US and UK.

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Jul 18, 2023 19 tweets 6 min read
GONE WITH THE WIND: Denmarks stalled energy transition

Listen to the latest episode of @DecoupleMedia, where @Dr_Keefer and I unravel the truth about Denmark’s green energy transition.

Also, we talk about how nuclear energy is making a comeback in Denmark!

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(1/19) Image Listen or watch the episode on your podcast / streaming app of choice:


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May 11, 2023 9 tweets 6 min read
Yesterday was a VICTORY for nuclear power in Denmark 🇩🇰⚛️

The last couple of years the support for nuclear power has grown immensely in most European countries. Denmark is no exception!

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(1/9) Image Latest opinion polls by Megafon A/S Consulting and Research show that 49% of the danish population would vote yes to nuclear power in Denmark! Only 32% would vote no, and the last 19% don’t know.

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Apr 12, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
Germany's 🇩🇪 nuclear power phase-out has resulted in thousands of excess deaths due to air pollution from fossil fuels!

Several academic papers show that the negative externalities of the German nuclear power phase-out is far greater than ever imagined!

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(1/11) Image Germany has since 2011 accelerated the closure of its nuclear power plants as a response to the Fukushima accident in 2011.

On Saturday the 15th of April 2023 the last three nuclear power plants will be shut down.

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Apr 10, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
ANTI-NUCLEAR IS SO LAST YEAR 😎

When the war in Ukraine is over, anti-nuclear EU member states "will have to sit down and engage in serious self-criticism," International Energy Agency (@IEA) Director Fatih Birol said during a conference at Science Po Paris.

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(1/5) Image As a Dane, I find this very refreshing, as our government and especially minister of energy and climate @L_Aagaard openly tries to exclude nuclear-made hydrogen from being labeled as green.

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Feb 4, 2023 13 tweets 8 min read
Top CEO’s are betting on nuclear in DENMARK 🇩🇰

Nuclear power has experienced a quantum leap in Denmark in the last two weeks!

The CEO of the @novonordiskfond and the CEO of @OrstedDK both believe that we cannot avoid nuclear power in Denmark.

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(1/12) Last week, chairman of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Lars Rebien Sørensen, made it clear that we should reconsider our ”Nuclear Power No Thanks” in Denmark.

Today in the danish newspaper @berlingske he makes an even more profound claim follwing last weeks annonuncement.

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Jan 16, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
Deja vu?
Once again, Denmark is trying to stop Sweden's green energy transition.

Denmark is late to the party as its neighbor goes nuclear.

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(1/15) Ever since the newly elected Swedish government came to power, Swedish energy policy has experienced a rebirth.

The government campaigned on expanding Sweden's nuclear power fleet with the intention of ensuring green and stable electricity for future generations.

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Dec 21, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Denmark - where burning trees is seen as climate leadership.

Since the end of the 20th centery Denmark has been reducing its consumption of coal dramatically. Instead Denmark has massively increased its use of biomass (mainly burning trees from other countries).

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(1/7) Denmark gets 90% of its Total Energy Supply (TES) from something that burns i.e. emits green house gasses (biomass, coal, oil and gas).

This means that only 10% of Denmarks TES comes from clean energy (wind and solar). Most people find this hard to beleive.

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Dec 14, 2022 16 tweets 5 min read
There are no hereditary effects of exposure to ionizing radiation (radioactivity).

One of the most prominent arguments against nuclear power is the fear that radiation causes hereditary effects for several generations, i.e. children born with genetic mutations.

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(1/16) Image It's an understandable fear since for almost four decades we've been indoctrinated with images of children being born without arms and legs or with some sort of cognitive impairment as a result of the Chernobyl accident or the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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