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Alex Trembath

1 year

The problem with my takes is that they’re too good. Many of the people who find me annoying refuse to engage because they know my takes are ironclad.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Look shutting down Europe’s nuclear power plants may have increased dependence on Russian natural gas but at least it also increased air pollution, delayed decarbonization, and further eroded the credibility of Green Parties and the broader environmental movement.

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6 years

San Francisco: A SKYSCRAPER IS SINKING INTO THE EARTH *bans scooters* WE USED THE WRONG GIANT BOLTS ON THE BAY BRIDGE *bans cafeterias* THE GROUND IN HUNTERS POINT IS RADIOACTIVE *bans straws* THE BRAND NEW TRANSBAY TERMINAL IS COLLAPSING *bans delivery robots*

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11 months

It took 19 years to complete the bus rapid transit lane on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

11 months

The highway overpass collapsed just ***9 days ago*** Progress is a policy choice.

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Alex Trembath

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7 years

Climate change isn't *causing* tweet storms, but it is making them more frequent and severe.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

If Pornhub can require verification then so can Twitter.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

1 year

In which @JimPethokoukis identifies the core flaw with the “Earth is dying” sci-fi of Blade Runner, Interstellar, Avatar, etc: being multiplanetary requires a level of abundance that would solve terrestrial problems too.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

1 year

"An average American today is more than twice as wealthy as an average American was the year The Population Bomb was published, yet generates 30 percent fewer carbon emissions and uses 50 percent less land for their diet."

The Malthusians Are Back

Climate activists who worry that the world has too many people are joining an ugly tradition.

www.theatlantic.com

Paul Graham

@paulg

2 years

Some assume that economic growth is inherently at odds with saving the planet. Actually it's closer to the other way round. Economic growth often takes the form of new technology, and new technology usually does less damage to the environment.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

1 year

Just preserving German nuclear capacity could have a greater emissions impact that the aviation emissions of these nine major economies. via @wang_seaver @OSGuido @TheBTI

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

10 months

A typical American now emits less CO2 than one did before the invention of the Haber-Bosch process, hydraulic fracturing, jet engines, and organochlorine pesticides.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

@CharlesCMann

10 months

There is much, much more to do, but from what I can tell it is not widely understood that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels:

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

21 days

18-29 year olds rank climate change 12th among 16 prominent areas of concern according to new Harvard Youth Poll.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

Currently pondering how the food movement has turned, variously, against gluten, lactose, GMOs, “processed food,” etc., while alcohol, which destroys brain cells, causes cancer and car accidents, and creates toxic and abusive relationships, gets a pass.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

10 months

“As J. Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson, I believe that my grandfather would support the expansion of nuclear energy as an environmentally friendly solution to address both the world’s energy problems.”

Nuclear Energy's Moment Has Come

The grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer explains why we need to develop and scale nuclear energy to meet the global energy transition

time.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

L: Emissions from African countries R: Added CO2 emissions from nuclear phaseout policies

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Japan, France, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, and the United States are all reconsidering/reversing planned nuclear power plant closures amidst a global energy crisis.

Energy crisis revives nuclear power plans globally

Amid renewed interest in nuclear power, governments across Europe and Asia are extending their aging fleet of nuclear plants, restarting reactors and dusting off plans for projects shelved after the...

www.reuters.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

I was also freaked out and angry in high school in 2006 when Al Gore said we had 10 years to solve the climate problem. Luckily I have since learned that wasn’t true and nothing like it is true today.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

"A million farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation will be compensated.”

Sri Lanka to pay $200m compensation for failed organic farm drive

Farmers whose crops failed under scheme to establish world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation to be compensated.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

1 year

When you utter seemingly innocuous statements like "we're running out of time to confront climate change," pause to consider the ways in which you're laundering old Ehrlichian wine in new climate hawk bottles.

Shawn Regan

@Shawn_Regan

1 year

Paul Ehrlich in 1970: "The FCC should see to it that large families are always treated in negative light on television." If that doesn't work, then the government should "legislate the size of the family" and "throw you in jail if you have too many" kids.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

4 years

Environmentalism is weird. We want a Green New Deal, but not if moderates adopt it. We want vegan meat, but not if Burger King sells it. Purism and radicalism are always more important than scale and persuasion.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

Five points on nuclear power plant economics in the US. 🧵

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

3 years

Fascinating read on why nuclear power is so expensive, with a lot of blame placed on overly stringent regulatory standards. I don’t know enough to evaluate it, but I’d love to hear from any energy wonks who want to weigh in.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

11 months

"I find that when people see pictures of nuclear waste and discover that it's actually solid metal, safe enough to hug [when safely stored] and actually quite boring—it alleviates a lot of their anxieties." Congrats ⁦ @MadiHilly ⁩!

Pregnant woman poses with "nuclear waste" to prove point about radiation

Madison Hilly told Newsweek that Americans need to "get over our collective hang-up on [nuclear] waste."

www.newsweek.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

Some personal news 💍

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

9 months

1. Humanity is not a plague upon the Earth. 2. Our numbers and well-being have come largely at nature’s expense. 3. Our per-capita impact is going down, not up. 4. We will conserve and restore nature thru further modernization, not by reverting to pre-modern modes of living.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

I would hope it is clear at this point that those of us who have spent years warning against phasing out nuclear power and industrial agriculture were not doing so just to be contrarian.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

In which @elidourado provides probably the most succinct summary yet of what a concrete “abundance agenda” would look like. @CityJournal

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

Imagine spending billions of dollars to rip up every single wind turbine in the state of California. That’s basically the plan with Diablo Canyon.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Imagine taking this paper seriously.

AukeHoekstra

@AukeHoekstra

2 years

FINALLY! Our paper on 100%RE is out! It traces the history and fast growth of the scientific field that models 100% renewable energy: no fossil or nuclear needed. Hundreds of peer reviewed studies now claim 100%RE is possible worldwide against low cost!

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

7 months

Climate activists' relentless, reflexive opposition to IRA-financed projects should make you reconsider the claim that climate activism was essential to the passage of IRA.

Sammy Roth

@Sammy_Roth

7 months

California to get up to $1.2 billion in federal funds to expand hydrogen energy projects — but some climate activists are skeptical, ⁦ @whereishayley ⁩ reports:

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

“The instant pot is the nuclear power plant of the kitchen. It might scare you and if you misuse it it can hurt you, but it’s fast, clean, and cheap.” - My fiancée, absolutely obliterating me over my dislike of the instant pot

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

"Antinuclear activists have spent years fomenting fear about atomic power. Many countries took the bait and prematurely closed plants that were producing clean, reliable energy. Now, reality is forcing them to rethink." via @ChrisBarnardDL @WSJ

Opinion | The Global Nuclear Power Comeback

Countries are realizing they can’t meet their climate, energy and national-security goals with renewables and fossil fuels.

www.wsj.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

The fun thing is that many of the people most guilty of treating politics like sports are the most likely to refer to actual sports as “sportsball” and condescend to the people who enjoy them.

Jane Coaston 🏔️

@janecoaston

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Politics isn't sports! If you want to watch sports, watch sports!

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

5 years

2010: QUESTIONING THE IPCC IS CLIMATE DENIAL sure yeah that makes sense 2012: SUPPORTING THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE IS CLIMATE DENIAL weird logic but okay... 2015: SUPPORTING NUCLEAR IS CLIMATE DENIAL …word? 2019: BELIEVING THE IPCC IS CLIMATE DENIAL srsly wtf

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

An outside-the-box way to think about replacing Diablo Canyon would be to not shut it down in the first place.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

This quite noticeable with the IRA. A bunch of orgs who spent a decade+ insisting that the all-of-the-above, carrots-only approach wasn’t real climate policy, and that nuclear/hydrogen/carbon removal are non-solutions, leapt to take full credit for the bill.

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@hamandcheese

2 years

As an observer of the processes that turn bills into laws, it's striking to witness the number of advocacy orgs that have no scruples about taking credit ex post. An entire industry of people standing at the end of marathon finish lines doing their best out-of-breath routine.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Men will literally make up catastrophist nonsense before admitting they’re having a midlife crisis.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

4 years

56% of Americans say they’re better off than they were four years ago while the political junkie minority of Americans on Twitter are miserable, which I feel like explains a bit of what’s going on.

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@atrembath

1 year

One way to reduce the material/mining demands of decarbonization is to build a lot of nuclear power. New research published today from @wang_seaver et al:

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Alex Trembath

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2 years

"Shutting down nuclear power plants—a luxury energy policy decision that only a rich and energy-abundant country could possibly consider—has produced climate impacts equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of half of the African continent."

Nuclear Shutdowns Have Already Harmed the Planet

Premature shutdowns of nuclear power plants in developed countries have caused additional annual carbon emissions that now total 138.1 million metric tons (Mt) of CO2 equivalents a year. This yearly...

thebreakthrough.org

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

This was the near-universal arrangement for most of human history and my personal vote would not be to return to it.

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@atrembath

2 years

Take all the solar panels in Michigan. Build 40x that capacity. Then tear it all down. That’s what the state will do next month when it shuts down the Palisades nuclear plant. via @TheBTI ’s @RFMeraxes and @JonahMessinger

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

5 months

Joe Manchin insisted permitting reform was essential to maximizing the impact of the IRA and environmental organizations put all their efforts into defeating him.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

The utter bullshit that undergirds Mark Jacobson’s research was obvious to some of us over a decade ago, obvious to many more after he sued his academic critics, but apparently will never be obvious to a subset of peer reviewers and journalists.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

2 years

A recent study shows that electricity blackouts can be avoided across the nation — perhaps even during intense weather events — by switching to 100 percent clean and renewable energy, such as solar, wind and water energy.

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Alex Trembath

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2 years

I find the persistent, vocal skepticism towards climate adaptation (eg more resilient crop breeds, air conditioning, flood control, desalination, early warning systems, building codes) among many prominent climate scientists to be odd.

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1 year

Yes I do find this community note helpful

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1 year

Friends of the Earth was quite literally founded to oppose Diablo Canyon specifically. Their persistence on the issue is a reminder of the need for a different kind of environmental movement.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Excuse me I was reliably informed six months ago that this was technically infeasible.

Alec Stapp

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2 years

Finally! Very glad to see the Germans come to their senses.

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@atrembath

2 years

The US fracking boom of 2008 onward tempered inflation, created hundreds of thousands of jobs during the worst recession in a century, and, yes, reduced carbon emissions by displacing *much* dirtier coal-fired power. Denying this makes for poor advocacy.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Mark Jacobson’s work was transparently bullshit long before the Clack et al debunking, you should feel bad about yourself if you ever took it seriously, and you should feel extra bad if in 2022 you’re still publishing him in academic journals or citing him in mainstream outlets.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 months

The thing to remember here is that environmentalism is not about reducing tons of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere, it's about abolishing industrial consumerism to usher in a pastoral utopia within pseudoscientific earth-systems boundaries.

Madi Hilly

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Many of the largest, wealthiest “environmental” groups care more about closing nuclear plants than they do about reducing emissions. They scream “climate crisis!” as they petition against carbon-free power plants.

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Alex Trembath

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7 years

My feed: an endless stream of “Trump is burning the world down” punctuated by @MaxCRoser observations about the world getting better.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

5 years

I’m not remotely qualified to weigh the viability of the science behind this, but it will be stuff like this, not norms/laws against plastic straws, that really cuts down on plastic pollution.

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

5 years

A new chemical process could turn about 90% of the world’s grocery bags, shrink wrap, and other polypropylene waste into clean fuel.

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4 months

Introducing: Asher. 🌱

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Timothy B. Lee

@binarybits

2 years

What's your favorite chart about the state of the economy right now?

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3 years

Appropos of absolutely nothing, I’d just like to say again that @OurWorldInData is a gift to humanity.

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1 year

Mark Nelson

@energybants

1 year

For years people have been abusing Lazard's Levelized Cost of Energy reports to unfavorably compare nuclear to wind & solar So Lazard hired engineering experts to produce heavily-adjusted LCOEs showing "firming" costs Firm W&S in California may now cost more than Vogtle nuclear

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

13 days

A strong case could be made that this is the biggest ecological success story since the dawn of the postwar environmental movement.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

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Over the past sixty years, American agricultural production has soared while the amount of land used for agriculture has shrunk a bit.

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2 years

I asked the AI to write an op-ed called “We Need to Reform Environmentalism” and this is what it gave me. (!!!)

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@atrembath

6 years

“There are no low-energy, rich countries." VERY excited to see @toddjmoss and colleagues launch the Energy for Growth Hub out of @CGDev .

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5 years

High-speed rail: *is billions over budget and decades behind schedule* Greens: We have figure out how to build these trains! Nuclear power: *is billions over budget and decades behind schedule* Greens: Nuclear power will never work!

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@atrembath

2 years

Environmental groups lobbying to replace nuclear power plants with low-carbon alternatives, and then lobbying against those alternatives, is the rule, not the exception.

Ed Crooks

@Ed_Crooks

2 years

Great story from @Allison_Good1 about opposition to a proposed underground power line connecting NYC to wind and hydro in Quebec. The line was used in the argument for closing the Indian Point nuclear plant. But now the green group Riverkeeper opposes it:

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Alex Trembath

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22 days

All those gorgeous natural viewscapes people are posting today? There’d be more room for nature if we used more nuclear energy. Happy Earth Day! 🌏⚛️⚙️🌽🌆🌳

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@atrembath

3 years

The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council published a list of “projects that will not benefit a community” which includes “research and development” and “techno fixes.”

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2 years

♥️💍🎈

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@atrembath

2 years

Advanced nuclear reactors could generate nearly half of US electricity production by 2050, according to new @TheBTI @VibrantCE modeling. @Dr_A_Stein @JonahMessinger @juzel_lloyd @jamesonmcb @RFMeraxes

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@atrembath

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The principle is that lab-grown meet is unnatural. Hence the opposition from major environmental groups. The problem is that the principle is stupid.

Jonah Goldberg

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I have zero interest in eating lab grown meat and I think the perennial campaign to make people interested in eating bugs is exhaustingly stupid. But I cannot for the life of me think of a persuasive principled defense of this.

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3 years

Whoever suggested “make clean energy cheap” as the basis for climate policy may have been onto something.

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@atrembath

9 months

This reminds me of that XKCD on how long someone could survive treading water in a nuclear spent fuel pool: "You could probably survive treading water anywhere from 10 to 40 hours. At that point, you would black out from fatigue and drown."

Mark Nelson

@energybants

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Warning: YOU CAN'T DRINK THE TRITIUM WATER BEING RELEASED BY JAPAN THIS WEEK It's almost entirely seawater. A lethal dose of seawater for an adult is around 8 liters! The radioactive tritium in it is fine. It's just the toxic levels of sodium that would kill you. China's

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1 year

“If you drank nothing but water with that level of tritium in it for an entire year, you would receive more than 10 times less radiation dose than you’d get in a single cross-country flight." @Dr_A_Stein in this @jamesbmeigs piece:

Tritium Panic in Minnesota

It certainly sounded scary. On March 16, Xcel Energy announced that it was cleaning up a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water at its Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota. That’s almost...

www.city-journal.org

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3 years

Abstinence-only environmentalism

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6 years

The three nuclear plants set to close in Ohio generate more electricity than all the solar panels installed in the United States in 2017.

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7 years

Peter Thiel: We asked for flying cars and we got 140 characters. Twitter: We have just the solution for you.

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7 months

"If this is what waging war on fossil fuels looks like, Democrats apparently aren’t very good at it." via @crampell

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1 year

Population growth is bad because it’s mainly driven by poor people who won’t be able to contribute to innovation, says @NaomiOreskes . 🤷🏼‍♂️

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2 years

The attempts to catastrophize SUCKING WATER OUT OF THE OCEAN and RELEASING WARM WATER INTO THE OCEAN as some scary, controversial outcome of Diablo Canyon's operation...it's really something.

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@atrembath

9 months

"Most nuclear opponents never considered that anyone would take a new generation of pro-nuclear activists seriously, whom they dismissed as industry shills or annoying but ultimately irrelevant 'nuclear bros.'" via @TedNordhaus @TheBTI

The Death of Anti-Nuclearism

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human...

thebreakthrough.org

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@atrembath

5 years

One more top Breakthrough. After 7+ years as a fellow, an analyst, a writer, and a communications director, I can’t really express how excited I am to move into a new position as @TheBTI ’s deputy director.

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3 years

Nuclear power plants are some of the safest industrial facilities not just in the energy sector but in any sector. They manage their own waste and produce zero-carbon electricity 24/7. We could value those things in power market design and policy, but we mostly don't.

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The anti-gas stove folks were winning: making a credible case for electrification/induction, passing tax credits and building codes. Then they started saying indefensible shit like “It's like having car exhaust in a home" and now all bets are off.

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

New rule: you don’t get to call yourself an environmental organization if you pull shit like this

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5 years

The obvious solution is to cap the total volume of vape cartridges and establish a market for trading vape allowance permits.

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3 years

I love my mom and vaccines. 💉

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3 years

reject modernity, embrace tradition

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9 months

I respect anyone who chooses not to fly, not to eat meat, etc for the climate. But globally, air travel and meat consumption will skyrocket in the coming decades. This is what increasing global economic equality looks like. There is no alternative w/o technological solutions.

flyingless

@flyingless

9 months

For ecomodernists such as @atrembath and progressive or socialist optimists about technology such as @Leigh_Phillips and @hollyjeanbuck , I think a vision of less flying in the 2020s and 2030s, at least for current frequent flyers (3+ trips/y), deserves your consideration. (1/4)

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5 years

I was on a first date once and it came up that I support nuclear power and my date asked “but what about the autism?” and I’ll admit that was a struggle for me.

Val Giddings

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5 years

Are the anti-GMO and anti-vaccine movements merging? via @ScienceAlly

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6 years

Correction: The three nuclear plants set to close in Ohio *and Pennsylvania* generate more electricity than all the solar panels installed in the United States in 2017.

Alex Trembath

@atrembath

6 years

The three nuclear plants set to close in Ohio generate more electricity than all the solar panels installed in the United States in 2017.

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2 years

Climate scientists who are annoyed that economists don’t take climate science seriously should make at least a casual attempt to understand economics.

The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists

The U.N.'s latest climate report shows that combating climate change is too critical to be weighed against cost-benefit analyses.

www.rollingstone.com

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ROCKS Nuclear energy has conspicuously low minerals/material footprint compared to other electricity generation technologies. Brand new research from my colleagues @TheBTI :

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5 years

After years of tweeting favorably about nuclear, GMOs, fracking, and geoengineering, I didn’t realize the most controversial thing I could tweet was “the environmental impacts of beef are large.”

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Apparently a plant-based cheese was poised to win a cheese tasting competition, so the Foundation running the competition changed the rules at the last minute. via @jtemple

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2 years

Most frustratingly, while COVID has pushed governments at all scales to get more ambitious/experimental, our regulators appear committed to institutional sclerosis and our representatives appear unenthusiastic about addressing it at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@atrembath

5 years

Whenever one of my pro-nuclear tweets goes vaguely viral I get a bunch of people in my mentions telling me that nuclear power produces radioactive waste and I just want to take a moment to thank those people for educating me about that.

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@atrembath

1 year

“And every cask of spent nuclear fuel represents about 2.2 million tons of carbon, according to one estimate, that weren’t emitted into the atmosphere from fossil fuels. For me, each cask represents hope for a safer, better future.” ⁦ @MadiHilly ⁩

Opinion | Nuclear Waste Is Misunderstood (Published 2023)

We must stop seeing nuclear waste as a dangerous problem and instead recognize it as a safe byproduct of carbon-free power.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

6 years

For the past 6 months, in between tweets, I’ve been training for an Ironman triathlon. This is how I felt at the finish line last Saturday. Real life is better than Twitter.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 years

No one actually believes this.

Rolling Stone Politics

@RSPolitics

3 years

"Climate advocates keep saying, 'This is it, this is it, this is it.' But this really is it. If we don't amp up and accelerate the energy transformation in this decade, we're goners — really goners." — @johnpodesta to @jeffgoodell

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

To cite Mark Jacobson today is to disqualify yourself from serious discussion of the issues and to condone his frivolous legal harassment of fellow scientists. It should be—on scholarly, journalistic, and ethical grounds—verboten. And yet.

Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

Mark Jacobson’s work was transparently bullshit long before the Clack et al debunking, you should feel bad about yourself if you ever took it seriously, and you should feel extra bad if in 2022 you’re still publishing him in academic journals or citing him in mainstream outlets.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

5 months

*whispers* natural gas is a transitional fuel

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

3 months

how was the last month for everyone else

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

I actually think one problem is that conventional environmentalist metaphysics *was* created by scientists. Ehrlich studied butterflies, Hardin studied microorganisms, Wilson studied ants. The problem was they thought human populations acted just like animal populations.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

2 years

@JakeAnbinder The underlying issue is that the environmental movement was created by outdoorsy weirdos and not, like, scientists.

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

2 years

My take is that left progressives have largely abandoned "soft energy" (renewables + radical decentralization and reduction in energy use) for the Green New Deal (renewables abundance + growth) without really grappling with the materialist implications of that attitude adjustment

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Alex Trembath

@atrembath

5 years

When fake meat was the purview of food utopians and visionary chefs, thought leaders were enthusiastically in favor of it. But as soon as fake meat hit the plastic trays at Burger King, they were fretting about how over-processed it was. Me, at @ozm :

The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat

Food activists angry about the processed nature of new plant-based meats are missing the point

onezero.medium.com

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