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President, Environmental Progress :: Time Magazine, 'Hero of the Environment’ :: For nature, peace, and prosperity for all

Berkeley, CA
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    28 feb

    I used to believe innovation could reduce the massive ecological impacts of solar & wind farms Then I realized that we can't make the sun/wind more energy-dense, or reliable Thus, I can no longer support them My newest essay is 20+ years in the making

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  2. 26 apr

    Germany will have spent $580B on renewables by 2025 — & increased electricity prices 50% —without having reduced emissions France spends a bit more than half as much for electricity that produces one-tenth the emissions as Germany. How? With nuclear power

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  3. 25 apr

    Nuclear - saved 2M lives to date - makes least, best kind of waste - is fastest way to decarbonize - saves nature (0.25% land & 6% of materials of solar) - is least subsidized - makes elect. cheap - is victim of 60 yrs fossil-funded propaganda Proof

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  4. 24 apr

    Climate scientists including James Hansen have been campaigning for the last three years to save the world’s nuclear plants. They have sent over 25 open letters to political leaders around the world, including in Europe. Are you really listening to them?

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  5. 24 apr

    In Belgium - Greens just voted to *subsidize* building of gas plants to replace nuclear, which is 73% of its clean electricity - silent quiescence from - true climate defenders will rally for nuclear in Brussels this Sunday

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    23 apr

    NEW EPISODE! The great on the wonders of nuclear energy and how renewables and fossil fuels pale in comparison: iono: iTunes: Spotify:

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    23 apr

    Happy everyone! Just a reminder, Diablo Canyon is scheduled to prematurely shut down in 2025. It protects pristine tide pools and some of the most picturesque coastline in California, all while single-handedly producing 16% of California's clean electricity!

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    22 apr

    On this I highly encourage this with - How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment.

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  9. 22 apr

    12. The economists note that the Obama Admin.’s core estimate of the social cost of carbon was $50 per ton in 2019 dollars, while the price of carbon is just $5 in the US northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and $15 in California’s cap-and-trade system /END

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  10. 22 apr

    11. But are renewables cost-effective climate policy? They aren't. The economists write, "the cost per metric ton of CO2 abated exceeds $130 in all specifications and ranges up to $460 making it several times larger than conventional estimates of the social cost of carbon"

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  11. 22 apr

    10. The higher cost of electricity reflects "the costs that renewables impose on the generation system," the economists note, "including those associated with their intermittency, higher transmission costs, and any stranded asset costs assigned to ratepayers."

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  12. 22 apr

    9. Previous studies were misleading, the economists note, because they didn't "incorporate three key costs," which are the unreliability of renewables, the large amounts of land they require, and the displacement of cheaper "baseload" energy sources like nuclear plants.

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  13. 22 apr

    8. My reporting was criticized — sort of — by those who claimed I hadn't separated correlation from causation, but the new study by a top-notch team of economists, including an advisor to Barack Obama, proves I was right.

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  14. 22 apr

    7. And unreliability requires solar- and/or wind-heavy places like Germany, California, and Denmark to pay neighboring nations or states to take their solar and wind energy when they are producing too much of it.

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  15. 22 apr

    6. Solar and wind require that natural gas plants, hydro-electric dams, batteries or some other form of reliable power be ready at a moment’s notice to start churning out electricity when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining, I noted.

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  16. 22 apr

    5. Last year, I was the first journalist to report that solar and wind are making electricity more expensive in the United States — and for inherently physical reasons.

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  17. 22 apr

    4. The cost to consumers has been staggeringly high: "All in all, seven years after passage, consumers in the 29 states had paid $125.2 billion more for electricity than they would have in the absence of the policy," they write.

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  18. 22 apr

    3. The study by Michael Greenstone, Richard McDowell, and Ishan Nath compared states with and without an RPS. It did so using what the economists say is "the most comprehensive state-level dataset ever compiled" which covered 1990 to 2015.

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  19. 22 apr

    2. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) "significantly increase average retail electricity prices, with prices increasing by 11 percent (1.3 cents per kWh) seven years after the policy’s passage into law and 17 percent (2 cents per kWh) twelve years afterward" the economists write

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  20. 22 apr

    1. Solar panels and wind turbines are making electricity significantly more expensive, a major new study by a team of economists from the University of Chicago finds.

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  21. 22 apr

    Unreliable Nature Of Solar And Wind Makes Electricity Much More Expensive, Major New Study Finds My latest column — please share!

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