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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      If the *total amount of energy we use every year* is going UP, and going up EXPONENTIALLY, going in the exact wrong direction, it DOES NOT MATTER if we "shift" or "move" the balance of energy production toward renewables We'll still be burning more coal anyway

      2 replies 8 retweets 52 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      You can say whatever you want about how you power the Bitcoin grid If you magically made a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that could ONLY be powered by renewable energy it would still be a fucking environmental disaster

      2 replies 9 retweets 56 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      Bluntly, the creation of ANY power plant -- windmills, solar panels, nuclear, whatever -- is an environmental disaster and it's only a matter of degrees We cannot get anywhere unless we slow down or stop the growth of demand And with Bitcoin that's mathematically impossible

      3 replies 10 retweets 43 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      The power consumption of the grid HAS TO scale with the size of the economy Burning those terawatts into waste heat is the only way to keep the system honest or it all collapses It locks us into the global energy demand crisis being eternally unsolvable

      2 replies 3 retweets 27 likes
    5. Alex Gladstein‏Verified account @gladstein 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_ and

      You're right, Bitcoin's impact on the environment is negligible compared to political factors. For ex, the U.S. is shutting down enough nuclear in the next few months (to be replaced largely by coal/gas) to pretty much power the whole Bitcoin network:https://medium.com/campaign-for-a-green-nuclear-deal/bitcoin-and-baseload-how-hodling-nuclear-will-deliver-the-future-22b231bec5d5 …

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @gladstein @FranckLeroy_ and

      It doesn't matter, because any amount of energy needed to power the Bitcoin network now -- when essentially no normal person uses Bitcoin for daily transactions and they celebrate the network being able to pull off transactions at a rate of 1-10/hr -- is fucking peanuts

      2 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      "Oh, wow, these nuclear plants being shut down by eeeeevil EPA thugs like in Ghostbusters, who are just making up the environmental costs of keeping them open, could power all of Bitcoin right now Great, we just need to build 10,000,000x as many to reach Full Bitcoin by 2050"

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    8. Alex Gladstein‏Verified account @gladstein 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_ and

      Actually, it's really terrible that nuclear progress has been stalled in favor of fossil fuel alternatives. I'm surprised you feel differently.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15h15 hours ago
      Replying to @gladstein @FranckLeroy_ and

      On balance, I think that nuclear power replacing fossil fuel capacity is a good thing and it's very bad for the Earth that it hasn't happened However, it is explicitly asking a community to shoulder certain risks and costs on themselves for the greater good of society

      1 reply 2 retweets 16 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15h15 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      And while that's something we do in fact have to do at some point if we don't want everything to burn and drown, we've done a pretty piss-poor job of openly communicating and then compensating those costs

      1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15h15 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      The fact that the current President of Taiwan was elected in 2016 on an anti-nuclear platform is, on balance, a bad thing for the country's economy and for slowing global warming But it's because people had no faith in the industry taking responsibility or taking care of them

      11:55 AM - 24 Apr 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15h15 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

          A "lack of buy-in", as they say People were angrily demanding "What happens if there's another Fukushima? Can you promise we'll be taken care of?" and the government didn't answer to their satisfaction (And there's no government less trustworthy on this than the US)

          3 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
        3. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 15h15 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

          It is less dangerous in virtually every way to have a nuclear plant near your community than a coal plant in the exact same place. It even exposes the neighbors to less radioactivity, amazingly. The nuclear plant issue is a strict subset of all “where do we put the power plant”

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
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        1. Renée‏ @ReneeStephen 15h15 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

          Well, because the industry won't. But you're right that government should. But square that with corporate accountability calls, too: we want governments to NOT be on the hook for corporate malfeasance or disaster (and in fact that safety net causes cos to shirk beforehand.)

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