Hi, fellow tweeters! (Yes, I’m cheesy). I wanted to share my new article with you all on realistic pathways for decarbonizing small island developing states (SIDS). (1)
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Juzel Lloyd
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Climate and Energy Analyst
Trying to understand this world one step at a time
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Small modular nuclear reactors: The race is on to actually build them
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The foreign ministers of France, India & the UAE have announced a trilateral initiative which will focus on solar and #nuclear energy, as well as the fight against climate change and the protection of biodiversity, particularly in the Indian Ocean region tinyurl.com/3hn3uv7m
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Breakthrough is hiring! Click here to apply to be our next associate editor, federal infrastructure policy manager, or senior infrastructure analyst
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All the spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. could fit in one Wal-Mart Supercenter. But there’s enough energy still contained in that waste to power the country for 150 years.
Tapping it is costly and controversial. So is not doing so.
A look at ☢️ recycling:
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In Dominica, a 7MW geothermal plant is due for completion in 2023. St. Kitts and Nevis recently obtained funding from to construct a 10MW plant. Share your thoughts on using geothermal energy in the Caribbean in the comments.
#geothermalenergy #geothermal #Caribbean
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It was a pleasure to host Australia’s Shadow Minister of Energy for a conversation about #nuclear.
Our two nations share much in common & for the sake of #JustTransition, #climate action & energy security this will hopefully soon include a vibrant nuclear sector.
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Join of for a timely discussion "Opportunities and Barriers for Nuclear Energy" with Nuclear New York on Tuesday Feb 7, 2023 at 8pm ET. Message us for meeting link. #nuclear #CleanEnergy #ClimatePolicy nuclearny.org/events/
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“We need building nuclear reactors to be less like building airports and more like building airplanes."
Me in this great dive into nuclear waste
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is a grassroots movement that leverages science to create a greener, more prosperous Africa. We focus on food security, renewable energy, and nature restoration. Follow us to learn more and join our cause. #AfricaRePlanets #Sustainability
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There's a growing number of studies now like the one & his team published recently, drawing the conclusion that we can cope with the increasing demand for decarbonization-critical minerals. Though I think the Cassandras are also useful. 1/2
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Remote work is here to stay and it’s going to change everything
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“The open secret is that a handful of (mostly northern European) shareholders oppose nuclear power on ideological grounds…But as the market develops, we may see more pressure on the Bank to at least consider nuclear power.”
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This is right.
And it's why calling *anyone* "anti-science" just makes everything worse.
Absolutely everyone, since the dawn of time, has believed that the science supports their opinion.
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You can be “evidence-based” and still believe a lot of false things. The problem is biased curation and interpretation of evidence. This is why telling a conspiracist to “follow evidence” doesn’t work. They are already!
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Next challenge is to make sure this electricity is reliable, and affordable.
The bar for being considered as 'having access to electricity' is low.
I wrote about it here:
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"This is the only acceptable conclusion for a community that has described the problem in such consistently apocalyptic terms. After all, if our anxiety is not valid, then what does that say about the science that produced it?"
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@AndrewDessler You are arguing against a statement I did not make.
I am not dismissing worry about climate change, I am trying to encourage accurate analysis. Analysis that does not produce unrealistic inflated numbers for the sake of advancing a cause. twitter.com/AndrewDessler/…
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This is sad.
Every other day now I'm disappointed with the reactions of fellow professionals that prefer to shut out any future conversation altogether because of disagreements.
How are we going to move forward like this?
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Wow, blocked for this? The level of intolerance of any viewpoint not in an extremely narrow window (on a platform that is supposed to allow for discussion of these types of things) is pretty incredible. twitter.com/PatrickTBrown3…
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“Rather than emissions reduction, the real opportunity presented by transitioning away from fossil fuels is achieving energy security and affordability.”
Nice piece by
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Hi, fellow tweeters! (Yes, I’m cheesy). I wanted to share my new @TheBTI article with you all on realistic pathways for decarbonizing small island developing states (SIDS). (1)
thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/
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Small island developing states have unique challenges for decarbonization. Read 's great thread on the topic ⬇️
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Hi, fellow tweeters! (Yes, I’m cheesy). I wanted to share my new @TheBTI article with you all on realistic pathways for decarbonizing small island developing states (SIDS). (1)
thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/
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Fear of nuclear is so sticky, against...reality.
"After an accident...a person who is 65 years old at the time of the first accident is thus assumed to live to be 115."
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Break With Reality
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Activists like to villainize flying, but and find that in several countries, the climate benefit of extending operations at closing nuclear plants vastly exceeds the emissions footprint of flights leaving those countries. bit.ly/3HSloU5
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An insightful article by about "the disconnect between our climate reality and our climate anxiety" and our innundation "with indecipherable signal and noise from our relationship to novel technologies and our physical surroundings"
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new from : Experts' addiction to inaccurate visions of climate catastrophe are creating major climate anxiety. Can we overcome this noise?
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Our new paper on minerals for low-CO2 power is covered today in the Dutch magazine De Ingenieur.
From machine translation it looks like a good overview! 😛
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Be like Johan, who wrote such a great twitter thread supporting 🇸🇪 nuclear he got a full page spread in a 🇩🇰 newspaper!
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Today, I have a two page opinion piece in the Danish newspaper @informeren!
I’m writing about why we should support the Swedes in the expansion of their nuclear power fleet instead of clinging to ancient fear mongering.
Link to the full piece 
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"Europe’s rush to secure its own energy security lays bare a hypocrisy that hasn’t gone unnoticed by leaders in Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere."
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Europe's energy security has a price..and it is paid by poor countries. and I in
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"If there’s one question I get more than any other, it’s 'Are we doomed?'...the people asking me that question are members of the global 1% and some of the least at-risk people in human history."
spitting truth as usual
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"The machines of information manipulation and amplification have become measurably more intense than the weather has in recent decades. Why then would we think that climate anxiety is caused by the latter and not the former?"
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New from - For small island developing states “the real opportunity presented by transitioning away from #fossilfuels is achieving #energy
security and #affordability” This can’t be emphasized enough 👏🏾
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Hi, fellow tweeters! (Yes, I’m cheesy). I wanted to share my new @TheBTI article with you all on realistic pathways for decarbonizing small island developing states (SIDS). (1)
thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/
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Only a few of us were always pro-nuclear. At some point most of us started questioning the prevailing view and came to our own conclusion, just like Guido.
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I used to be anti nuclear, it was just what everyone around me did. Then I started listening to the experts and reading about energy myself, and I realized how wrong I was. You do not have to believe me, if you are skeptical, just look at the data.
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Important new piece from my colleague emphasizing that climate resilience and energy security are the chief priorities of small island states, and must be at the forefront of any decarbonization conversation.
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This is a solid look at #EnergyTransition challenges in a defined area with visible limits. Really, this is all of us on a smaller scale, revealing everyone’s issues a bit sooner.
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Hi, fellow tweeters! (Yes, I’m cheesy). I wanted to share my new @TheBTI article with you all on realistic pathways for decarbonizing small island developing states (SIDS). (1)
thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/
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Tit-for-tat. China bans export of core solar PV manufacturing technologies to try to retain global lead, mirroring US moves to limit Chinese access to advanced semiconductor fabrication technology.
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New research co-authored by our head of science finds there are enough rare earth elements to meet projected demands for renewable energy, and mining the minerals will not undermine emissions reductions
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We see a lot of concern today that renewables and other clean electricity will require too much materials, and producing those will break our remaining carbon budget.
We have a new paper out today we find that these concerns are overblown. sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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I used to be anti nuclear, it was just what everyone around me did. Then I started listening to the experts and reading about energy myself, and I realized how wrong I was. You do not have to believe me, if you are skeptical, just look at the data.
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Today I learned that the University of Illinois is planning to build a microreactor to deliver electricity & *district heating* to the Urbana Champaign campus.
I believe this would be the first nuclear district heating in North America?
world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-un
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