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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 5

    Zero Dark Nuclear: Once again, plant closures would cause CO2 emissions to soar.http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/4/zero-dark-nuclear …

    8:17 AM - 5 Apr 2018
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      2. Rubrum Cato‏ @Rubrum_Cato Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        These plants are very old-I worked at one that went into commercial operation in 1970 that is still in operation. Hard to see how we can safely keep them running much longer. Received a 20 year license extension to 2029. If we go nuclear, it will have to be with new plants.

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      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD Apr 5
        Replying to @Rubrum_Cato @sapinker

        Actually, they're not. Perry for one is very new. The others are constantly refurbished. Maintained well, nuclear plants can last 60, 80, 100+ years:https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/20/20climatewire-experts-weigh-extending-the-lives-of-nuclear-71936.html …

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      4. Rubrum Cato‏ @Rubrum_Cato Apr 5
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        Possibly, I'm all for keeping them going, but refurbing them is costly and as industrial equipment keeps having shorter and shorter life cycles, it gets very expensive. Some of the oldest plants don't even have clear or complete circuit separation. Plant-by-plant basis I guess.

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      2. david james‏ @disneydave74 Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Seems the fear mongering is your tweet. I wish both sides would stop this type of tabloid headline and work together - for the benefit of the human race.

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      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD Apr 5
        Replying to @disneydave74 @sapinker

        How is it fear-mongering when — literally — every time a nuclear plant is closed emissions rise?

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      4. david james‏ @disneydave74 Apr 5
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        You just answered your own question

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      5. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD Apr 5
        Replying to @disneydave74 @sapinker

        LOL. Cheers and focus on the sound of one hand clapping

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      6. david james‏ @disneydave74 Apr 5
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        Sarcasm is great but doesn’t answer the short term and long term dangers of both forms of energy. Solar/wind/tidal only provide an aesthetic side effect

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. jackson Taylor‏ @SonOfTheUSA_Rev Apr 11
        Replying to @disneydave74 @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        acting like you know everything is great, but doesn't answer the intermittent nature of solar and wind and the fact that electricity can't be stored at scale. The reason emissions always go up post nuclear is that solar can't replace nuclear(or fossil fuel.)

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      1. Michael Cassis‏ @triadaxiom Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker @ariarmstrong

        The green movement does not like CO2, and they do not like nuclear power. But they LOVE contradictions!

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      1. evan max‏ @eanmax10 Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        To my understanding, we're a long, long way from solar or other green energy getting anywhere near the combined ability of nuclear and fossil fuels in terms of replacing energy needs. So w/out nuclear energy it would require conscious decisions to use drastically less energy.

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      2. Joshua Kessler‏ @JoshuaKessler1 Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Where did you get those number on the infeasibility of solar? Elon Musk’s estimates differ wildly for the ones in Enlightenment Now.

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      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD Apr 5
        Replying to @JoshuaKessler1 @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/NZ4IH1CA3r

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      4. Joshua Kessler‏ @JoshuaKessler1 Apr 6
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        This doesn’t tell me anything about the potential of solar power. I think pinker’s number were off about the requisite land area.

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      1. Martin Lavin‏ @Real_SF Apr 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        Increasingly there will be a divide between the needs of the Progressive establishment and those who are science based environmentalists. Not evil, inevitable. Their goals are not concurrent, and often in opposition.

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      1. David Senater‏ @DavidSenater Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steve, You should join the initiative to bring the United Nations climate change HUB to Ontario Regards, D. Senater

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      1. Nihal Haktan‏ @haktan_nihal Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        😍

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      1. J. 🎃P = .06 🎃 de Ruiter‏ @JPdeRuiter Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Hey man, it's the principle, OK?

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