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@BenGrahamUK That is fucking absolutely completely wrong.

There are 29 active volcanoes in the world. One volcano emits in 2 seconds what humanity emits in an entire year. The climate debate is over.

@JDVance It already is zero. Soft Hands Vance.

The appropriate number of illegal immigrants voting in our elections is ZERO. We can make that a reality if we pass the SAVE America Act into law today.

@NuclearHazelnut @tder2012 And it does not have to move through the Straight of Hormuz that gets shut down because the administration is absolutely unhinged and evil.

For perspective, here is how the energy in one uranium pellet compares to fossil fuels. Hard to believe something this small can hold so much energy: A tiny pellet with a massive energy density!! ⚛️

Somewhere above the clouds holding a replica uranium fuel pellet I use during talks. It helps people visualize how small nuclear fuel actually is… & how much energy it holds!! ⚛️ A real pellet about this size contains roughly the same energy as ~1 ton of coal

Stalinist communism only exists in North Korea now. The communist label is more of a cosplay. China liberalized their economy but their one-party government is still a controlling piece of shit. We should push China to self-liberalize those government with separation of powers and opposition parties like Taiwan. In my dreams, I want to see Taiwan rejoin China under a Taiwanese style government. Taiwan is as rich as China and is free liberal democracy and is honestly a better place to live.

Fox News: “Communism only takes, never builds.” Chengdu, China:

@ClimateBen Nuclear power can kill fossil fuels outright.

Scientists project global warming of 1.51 to 1.83°C for the years 2024-29 implying tropical forests and tropical corals are now in a fatal collapse phase. Media? Silent.

#ClimateChange caused by #GlobalWarming from greenhouse gasses produced by burning #FossilFuels is an existential threat to human civilization. We should not fuck around and find out how bad it can get. We need to be building #NuclearPower plants as fast as we can globally.

@MikeHudema Land rape and extractive nightmare. Do nuclear reactors.

This solar energy farm in Australia is made up of more than 1 million solar panels. It will produce enough energy to power over 200,000 households. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

This is what economic suicide looks like;

@SeanPaige Locals in states that you have to move spent fuel by rail through to reach Yucca even have a veto. We have missile proof containers and armed freight trains that can make sure nothing happens. The transport veto keeps fuel in power plant parking lots.

@SeanPaige Force it through, make it a complete federal project on federal land and ignore idiot locals who think spent fuel kept in a dry hill near the Nevada test sites is a problem. Harry Reid’s death was a gift to clean and safe nuclear power.

The proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was a thoroughly researched, very practical, and ready-made solution. And the tunnels and storage chambers inside the mountain have already been dug. I know, because I've been inside. Harry Reid killed it, but Harry Reid is no more, giving us an opportunity to revisit it as a storage option. Let's do it. #nuclearenergy @ENERGY @SecretaryWright #energyrealism #energy

The best version of the Democratic Party is a party that taxes the public to fund an efficient, simple, robust safety net, and that can build public infrastructure fast. The worst version of the Democratic Party is economic slop about 'nobody should pay taxes but millionaires', and also grinds economic activity to a halt with a million regulations on everything. The first actually believes in the power of the state to do good. It thinks the system is worth funding and defending. It believes in the fairness of a safety net but also in the power of economic growth and dynamism. The second is cynical crap that just wants to identify heroes and villains and hysterically strike out at whoever is 'bad'. Rich people bad, only they should pay taxes. Big Companies bad, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything. It has no actual vision of the good.

NIMBY on vacation.

Real change begins when inaccessibility can no longer be ignored. On March 12, 1990, disability rights advocates marched and wheeled to the U.S. Capitol to demand passage of the ADA. When they reached the steps, some left their wheelchairs behind and crawled upward, showing the nation exactly what inaccessibility looked like. The images here were powerful and lawmakers took notice. Just months later, the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, expanding access across the country.

@AaloAtomics Dumb question but does a secondary water/steam loop come with a risk of flowing into the molten sodium causing potential damaging chemical reactions? Sodium gets quite excited when in contact with water.

Sodium reactors have over 800 reactor-years of operations. They've run in the US, Russia, France, Japan, China, and India. But currently, there are none in the US. Aalo is changing that. Here's why we think sodium is the right coolant for the "Model-T" of nuclear reactors:

We like to rearrange street space to put the bike lanes on the outside, and use parked cars for protection. You might call this Copenhagenizing a street.

@COrepKdeGraaf My god if we cheat why did your pedophile become president again?

there really is no other way of hearing that... why does Jena so badly need our elections to be ICE free?

@MatEick I don’t give a shit and costs decrease through mass building. And nuclear is a one and done replacement of fossil generators with no extra transmission or chemical energy storage. Nobody cares about this bullshit “costs too much so it doesn’t matter” elitist rhetoric anymore

@FissionPhil The average time it takes to build a nuclear power station is about 10-15 years...see Hinckley Point C, Flamanville, Olkiluoto 3....and usually the cost is 3-400% over the initial budget...

Nuclear is becoming a political winner.

@SecWar Eat shit and go in the forever box.

Professional Military Education should produce warfighters and leaders—not wokesters. That’s why we are establishing a Task Force to evaluate our Senior Service Colleges and ensure the focus is where it belongs. No distractions. Just warfighting.

@peakaustria @DavidUllrich202 Nuclear would be another order of magnitude more than solar per acre at least.

That’s not a typo. solar panels produce roughly 200 times more energy per acre than corn. This striking figure makes an ironclad case in favor of converting vehicles to electricity – and that’s before we take into account the environmental and health benefits which would result from the profound reduction in emissions. The ‘recent’ news that US ethanol emits 24% more emissions than gasoline, is in fact old news. Politics in the United States, influenced by agricultural industries, fossil-fueled fertilizer manufacturing, and perhaps a well-intentioned ulterior motive of underwriting food for national security, has led to a massive subsidy program for corn growers. In fact, since 1980, pretty much all of the additional acres used to grow corn have gone towards fueling vehicles, not humans. We need not point fingers at farmers – they simply produce what the market demands. But these demands, which our civilization imposes on our soil, have resulted in far-reaching consequences. Corn is particularly adept at siphoning nutrients from our soils. Restoring these nutrients requires fertilizers sourced from fossil-fuel feedstocks and produces more CO2 emission than any other human-driven chemical process on earth. Meanwhile, solar can help alleviate our nitrogen-fixation emissions crisis as well, by pulling fertilizer out of thin air. pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/03/10/sol…

There are biotechnological ideas to reduce fertilizer use and ocean oxygen depletion dead zones from runoff. Again the scale here is huge and we are very late in our restoration efforts. Birgit Mitter on Corn 🌽: It’s true that maize has a significantly higher potential for saving mineral nitrogen fertilizer than soybeans. Introducing rhizobia into soybeans is just our first application. While rhizobia use is established practice, farmers usually have to inoculate seeds themselves. This is labor-intensive and often unreliable. With SeedJection, they receive ready-to-use seeds with highly effective bacteria for the first time. Next, we want to scale the technology to maize, because there are free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria that can also efficiently supply maize with nitrogen.