Emil Jacobs

Today I'll stop posting on this platform. This was a long time coming, but this place is only getting worse. If you want to follow me, you can do so on @collectifission@greennuclear.online on Mastodon (also reachable on Bluesky and a myriad of other places). So long 👋

@diogo_valada @whatisnuclear She might not like it, but that so freaking hilarious.

@whatisnuclear Reminded me of this

Who's going to dress up as The Beetle next Halloween?

Congratulations Illinois!

@remcodb Beetje jammer van de AI slop.

Video gepost door Chinese ambassade in de VS...

@RebekkaTimmer Niks "neo" aan hoor, dit is gewoon old school kolonialisme. Alleen de gouverneur ontbreekt nog.

Neokolonialisme — mede mogelijk gemaakt door de Amerikaanse schoothonden die wij onze politieke leiders noemen.

@n00buntu @ethangach @ID_AA_Carmack Curious how you left out the CSAM part.

@ethangach @ID_AA_Carmack > There's a bot that is undressing women without their consent That's crazy! Women are going about their lives when a robot shows up in their home or office or — gasp! — the street and undresses them in public!? I miss the days when art bois would simply imagine in Photoshop.

It would be nice if some of the Twitter diaspora returned. So many creatives, but also many developers, that generally enriched the experience are no longer active. Those that performatively left and those with a seething hatred of Elon probably won’t be back soon, but a lot of people just disengaged on vague cultural grounds that can be reevaluated. There are probably some technical tweaks to the algorithm that could make them more comfortable. I don’t mind the existence of independent echo chambers that people are happy within. There is only a problem when some echo chambers are allowed and others aren’t. Reach out to lapsed friends!

@Leigh_Phillips Also relevant: the group in question explicitly denies doing this de.indymedia.org/node/566531

More detail here: theguardian.com/world/2026/jan…

The predicted rise of climate terror groups has finally occurred. As German climate activist Tadzio Mueller warned in 2022: “If society doesn’t want to change, you need to impose costs on the society. On everybody, not just on the polluters” The group, the Vukangruppe (Volcano Group) that carried out today’s attack on Berlin power cables—that cut electricity and heating to 45,000 households, 4 hospitals, 74 care homes, 20 schools and much of southwest Berlin’s public transport system—is the same group that carried out arson attacks against a transmitter tower in 2021, an electricity pylon near a Tesla gigafactory in 2024, and power cables last September that left another 50,000 households without electricity for days. In the modern world, electricity is life, most especially in winter. Berlin is currently covered in snow amidst a cold snap delivering freezing temperatures. People die from blackouts. At least the original German terror group that surely inspires them, the Red Army Faction, aka the Baader-Meinhof Gang, mostly stuck to assassinating wealthy industrialists and former Nazi SS officers. But this “Green Army Faction” holds *everybody* responsible for climate change, including the poor, the sick in hospitals, and the elderly in care homes. Some news reports are describing the Vulkangruppe as “left wing”. It is nothing of the sort. For once, the normally ridiculous term “eco-fascist” actually applies.

@Leigh_Phillips The 'manifesto' was filled with strange language constructs, only making sense if it was translated from Russian. So, Russian state attack.

I find the number of people replying along the lines of "did you consider building nuclear power plants?" very funny. All these new people having no idea I've been arguing for nuclear energy since I started this account. On that note: the NPE aims for 56 TWh of nuclear capacity by 2050. That's about 8 GWe of nuclear capacity, or five EPR units if you want to put it like that. This is, in my view, very conservative. It would indeed be great to build 11 more EPR units to cover this 135 TWh of planned solar capacity. But hey, you don't need to convince me. As for the people who can't find these targets, I got them from the minister answering questions to a member of parliament last year. You'll want to scroll to question 6: zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/ah-tk-20242025…

Just to point out how stupid this meme is, I'll use some Dutch numbers. The first is part of the National Plan Energy System 2050 (NPE). 1. We aim for 135 TWh of solar energy. 2. The yield for solar energy in the Netherlands is about 0.043 TWh / square kilometer / year. 3. This leads us to 3139 square kilometers of solar parks. This is about the area of the province of Overijssel. 4. The Netherlands has 50 square kilometers of car parks. Half of this can be covered by solar panels. Also, the Netherlands has around 300 to 600 square kilometers of roofs that could be used for solar panels. That leaves short of ... 2500 square kilometers in the best case scenario. Sure, let's cover our car parks, great idea in fact, but let's not pretend that'll be the final word on this matter.

@trottlesnot Yeah, just about.

@collectifission You just proved how silly solar energy is (for large scala energy needs) 3000 sq km....is 10% of the total land area of the country.

@Ster4m There is no such thing as "unused space" in the Netherlands. What are you smoking?

@collectifission Yes, BUT, it's a great use of otherwise unused space

@aaronhann85 Hi, you must be new here.

@Gigabitworld Yes it does: x.com/collectifissio…

@Caiterus See the question and answer on question 6: zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/ah-tk-20242025…

@collectifission can you give me a screenshot of that 135tWh aim, i searched for it but couldnt find it. Dutch consumption in a year is 110tWh and 21tWh are already produced from solar, besides that you have 32tWh of wind, so that 135 tWh doesnt seem right

@FollowTheScien4 @Caiterus @JohanVeldh35629 Yeah, but I like the formulation I used, having heard it used against nuclear energy for many years.

@collectifission @Caiterus @JohanVeldh35629 More likely, batteries won't come at all in the storage scale required.

@Caiterus @FollowTheScien4 @JohanVeldh35629 Sure, but it'll cost too much and it'll come too late.

@FollowTheScien4 @JohanVeldh35629 @collectifission panels can also provide clean power in the dark and the light, its a wonderful technology that maybe you never heard of. Its called a battery

@JohanVeldh35629 @FollowTheScien4 No energy sources have "absolutely no waste"... It's really annoying renewabros are simply ignoring the piles of highly toxic waste the solar and wind industry creates.

@FollowTheScien4 @collectifission Define reliable and define clean. Reliable in able to properly respond to changing demands? Clean in absolutely no wast?

Martien geeft aan dat het idee van energieneutraliteit een sprookje is. Hij geeft veel mitsen en maren die hout snijden, maar twee zaken vallen op: 1. De conclusie dat we, volgend uit zijn verhaal, in 2050 onvermijdelijk fossiel blijven gebruiken trekt hij niet. Die mogen we als lezer zelf bedenken. 2. Hij komt akelig dichtbij een conclusie voor een pan-Europese aanpak kernenergie. Je zou het zo als laatste alinea erbij kunnen schrijven. Maar ook dat noemt hij verder niet. Het is daarmee een stuk dat vlees noch vis is: het stelt de problemen vast, maar komt met geen enkele oplossing. Ik verwacht van Martien toch iets meer.