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I'm genuinely surprised folks can still raise money on this bullshit The New Atomic Age | Valar Atomics share.google/uKfAC23cW4Dzpl… How can anyone believe that this group is going to make nuclear cheap when everyone else has failed?

@kimmaicutler @valaratomics They built a working reactor that generates electricity? Where?

You really can just post a Midjourney render, design and build a working nuclear reactor that generates electricity and pull off a $1B funding round in less than three years. Insane. Hats off to Isaiah and his entire team, including nuclear OG and @valaratomics chief nuclear officer @markmit:

@SpencerGuard This is complete bullshit and you are a dumb fuck. The intent to commit genocide is clear in the language of Israeli leaders.

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic. The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster. I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet. In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people. Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites. The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals. These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent. It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide. If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings: "I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," x.com/SpencerGuard/s… "Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A x.com/SpencerGuard/s… "Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," x.com/SpencerGuard/s…

@CaliDreamingof @camkasky To be clear it's Israel I hate, not Jews. You'd do well to remember they're different things.

@evcricket @camkasky Bwahahaha - yes, all terr*rists are a group who deserve to rot in hell, dipshit. Take care. Your lack of honesty is indicative of the #DeathCult and its Jew hating supporters. #mute

You can never unsee the expression on an Israeli soldier’s face when they are treating another human being like an animal. In photographs it’s outrageous, but in person, it is something you can truly never forget.

@yestiseye @Padsky @afneil This is a completely unsupported assertion

@Padsky @afneil The kicker is finally realising that to make the storage arbitrage thing work at a greater scale, you *need* firm supply (so coal, gas or nuclear …preferably the latter). Across the wider east coast grid we use our coal fleet like they are CCGTs. 2/2

I certainly don’t agree. It doesn’t matter how much electricity you can generate when the wind is strong if ‘right now’ it isn’t blowing. From where will you get the power without gas to balance the system? Until we can store electricity at scale and economically this is the renewable Achilles Heel. And we’re still some way from being able to do either.

@yestiseye @Padsky @afneil Yes sure we should simply remove politics from national energy policy. Brilliant suggestion.

@Padsky @afneil It is actually a straight forward solution (while a challenging but doable implementation) if the politics were taken out of it all. 24/7 nuclear running near max capacity constantly; as a first approximation should be about half the peak demand. Add solar to deal with most of...

@yestiseye @SamCKx Indeed, which is a fucking stupid point to raise when we're trying to decarbonise now.

@SamCKx The single best way to provide cheap, low carbon electricity with reliability is to have nuclear reactors in your mix ...that you built 30 years ago.

If you’re campaigning to end Net Zero in 2026, then you’re either utterly corrupt or utterly stupid. No intelligent species having developed the technology to power itself with cleaner, safer and ultimately more sustainable energy, would voluntarily choose to keep poisoning the very environment it depends on. The objective of every intelligent civilisation should be obvious: survive, prosper and maximise its long-term future. Clean energy serves that goal. Fossil fuels don’t. Fossiel fuels are dirtier, noisier, they damage human health, they pollute our air and water, they leave nations strategically dependent on finite resources and unstable regimes. We only continue to use them, contrary to science, medicine, and our long-term economic interests, because of centuries of money, lobbying, greed and political corruption. Climate scientists warned us decades ago where we were heading. Those warnings weren’t fantasy. They were projections based on evidence, and today all those warnings have become reality. The greatest failure of humanity isn’t that we lacked the intelligence to move beyond fossil fuels. It’s that we allowed greed to overpower that intelligence.

@wolfejosh Fuck off with your genocide defence

Calling the war in Gaza “genocide” is sinister + intentional Repeating it reveals who is an idiot & who is evil Gaza has 2MILLION pop and growing 40k Hamas fighters killed 25k civilians died. In war—a combatant:civilian ratio unheard of. It is the greatest LIE ever told.

@EconTalker You are completely full of shit

Destroying buildings is not genocide. Warning people that you’re going to destroy their buildings before you do, is definitely not genocide. Stopping the war when we got our hostages back shows it never was genocide. Targeting and taking out people who murdered, raped and abducted our fellow citizens is justice, not “ongoing” genocide. The famine that never happened is not genocide. Taking quotes out of context does not prove genocide. And for all of you who continue to lie about this and treat it like it’s just a simple fact like the color of the sky? You are justifying the harming and killing of Israelis and Jews. You’ve chosen the wrong side.

These maniacs sure are working hard. New gigs up every couple of days on YouTube youtu.be/J2OJDU9bZeQ?si…

@MalleeAg71414 What absolute twaddle

3/August 26 in SA they are back to curtailing electricity, that means getting rid of surplus electricity. From shortage to excess is this how Australia wants to power the electricity grid?? $73 billion spent by taxpayers and I would say wasted on poorly planned electrical supply. #renewableenergy #variableenergy #intermittentenergy #Auspol #Victoria2026 #energycrisis #costofliving #Windfarm #SolarFarm #BESS

Woohoo be free!

It's great when the toast launches all the way out of the toaster

@CaliDreamingof @camkasky And this is textbook group punishment. As I said, completely brainwashed.

@evcricket @camkasky Absolutely is custody. Capturing Hamas animals isn’t a traffic stop, mate. Giggle, I’ll take the side of Israel & the Jews 100% over the animals who kidnap, torture & kill toddlers & their mother in tunnels.

I saw an electric excavator at the Tarong mine in 2009. I reckon the Hazelwood bucket wheel was electric too wasn't it?

@PixieOfDeath That's some grim shit

I interrupt my regular Haaretz commentary to bring you this gem:

@CaliDreamingof @camkasky This isn't just custody. It's okay, you don't have to continue, I can see that you're completely brainwashed by Israel's bullshit

@evcricket @camkasky Nope. Enjoying seeing a terr*rist in custody is 100% normal. If you are in pain because a terr*rist is in custody, you are sick.

@CaliDreamingof @camkasky No? You're excused this time? It's okay to enjoy watching other people in pain sometimes? That's not sick?

@evcricket @camkasky True, but not in this case, mate.

Australia Electricity Emissions Update: Average NEM emission intensity over last 12 months: 518 kg CO2-e/MWh. Down 24% since 2020, down 38% since 2015 Sth Australia reductions leading the way thanks to its increase in wind & PV generation. Down 29% since 2020, 68% since 2015