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Todd De Ryck
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Todd De Ryck
@tder2012
Humanist, carbon intensity of energy, GHG emissions, pollution, environmental impacts, reliable energy for all, nuclear, member of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Katılım Eylül 2012
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@Passion4Future Funnily enough, I am working on a piece right now explaining why LCOE is nonsense.
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Maybe because it's not cheaper and intermittent renewables are certainly not secure.
Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦@DeborahMeaden
It’s happening and I really don’t get the push against cleaner air, more secure and cheaper energy .. unless of course there are powerful lobbies paying to resist.
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@EVCurveFuturist When do you expect China's electricity be anywhere near "post fossil"? ourworldindata.org/grapher/electr…
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China isn’t just installing renewables at scale — they’re writing the playbook for the post-fossil era.
Build fast. Electrify everything. Dominate supply chains.
This isn’t transition… it’s system redesign.
The blueprint is being drawn in real time. Goggle it! #Bettrification
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan
If you’re not going to go to China, just open up Google Earth. China is building more solar and wind than the rest of the world *combined* and you can literally see it from space.
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Zero-carbon electricity has huge national security and economic benefits.
Slashing gas use on grids is vital to realizing the full economic benefits of non-fossil fuel generation.
Batteries will deepen and accelerate the transition to non-fossil fuel generation.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.
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Canada is one of only six countries with a domestically designed and exportable nuclear technology portfolio. That strategic leverage positions Canada to shape global energy security and forge long-term alliances.
#NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦
rbc.com/en/thought-lea…
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@clawrence I first saw "fuel saving" in this 2018 paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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I've noticed anti-renewables folks have started to use a new term 'fuel savers' to describe solar and wind. The implication being that they can't exist on their own, they just save a little bit of fuel in a fossil fuel system.
This is incredible progress from the term 'unreliables' which was the phrase of choice for several years.
We are making progress.
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This is what mass production of gigawatt-scale reactor components looks like. In 1981, 26 reactors were under construction in France. Each vessel can power 1 million households. Absolutely epic.
Michaël Mangeon@Mangeon4
Photo du jour (deja postée!) Les ateliers de construction Framatome des cuves du Creusot au cœur de la période « faste » du programme #nucléaire français. Pour avoir une idée de son ampleur : En 1981, 26 réacteurs sont en cours de construction à différents stades d’avancement.
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Keep an eye on coal, as more Asian nations turn to it to replace natural gas / fuel oil in power generation.
Philippines said that it’s likely to burn more coal in the next few months. And India’s government said all was ready for “unprecedented” coal demand in 2026.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
South Korea is lifting a cap on coal-fired power generation (until now set at 80% of capacity) to offset the loss of LNG The flexibility of Asia to performan gas-to-coal switching (and its enormous coal-fired fleet) provides a layer of insulation that Europe didn't have in 2022
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We recently published a report, What a Waste, where we calculated that if New York ran entirely on recycled nuclear fuel, it could power the city for over 87,000 years!
We’re getting together to support clean nuclear energy for New York on Tuesday, 24 March with an attention-grabbing action in Times Square — and we would love for you to join us.
We will supply the flyers and shirts — we just need you!
RSVP: forms.gle/5JB94PzU2u86tZ…
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CO2uesday 💎⚫ Carbon Intensity of SK's electricity supply
See FAQ in bio for methodology.
Which grid should be a model for our power future?
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Fossil fuels are a system you have to keep feeding. Solar, wind & batteries are a system that keeps producing clean, renewable energy.
One burns.
One earns.
This isn’t an energy transition… it’s a business model collapse. ⚡#Bettrification #Solar #Wind #BESS #EV #Disruption
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@WilliamLaceyYYC @ExnerPirot There were graphs like this for whale oil & horse buggies. Check out the primary energy fallacy. Electrification comes with an inherent halving of primary energy need. Most of 🇨🇦 customers are planning to electrify for a number of very practical reasons.
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Behold, the perfect exemplar of every ideological, energy illiterate idea that has led us to our current place.
We use oil not because it has unique qualities essential to almost every facet of a globalized economy, according to the professor, but because the “fossil fuel cartel” and their co-conspirators the “shills for nuclear power” and legacy car makers deprive us of wind and solar power. Read and weep.
winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analys…
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@RobAtkinsonITIF @davidjlynch For fuck sake, have you followed the battery learning curve? You people are all stuck in the past.
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Renewables are now the cheapest form of energy in electricity generation. People who claim otherwise still think it’s 2010…
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@tonyannett Those prices are based on Lazard's LCOE "snapshot in time" prices. Fortunately, UNECE and partners are working on full cost analysis unece.org/climate-change…
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Also, how much would EU have saved on healthcare costs, since they would have much less air pollution from coal and gas burning.
The Honest Broker@RogerPielkeJr
How Europe Undermined Its Own Energy Security The revealing math behind Europe's nuclear power blunder Link in reply
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We ❤️ nuclear waste!
It's saved billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
And best of all, it can be recycled into fuel for the future. That's hundreds, if not thousands, of years of potential energy.
Let's include nuclear to fix the climate crisis and let's not waste nuclear waste.
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LCOE is a poor measure of cost because it doesn't include backup, grid balancing and expansion costs. Plus the basic ivory tower LCOE costs are much lower than real world contracts awarded in AR7.
Tony Annett@tonyannett
Renewables are now the cheapest form of energy in electricity generation. People who claim otherwise still think it’s 2010…
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We should advance policies that lead to abundant, reliable and affordable energy. The idea that oil & gas and nuclear are enemies, rather than essential collaborators, in this endeavour has diminished our society and led to objectively poorer economic and political outcomes for Canada.
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Winnipeg Free Press essentially accuses Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Ebba Busch, Deputy PM of Sweden (and others) of being "shills for nuclear power"! open.substack.com/pub/toddderyck…
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