Jeremy Gordon

My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box 1/2

What a terrible and unnecessary tragedy! Taiwan has made itself extremely vulnerable to China, and may lose most of its (world leading) chip industry. All because of baseless opposition and fear of nuclear energy. Article link in reply. Basically, they decided to rely on expensive, insecure, polluting fossil fuel imports, instead of their existing, reliable, domestic, non-polluting nuclear plants (which used to provide over half of Taiwan's power). Now they're almost entirely reliant on those fossil fuel imports. Thus, China can bring Taiwan to its knees through a simple naval blockade, instead of having to invade. As a result of this decision many industries, including chips may locate elsewhere, due to the high cost, and lack of reliability/security, of Taiwanese electricity. But apparently the Taiwanese government's desire to use dirty, imported fossil fuels instead of nuclear is so strong that they're willing to make such sacrafices! Fossil generation being thousands of times as bad in terms of public health risks and climate impacts. In addition to the economic and energy security impacts, phasing out nuclear will result in thousands of deaths, and will greatly increase Taiwan's CO2 emissions. All this because (after many decades of safe, reliable non-polluting power generation) an nuclear accident happened which caused.... few if any deaths. Meanwhile, world fossil power generation causes ~1000 deaths PER DAY. Beam me up Scotty!

Most of my timeline today is about nuclear… what is going on?

BREAKING IN NYC: WORLD'S BIGGEST BANKS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR Banks and funds totaling $14 TRILLION in assets have just signed an unprecedented statement in support of nuclear power. They'll be presenting the pledge to support the goal of tripling nuclear THIS MORNING at the Rockefeller Center in New York City to kick off NY Climate Week. A few of the names: Bank of America Barclays BNP Paribas Brookfield Citi Credit Agricole Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Rothschild & Co The pledge comes after Microsoft signs deal to buy $16 billion in electricity from a revived Three Mile Island nuclear plant alone over 20 years to fuel its AI ambitions. I'll be covering live today from the top of the Rockefeller Center, famously built with oil profits, as this unprecedented show of support for the next great energy source overcomes long-held financing barriers.