Thomas W

Gestern bin ich mit meinem VW eUp (Jahrgang 2013) ins Tessin gefahren, zweimal über den Gotthardpass. Ich wollte sehen, ob das mit dem kleinen Akku möglich ist. 471 km mit durchschnittlich 11.4 kWh/100 km. Sieben Schnellladungen. Ja, es geht.

Das KKW Gösgen hat 2025 leicht mehr Gewinn erzielt als 2024. Der Kapazitätsfaktor lag höher als bei Photovoltaik und Windkraft ;) muula.ch/aktuell/kernkr…

@NZZ Die Milliardenfalle kommt vom Schweizer Bewilligungsverfahren und den absurd hohen Anforderungen. Siehe Gösgen. Sogar wenn das neue KKW fertig gebaut ist, gibt es noch keine Sicherheit, dass der Betreiber eine Betriebsbewilligung erhält.

Aktuelle Zahlen der Strombranche zeigen, dass ein Atomkraftwerk massive staatliche Hilfe und Subventionen braucht. Das von Bundesrat Albert Rösti favorisierte Fördermodell kann für die Stromverbraucher zur Milliardenfalle werden. nzz.ch/schweiz/kernkr…

Wer heute ein Haus bauen will, muss begründen, wieso er in einem Haus wohnen will. Es ist doch allgemein bekannt, dass Zelte und Wohnwagen viel günstiger sind als Häuser.

@scaryjellomj @whatisnuclear Wouldn't an oil crisis help the nuclear industry?

@whatisnuclear I almost forgot the 2nd point attempting to compress first point into character limit. 2nd point is we are in the middle of world War III & the biggest energy crisis since the invention of the steam engine, & it's likely to kill this Renaissance like Fukushima did the last one.

Standing offer with so much going on now and so much forgotten history: I will work with your nuclear company for free to figure out the most badass version of a "first" that can be accurately proclaimed. I just want to celebrate and not feel the need to defend the record.

Fukushima ist 15 Jahre her. Es geistert wieder viel Halbwissen durch die Netze. Deshalb helfen wir dir bei der Einordnung. Durch Fukushima gab es bis jetzt einen einzigen Strahlentoten. Durch ein Windrandarbeiten sind dieses Jahr 2 Arbeiter in Deutschland gestorben. Durch Strahlung gab es keine Zunahme der Krebserkrankungsrate in der Zivilbevölkerung. Der Atomausstieg hat ~27.000 Tote durch zusätzliche Luftverschmutzung gefordert. Der Tsunami hat 19.000 Tote verursacht. Die Angst vor Strahlung hat ~2.313 Menschen in Japan ins Grab befördert. Das heißt, durch die Angst vor Kernenergie hat nicht rational begründbar Angst durch Fukushima ~1.5 extra Tsunamis verursacht. Das ist ein Problem. Vereine wie @greenpeace_de setzen noch immer auf Angst mache. Das ist unethisch. Die Angstmache über die Jahrzehnte hat dazu geführt, dass Kernenergie in Deutschland nicht stärker ausgebaut wurde. Seit 1990 hat die Kohleverstromung in Deutschland ~267.000 Tote durch Luftverschmutzung verursacht. Wäre die Kohle mit Kernkraftwerken ersetzt worden, wären 99,9% von diesen Menschen nicht vorzeitig gestorben. (Damals waren weder Wind noch PV ansatzweise wirtschaftlich) Der Staudammbruch Banqiao 1975 in China hat rund 170.000 Menschen aus dem Leben gerissen. Gegen Wasserkraft werden von @greenpeace_de keine Angstkampagnen geführt. Das ist nicht vernünftig. Diese Unvernunft kostet. Kostet Menschen leben. Wir machen darauf aufmerksam. Wir fordern, dass Kernenergie FAIR behandelt wird. Das heißt: Photovoltaik, Wind, Kernenergie und Wasserkraft sind sicher. Alle davon sind CO2 arm. Alle davon ökologisch besser als fossile Energieträger. Wir brauchen aus wirtschaftlichen, ökologischen und klimatechnischen Gründen auch Kernkraftwerke im Energie System. Dazu haben wir bereits eine Studie erstellt. Das ist zum Wohl des Menschen und der Umwelt. Deshalb, falls du diesen Post sinnvoll findest - bitte teile ihn. ------------------- Quellen im Anschlusskommentar. ------------------- Wir freuen uns auch über Spenden, damit wir mehr Menschen erreichen können. Damit können wir gemeinsam die Welt besser machen.

@WeplanetDACH @Marwyn72 @X @grok welche Regeln hat Marwyn missachtet, welche eine Sperrung rechtfertigen?

Mal was in eigener Sache: Unser Mitglied @marwyn72 wurde gesperrt. Nach Widerspruch kam sogar die Mitteilung, er habe "mehrfach gegen Regeln verstoßen" und werde nicht widerhergestellt. Das ist völlig absurd! Was kann man denn da machen? @X

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

@tomdawon Ist ja auch total nervig, wenn man während eines Stromausfalls nicht mal gleichzeitig kochen, heizen, Elektroauto laden und die Sauna aufheizen kann :P

Schöne Erklärung von Huawei - dann warte ich mal, bis es einen 25K-MBP0 gibt 😍 Dann bräuchte man nicht mehr mehrere MAP0 WR bei 3phasigem Ersatzstrom >12kW 👌

@Timboreed Ask some Germans, maybe from the south ;)

I think deep down, as a broad generalisation, most Australians agree that New Zealanders are more likeable than Aussies. Or at a minimum, as likeable. Got me wondering if there are countries out there who actually prefer their neighbour over their own nationality.

@ProCloudAG Beste Voraussetzungen für den 10. Mai.

Ab 1. März übernimmt Patrice Steiner die Rolle als CEO. Gründer Stephan Mahler bleibt im Verwaltungsrat enthalten. Per 1. Februar hat Cheryl Philine Bucher Head of Business Operations und Melanie Benitez Soares Head of Support übernommen. Weitere Infos: buff.ly/VBdUYsG

@Dr_Keefer Let's have a look at the Swiss NPP uprates: Beznau (Westinghouse PWR) +15 MWe (4%) Gösgen (Siemens PWR) +90 MWe (10%) Leibstadt (GE BWR) +291 MWe (31%) The world's biggest uprate (EPU) seems to be Grand Gulf 1, +35%. By the way, Gösgen also produces process heat (low temp).

The Most Overlooked Opportunity in Nuclear? Why Nuclear Power Plant Uprates Beat Everything Else in the Race for New Capacity. Recent conversations about the budding nuclear renaissance often begin with the same list. Microsoft restarting Three Mile Island, tech companies partnering with advanced nuclear reactor vendors or the proposed Japanese funded US AP1000 fleet build. These announcements generate headlines, volatile valuations and investor decks. Meanwhile, forty Westinghouse pressurized water reactors (PWR) sit at roughly the same thermal power output they were commissioned at decades ago, operating within design margins calculated on transistorized computers before integrated circuits existed. Together, these plants hold between 6-10GW of additional capacity, the equivalent of eighteen to thirty 300MW SMRs, that could be unlocked faster and cheaper than any other nuclear source and perhaps even faster than new gas. My conversation with returning guests Robb Stewart (@nuclear_robb) and James Krellenstein (@jbkrell), CTO and CEO of Alva Energy (@alvaenergyio), made the case that power uprates at existing PWR plants represent the lowest-hanging fruit in the sector, bypassing the megaproject risks and nuclear supply chain rebuilding that make new nuclear construction so daunting for utilities. The components turn out to be far more manageable and anticlimactic than new build nuclear: non-safety-related secondary side equipment such as feedwater heaters and condenser tube bundles, alongside nuclear-grade steam generators that the fleet has already learned to replace during their month long scheduled outages using well-rehearsed industrial choreography. Alva’s approach avoids the traditional uprate bottleneck by building a separate standardized 250MW Second Turbine Generator Plant (2TGP) building diverting incremental steam from an uprated core without touching the existing turbine centerline. Most of the construction happens on a conventional, non nuclear island using mature supply chains and firm fixed price engineering, procurement, and construction contracts, leaving the outage window limited to a short tie in during a normal refueling cycle. Compared to a cohort of first of a kind nuclear steam supply system startups that accessed public markets through SPAC mergers and achieved substantial valuations in the hundreds of millions on compelling nuclear narratives this approach sounds deliberately boring. But perhaps boring is what our current moment demands. The question is whether the American nuclear zeitgeist can resist the allure of novelty long enough to pluck the low hanging gigawatts hiding in plain sight.

@skunx_rik @RFreshhead @stekkerauto On which experience with automotive drivetrain development do you base this assessment?

@RFreshhead @stekkerauto It can't, really. Even Formula E hasn't really led to innovations because they're not allowed to develop the important parts (motors and batteries), so best F1 could do is lead to Hybrid Innovations which are not road relevant.

as you know I'm an EV guy, but the way Formula 1 nerfed its '26 cars to be 50% electric is silly beyond belief. let those engines combust, those 22 cars driving for an hour and a half won't warm up the climate. F1 shouldn't be virtue signaling.

@realTZV @OskaArcher @CN_Nuclear_Corp Why does it need cooling towers if it's cooled by sea water?

@OskaArcher @CN_Nuclear_Corp It will include cooling towers. The cooling system will be similar to the one at Lianjiang NPP.

A new #NPP project in China is on its way: @CN_Nuclear_Corp's #Yulin #Hongling NPP in Guangxi province, 6 Hualong One (optimized version with reference Jinqimen NPP) units, received the road ticked last year for 2 units. It was first proposed in 2023. Currently preparations are ongoing to prepare early site work. Despite the plant is kind of inland, it will use seawater to cool the plant. The project is 30 km north-northwest of #Lianjiang NPP, Guangdong province.

@jschripsema @JordanHarbinger @isabelleboemeke The great irony is that thanks to radioactive medicine, 98% of patients with thyroid cancer survive. Thus, radioactive isotopes have saved more lives than they took.

If nuclear power can save the planet, why are we terrified of it? Here, Rad Future author @isabelleboemeke breaks down the science behind the stigma. Notes buff.ly/cuSeD1R Apple buff.ly/StUwz9M Spotify buff.ly/JqGQkhg Overcast buff.ly/SBp9gfW

@MOVEcharity @ErdingerAF_UK Spiderman! Is that @NikkiBartlett1 ?

We have LOVED seeing your fancy dress photos for the @ErdingerAF_UK 5KYW Challenge! For week 5 (starting tomorrow!) the theme is "Join your local 5k Your Way group". Find your nearest group: moveagainstcancer.org/5k-your-way/

@whatisnuclear It's not a Soviet titanium alloy shovel, is it?

One thing I'm thankful for in this winter storm (beyond the reliable and resilient operation of the power grid) is having this particular kind of shovel. It cuts through the 3" slabs of sleet/ice like nothing.

@RnaudBertrand Some recent bankruptcies in the wind energy sector: Sweden's largest wind farm, Markbygden Ett TPI Composites, Inc. a leading manufacturer of wind turbine blades in the US Dutch Emergya Wind Technologies  German Eno energy

China has now started installing 20MW offshore wind turbines. You just need 50 of those to match the capacity of an average 1GW nuclear plant. This might sound trivial but think for a minute how much easier it is to install a wind turbine than it is to build a nuclear plant. The latest nuclear reactor in the U.S., Vogtle Units 3 & 4, took 11 years to build. Whereas you can install a wind turbine in just two to three weeks (yes, really: researchgate.net/publication/32…) That's an insane differential: a couple of weeks vs. 11 years. With of course immense implications on costs: it's much cheaper to build, with a much safer risk profile. For one thing you start generating revenue in weeks instead of getting your capital tied up during more than a decade. As a reminder, Vogtle's cost overruns actually bankrupted Westinghouse - America's flagship nuclear company - in 2017 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westingho…). No major energy company can possibly get bankrupt over a wind turbine project. This is why, again, it's positively insane to believe that green energy is "a scam": the numbers are right there. The only scam is convincing people otherwise, which ironically favors China: they power their factories with cheap, rapidly deployed energy while we get the culture war.

@whatisnuclear I think you should be in charge of tripling nuclear energy for the US government (and funding some research as well). Building a new grid would cost more than one trillion dollars, though.

Sounds good to me. Maybe throw some big ones in with the small ones while you're at it.

@tomdawon @gaskraftwe44041 Ist das der höchste und der niedrigste SOC von jedem Tag? Da deine Batterie eher gross ist im Vergleich zum Nachtverbrauch, könntest du einen grösseren Anteil als Reserve drin lassen, z.B. 20% oder mehr.

@gaskraftwe44041 Regelungenauigkeit 🧐 Batterie war seit Mitte Nov nie mehr voll.

Rückblick: PV-Daten Dezember 2025 Produktion: 302.45 kWh (14.76 kWh/kWp) Autarkie: 24.15% Eigenverbrauch: 98.81% Verbrauch: 1’372.97 kWh PV Direktverbrauch: 199.16 kWh Batteriebezug: 90.12 kWh Netzbezug: 1’083.69 kWh Einspeisung: 3.63 kWh Wärmepumpe: 644.52 kWh #pvbuddies #bash

@whatisnuclear @HoeMechanomics Hey @grok are these mostly bots replying to Nick with nothing positive to say or just miserable humans?

@HoeMechanomics It was our repeater and he was actively interfering with our nets. Imagine someone standing in your yard with a boombox playing loud techno during your family dinner.

In February 2016, I was active on a repeater in Seattle, and we had a guy causing regular illegal interference. We got organized, set up speech diarization software, logged his appearances, and calculated probabilities. After we knew his timing, two others and I sat at high spots with handheld directional Yagi antennas to triangulate his location. I was up there, spinning around in circles in the rain at the Civil War Cemetery on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Once we realized he was mobile and what route he was on, we planned to get video of him driving by (on I-5). We heard him coming, giving me ~10 minutes to get into position. I grabbed my backpack, pre-loaded with camera and tripod, and hopped on my motorcycle. It was about 11:30pm on a Sunday night in pouring rain. On the way, I took a turn a little too fast, slid out on the newly-installed light rail tracks, and went down. Not too much damage, but the side stand broke off. Having been welded to the frame, this actually totalled the bike (though it was rideable with a center stand). I limped home, demoralized. Later, someone told us they knew who the guy was and that he was under investigation for something far more serious, and that he had like 50 guns in his apartment or something. We gave up the hunt and he eventually disappeared. We had of course opened a case with the FCC but I'm not sure they ever did anything. Good times.